Study of Tourist Activity Survey using Information Technology

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a method for investigating and analyzing activity information on each tourist on the basis of information technology in order to realize effective tourism promotion which is suitable for current tourism environment. GPS is employed as a device to collect activity information on each tourist, and then activity is analyzed on the basis of the position data collected by GPS. The detailed information such as the facility name in which tourist stays is required to realize effective tourism promotion. We also discuss a method for acquiring such information through the internet.