Smart tourist for dubai city

Smart phones have made a major impact on the lives of people leading to substantial improvements in development of mobile applications during the past few years. These days, mobile phones offer numerous capabilities in addition to conventional phone calls. Smart Tourism is one of the areas of Smart City and Smart phone applications that users can use immensely and get benefit from. Mobile tourism guides can provide a tourist with ubiquitous access to tourism information at anytime and from anywhere. To this end, an application that can guide tourists with valuable information can be very useful. The aim of our developed smart tourist application is to provide services related to tourism and geographical services that encourage tourists to travel around the city and reduce the effort and time to organize the trips. It offers access to features such as detailed travel directory, personalized daily itineraries that are automatically generated based on visitors' preferences, popularity of the points of ineterst, operating hours and location, Detailed maps and location-based navigation by public transport and micro-location based push notifications that provide rich and in depth information about the destination.

[1]  Theresa A. Pardo,et al.  Conceptualizing smart city with dimensions of technology, people, and institutions , 2011, dg.o '11.

[2]  J. Rak,et al.  Smart Cities , 2018, Computer Communications and Networks.

[3]  Dimitrios Buhalis,et al.  Conceptualising technology enhanced destination experiences , 2012 .

[4]  Kevin Ashton,et al.  That ‘Internet of Things’ Thing , 1999 .

[5]  Zheng Xiang,et al.  Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2014, ENTER 2014, Proceedings of the International Conference in Dublin, Ireland, January 21-24, 2014 , 2013, ENTER.

[6]  Ulrike Gretzel,et al.  Intelligent systems in tourism: a social science perspective , 2011 .

[7]  Wang Fang,et al.  A research on experimental system for Internet of Things major and application project , 2012, 2012 3rd International Conference on System Science, Engineering Design and Manufacturing Informatization.

[8]  Luis Muñoz,et al.  SmartSantander: Internet of Things Research and Innovation through Citizen Participation , 2013, Future Internet Assembly.

[9]  Hans Schaffers,et al.  Integrating Living Labs with Future Internet experimental platforms for co-creating services within Smart Cities , 2011, 2011 17th International Conference on Concurrent Enterprising.

[10]  J. Li,et al.  Smart city and the applications , 2011, 2011 International Conference on Electronics, Communications and Control (ICECC).

[11]  Georgios K. Ouzounis,et al.  Smart cities of the future , 2012, The European Physical Journal Special Topics.

[12]  Alberto Sanna,et al.  How to Co-Create Internet of Things-enabled Services for Smarter Cities , 2012 .

[13]  A. Tjoa,et al.  Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism , 1996, Springer Vienna.