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Practical and easy-to-carry guides for tourists have been available in print for many specific location sites for a lot of years. These have served the tourists well, in particular in connection with architectural, archeological and other information-intensive places where guides are not the optimal or most convenient solution for the tourist or tour-operating service.
With the introduction of Internet services such guides were either made available as web-pages or as downloadable documents in, e.g., PDF format. However, these web-based solutions had a limitation in mobility and at-site usage. The expanded and widespread usage of mobile devices opens us a new service modality, namely ‘mobile guides’ (e.g., see proposals in www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/~kc/mguides04/pdfs/Duepmeier_Ruchter.pdf). This solution provides the portability and mobility. The structure of those guides can be both illustrative, adopted to different user categories (children, casual user, expert, etc.) and can also include voice and video components. It can also contain GSM-based information as well as augmented reality components elaborated upon below. Increased attractiveness can also be generated by using some user-friendly ‘flip-page’ service like http://www.flipcreator.net.
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Section 1.3: Modern ICT Solutions for Archeological and Architectural Tourism Operations | 1.3.2. GSM-based Route Maps and Geographically-located Information Spots |
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