Smart tourist for dubai city

Abstract

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.