Project Title
Full Title : Development of Intelligent Tour Cloud Technology
Short Title : TourCloud
Period
May. 1. 2012 ~ March 31. 2015 (3 Year Project)
Project Vision
1 Billion Travelers spent 1 Trillion dollars in 2013 and growing
roughly 3-4% every year. What is this all about?
Of course, it has big economic impact on jobs and local businesses. But
more importantly, we as travelers meet people and their culture, life
style and learn their stories now and past. Traveling allows us to
understand each other. Through the mutual understanding, we may come to
realize that we are living in a single world, a global village.
However, most travelers are greeted with "canned" experience that
are commercially exploited. Expats may make friends with locals and
discover how locals live and learn their stories gradually but most
travelers do not have time and resources for the enriched experience.
With smart mobile phones and worldwide internet connectivity, we
travelers finally have means to discover how locals live and learn their
stories, enriching our travel experience.
TourCloud project is to restructure the web contents in terms of
POI (Point of Interest) for tour and augment waypoints for tourists'
navigating the local environment so that a mobile smart devices with a
connection to the TourCloud can guide and tell stories that enrich the
tourists experience as well as logging their experience to tell their
stories and share with fellow tourists, traveling the local environment.
Project Summary
Acknowledgement
This research is supported by Ministry of culture, Sports and Tourism
(MCST) and Korea Creative Content Agency (KOCCA), under the Culture
Technology(CT) Research & Development Program 2012
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