System and method for providing a travel information using a personal portable terminal

A system and a method for providing a travel information using a personal portable terminal are provided to offer a specified shop information to the personal portable terminal by communicating with IC chips attached to adjacent shops through local wireless communication and to obtain a map according to a current position through GPS of the personal portable terminal. A system for providing a travel information comprises a GPS satellite a personal portable terminal(110) and an IC chip(120). The personal portable terminal receives signals from the GPS satellite, and finds out the location of the personal portable terminal by the received signals. Wherein, the personal portable terminal comprises map data, and displays the map data on the basis of the present location. And the personal portable terminal communicates with the IC chip by using specified local wireless communication instruments such as IrDA, Bluetooth, wireless LAN, ZigBee, UWB(Ultra WideBand), etc. Unique identification data is stored in the IC chip, and the portable terminal reads out the unique identification data. Thus, the detail information about the shop which is mapped with the unique identification code is offered to a user.