Mobile Devices as Substitute or Supplement to Traditional Information Sources: City Tourists, Mobile Guides and GPS navigation

Ingvar Tjostheim () and Daniel R. Fesenmaier ()
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Ingvar Tjostheim: Temple University
Daniel R. Fesenmaier: Temple University

A chapter in Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2008, 2008, pp 324-335 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract New mobile phones and navigation devices are very powerful. In this paper an ethnographic approach is used to gain insight in how one of these devices, a multimedia-phone with GPS, maps and a mobile guide is used by visitors to the city of Philadelphia. An interesting finding is that some of the visitors seem to substitute traditional information sources with the navigation and map-tool on the mobile device. Also, the study documents point of capture archiving of personal experiences by use of a mobile multimedia device.

Keywords: mobile guides; narratives; tourist experience; location based services; citytourism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-211-77280-5_29

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