Mobile Tourist System for m-Governance in Ethiopia

ABSTRACT Tourist deciding to explore a destination spontaneously and unprepared will have to walk and search on their own. This kind of investigation can be very uncomfortable as it often ends up in disarrangement. With today’s agent technology, tourists can have their own intelligent guide taking care of the whole tour organization and execution in time. This is the main objective of the Dynamic Tour Guide (DTG) - a mobile agent that selects attractions, plans an individual tour, provides navigational guidance and offers location based interpretation. Over all it consistently adapts the tour to a tourist’s specific behavior in order to provide any possible support via a mobile device. The combination of the smart phone and the internet service is the trend of the future information development and software applications. Mobile phones are the most commonly used communication tools. Using mobile phones to obtain information is not only quick, but also more convenient shortcut to improve people’s lives. In the paper we propose the software development architecture based on web services