Cultural Heritage Digital Presentations Tourism Mobile Development Smartphones GPS
Issue Date:
2011
Publisher:
Institute of Mathematics and Informatics Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Citation:
Digital Presentation and Preservation of Cultural and Scientific Heritage, Vol. 1, No 1, (2011), 15p-25p
Abstract:
In the digital age the internet and the ICT devices changed our daily
life and routines. It means we couldn't live without these services and devices
anywhere (work, home, holiday, etc.).
It can be experienced in the tourism sector; digital contents become key tools in
the tourism of the 21st century; they will be able to adapt the traditional tourist
guide methodology to the applications running on novel digital devices.
Tourists belong to a new generation, an "ICT generation" using innovative
tools, a new info-media to communicate. A possible direction for tourism
development is to use modern ICT systems and devices. Besides participating
in classical tours guided by travel guides, there is a new opportunity for
individual tourists to enjoy high quality ICT based guided walks prepared on
the knowledge of travel guides.
The main idea of the GUIDE@HAND service is to use reusable, and create
new tourism contents for an advanced mobile device, in order to give a
contemporary answer to traditional systems of tourism information, by
developing new tourism services based on digital contents for innovative
mobile applications. The service is based on a new concept of enhancing
territorial heritage and values, through knowledge, innovation, languages and
multilingual solutions going along with new tourists‟ “sensitiveness”.
