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Design and Implementation Approaches for Location-Based, Tourism-Related Services

Design and Implementation Approaches for Location-Based, Tourism-Related Services

George Kakaletris, Dimitris Varoutas, Dimitris Katsianis, Thomas Sphicopoulos
Copyright: © 2007 |Pages: 48
ISBN13: 9781599041599|ISBN10: 1599041596|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781616927745|EISBN13: 9781599041612
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-159-9.ch005
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Kakaletris, George, et al. "Design and Implementation Approaches for Location-Based, Tourism-Related Services." Information and Communication Technologies in Support of the Tourism Industry, edited by Wayne Pease, et al., IGI Global, 2007, pp. 114-161. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-159-9.ch005

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Kakaletris, G., Varoutas, D., Katsianis, D., & Sphicopoulos, T. (2007). Design and Implementation Approaches for Location-Based, Tourism-Related Services. In W. Pease, M. Rowe, & M. Cooper (Eds.), Information and Communication Technologies in Support of the Tourism Industry (pp. 114-161). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-159-9.ch005

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Kakaletris, George, et al. "Design and Implementation Approaches for Location-Based, Tourism-Related Services." In Information and Communication Technologies in Support of the Tourism Industry, edited by Wayne Pease, Michelle Rowe, and Malcolm Cooper, 114-161. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2007. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-159-9.ch005

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Abstract

The globally observed recession of mobile services market has pushed mobile network operators into looking for opportunities to provide value added services on top of their high cost infrastructures. Recent advances in mobile positioning technologies enable services that make use of the mobile user location information, offering intuitive, attractive applications to the potential customer. Mobile tourism services are among the primary options to be considered by service providers for this new market. This chapter presents the key concepts, capabilities, and considerations of infrastructures and applications targeted to the mobile tourist, covering data and content delivery, positioning, systems’ interactions, platforms, protocols, security, and privacy as well as business modelling aspects.

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