• DocumentCode
    579515
  • Title

    A u-tour system for a tour leader in a guided group package tour

  • Author

    Yoo, NamHyun ; Yang, SuYeong ; Jeong, Heon

  • Author_Institution
    KOSTEC, KyungNam Univ., Changwon, South Korea
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    23-26 Sept. 2012
  • Firstpage
    291
  • Lastpage
    296
  • Abstract
    “Tour” is an emotional word to lots of people. When a person decides to take a trip, one can be classified into two types of tourists, an active and passive tourist. An active tourist has to prepare everything for the satisfactory tour. On the contrary, a passive tourist who is generally inclined to use a guided group package tour prepares less something than an active tourist. Thus, much research and many attempts have been conducted to help an active tourist. In contrast, little research and few attempts have been conducted for a passive tourist in a guided group package tour. However, responsibilities of a tour leader in a guided group package tour are very important for guaranteeing satisfactory tours. In this paper, we proposed the u-Tour system which can help a tour leader and passive tourists. A tour leader can easily check the roll of tourists, and offer oral relevant information at each visiting place. Tourists can satisfactorily listen to the relevant information at each visiting place. Additionally, tourists don´t need to worry about straying from a group at unfamiliar places.
  • Keywords
    Global Positioning System; radiofrequency identification; travel industry; Global Positioning System; RFID; active tourist; guided group package tour; passive tourist; relevant information; tour leader; u-tour system; Belts; Global Positioning System; Mobile communication; Personnel; Smart phones; Wireless communication; Zigbee; GPS; RFID; USN; embedded system; intelligent user interface; mobile device; tour guide; tourism;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Wireless Technology and Applications (ISWTA), 2012 IEEE Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Bandung
  • ISSN
    2324-7843
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-2209-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISWTA.2012.6373864
  • Filename
    6373864