Title :
MyTourGuide.com: A Framework of a Location-Based services for tourism industry
Author :
Husain, Wahidah ; Dih, Lam Yih ; Yen, Heng Foo ; Jothi, Neesha
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Comput. Sci., Univ. Sains Malaysia, Minden, Malaysia
Abstract :
In this information era, tour information can be transferred freely among travelers and between travelers with tourism related business parties. However, travelers face the problem of too much and overwhelming information as there are many sources of tour information in the internet which is not filtered according to the user´s preferences. The above problems and needs are the reasons for us to propose Mytourguide with the business goal of providing solutions for travelers along tourist life cycle as well as tourism related business parties. The business model for Mytourguide is business to business (B2B) and business to customer (B2C). The main services for B2B is providing web hosting services for tourism related business parties and providing a platform for them to share and promote their business. For B2C, the unique service of Mytourguide is the Location-Based System in mobile application for travelers as well as trip planning and sharing module through Mytourguide.com tourism web portal.
Keywords :
Internet; business data processing; mobile computing; portals; travel industry; B2B; B2C; Internet; MyTourGuide.com; Web hosting services; business model; business to business; business to customer; information era; location-based services; location-based system; mobile application; tour information; tourism Web portal; tourism industry; tourism related business parties; tourist life cycle; user preferences; Business; Mobile communication; Planning; Portals; B2B model; B2C Model; Tourism Industry; location-based service; mobile application; web-hosting;
Conference_Titel :
Computer & Information Science (ICCIS), 2012 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kuala Lumpeu
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1937-9
DOI :
10.1109/ICCISci.2012.6297236