抄録
Route guidance information is important to visitors to tourist areas including persons who are not familiar with the area. Supplying a large amount of data may not be always helpful to the users. Therefore, the information system design has to pay attention to supplying the appropriate amount of information using a suitable layout. The primary objective of the sign system in a tourist area is to satisfy the user expectation to visit desirable attractions and use the budgeted time productively without getting lost. The analysis presented here is based on a case study using before and after data of a major tourist area that has modernized the sign system. The main focus of the analysis has been to identify the changes to circulation patterns within the site from view point of quantity and distribution of visitors getting lost.
