Mobile application for guiding tourist activities: tourist assistant - TAIS

Author

Smirnov, Alexander ; Kashevnik, Alexey ; Shilov, Nikolay ; Teslya, Nikolay ; Shabaev, Anton

Author_Institution

SPIIRAS, St. Petersburg, Russia

fYear

2014

fDate

27-31 Oct. 2014

Firstpage

95

Lastpage

100

Abstract

The 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. Authors propose application "Tourist assistant - TAIS" that is related to "Travel Guides" category and recommends the tourist attractions around. Information about attractions is extracted from different internet sources.

Keywords

Android (operating system); Internet; classification; iOS (operating system); information retrieval; mobile computing; travel industry; Android; Internet sources; TAIS; application stores; attraction information extraction; category classification; iOS; information resources; location-based services; mobile application; mobile operation systems; mobile travel applications; tourist activities; tourist assistant; tourist attractions; travel guides; Context; Databases; Estimation; Information services; Internet; Mobile communication; Smart phones;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Open Innovations Association (FRUCT16), 2014 16th Conference of

Conference_Location

Oulu

ISSN

2305-7254

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FRUCT.2014.7000931

Filename

7000931