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Annals of Tourism Research, 1984
Abstract Social psychology can contribute to a study of tourist-guide interaction through its emphasis on the dynamics, behavior and cognitions of social situations. A conceptual contribution to the study of tourist-guide encounters can structure inquiry on the topic, thereby correcting the piecemeal nature of current research.
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Abstract Social psychology can contribute to a study of tourist-guide interaction through its emphasis on the dynamics, behavior and cognitions of social situations. A conceptual contribution to the study of tourist-guide encounters can structure inquiry on the topic, thereby correcting the piecemeal nature of current research.
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Mobile application for guiding tourist activities: tourist assistant - TAIS
Proceedings of 16th Conference of Open Innovations Association FRUCT, 2014The paper presents category classification of mobile travel applications accessible at the moment for tourists in application stores for most popular mobile operation systems (Android and iOS). The most interesting category is "Travel Guides" that combines "Information Resources" and "Location-Based Services" category.
Alexander Smirnov +4 more
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Smart Tourist Guide (Touristo)
2019Individuals travelling, frequently think that it’s hard to seek places and find nearby amenities, and this issue even looks greater when we cannot talk the neighbourhood dialect. Additionally while travelling in groups, individuals like exploring different places and may get lost, which again wind up troublesome for their companions individuals to find
M. R. Sowmya +4 more
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1994
A hypermedia model is presented for the management of extendible multimedia information envisaged for tourist applications. The information is modelled according to the object-oriented methodology and organised into aggregation and specialisation/generalisation hierarchies, containing data that can be further enriched by authorised users — typically ...
A. Tsalgatidou +4 more
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A hypermedia model is presented for the management of extendible multimedia information envisaged for tourist applications. The information is modelled according to the object-oriented methodology and organised into aggregation and specialisation/generalisation hierarchies, containing data that can be further enriched by authorised users — typically ...
A. Tsalgatidou +4 more
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Urbis: A touristic virtual guide
2017 12th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI), 2017Currently, 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 +2 more
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Intelligent Mobile Tourist Guide
2013Nowadays 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 +3 more
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Tourists Co-producing Guided Tours
Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism, 2013The 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, 2013In 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 +7 more
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iJADE Tourist Guide – A Mobile Location-Awareness Agent-Based System for Tourist Guiding
2005A 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 +3 more
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Evaluation of Mobile Tourist Guides
2008Mobile 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 +2 more
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