Context-Awareness in Mobile Tourism Guides -- A Comprehensive Survey

Abstract

Today’s tourists expect to get personalized access to tourism information at anytime, from anywhere with any media. Mobile tourism guides provide the user with such an ubiquitous access. The prerequisite for this is the notion of customisation, requiring awareness of the applications context together with appropriate adaptation mechanisms. Currently, there is a proliferation of mobile tourism guides, proposing an unmanageable number of diverse functionalities. This paper sheds light on those approaches by identifying their strengths and weaknesses, thus providing the basis for nextgeneration mobile tourism guides. For this, an evaluation framework is used comprising detailed criteria for the two orthogonal dimensions of context and adaptation