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Urbis: A touristic virtual guide

2017 12th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI), 2017
Currently, we realize that in general tourists spend a lot of time planning their trips because they need to make the most of every moment. In this sense, technology has been a great ally, especially to make this planning as well as to adapt in the event of some unforeseen during the journey.
Ivaldir de Farias, Nelson Leitao, Marcelo M. Teixeira   +2 more
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Intelligent Mobile Tourist Guide

2013
Nowadays there is a wide range of different mobile solutions that support travelers before, during and after the trip. However, majority of these solutions focus either on recommending tourist attractions or on providing of some tourist services, but there is a lack of studies for unified approach that combines both needs.
Alexander Smirnov, Alexey Kashevnik, Sergey I. Balandin, Santa Laizane   +3 more
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Tourists Co-producing Guided Tours

Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism, 2013
The guided tour is a stigmatized tourist practice. In contrast to studies portraying sightseeing tours as an over-determined stage where tourists passively follow prescripted routes and scripts, this article also uncovers creativity, detours and productive practices.
Jonas Larsen, Jane Widtfeldt Meged
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Developing a ubiquitous tourist guide

Proceedings of the 19th Brazilian symposium on Multimedia and the web, 2013
In the tourism area, the use of mobile devices brings significant benefits, considering the associated mobility, the instant access and the quality of the tourist information provided. One of the applications in this field is the electronic tourist guide, which provide information to tourists to better enjoy their trip.
Humberto Moura, Cristiano André da Costa, Sandro Rigo, Eduardo Ferreira Silva, Jorge Victoria Barbosa, Luiz Gonzaga da Silveira, Matheus Wichman, Underlea Bruscato   +7 more
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iJADE Tourist Guide – A Mobile Location-Awareness Agent-Based System for Tourist Guiding

2005
A mobile location-awareness agent-based tourist guide system called iJADE Tourist Guide is presented. We focus on how to integrate GPS device and agent technology to provide location-awareness tourist information in mobile device. We use GPS device for locating visitor's current position, and adopt iJADE agent to retrieve nearby tourist information ...
Tony W. H. Ao Ieong, Toby H. W. Lam, Alex C. M. Lee, Raymond S. T. Lee   +3 more
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Evaluation of Mobile Tourist Guides

2008
Mobile guides have been in the spot light for the past decade or so they are becoming excessively available to tourists visiting places around the world. Most of which are to be used via a network connection on a browser based device and others as such as proprietary mobile applications, installed on-device.
Michael Kenteris, Damianos Gavalas, Daphne Economou   +2 more
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Tourist guides preparing tourists for shopping on guided tours

2022
Vedat Acar, Abdullah Tanrısevdi
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American tourists' perceptions of tourist guides in Belgrade

UTMS Journal of Economics, 2011
Although it is not one of the popular city tourism destinations of Europe, the Serbian capital, Belgrade, is visited by a substantial number of foreign tourists. Most of them are independent travelers, predominantly youth, backpackers and businessmen, but there are also those who come within tourist groups. However, organized tourist arrivals are still
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Does Physical Apperance of Tourist Guides Affect Tourist’ Satisfaction?

2020
In tourist guidance service; appearance is quite as effective as several characteristics such as communication, grammar and fluency, knowledge, and courtesy. Physical appearance becomes important from the point of tourist guidance because it is possible to make judgments about what kind of person they are and even to classify them according to how they
ESER, Seçkin, ÇAKICI, A.celil
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Tourist Guiding in Halal Tourism

2020
The growing interest in Halal tourism activity represents a prolific lens for scholars and practitioners in the tourism arena to study its concept, its role, and its potential to affect the sustainability of Halal tourism industry. The success of tourism industry is highly dependent on traveler experience with respect to customer service, experience ...
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