Building a mobile tourist guide based on tourists' on-site information needs

Tourism Analysis

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 483-502

  Rasinger, Joerg ^a   Fuchs, Matthias ^a   Beer, Thomas ^a   Höpken, Wolfram ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Architectural framework; Expert surveys; Focus groups; Mobile tourist guide; Preprototyping

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863476761     PISSN: 10835423     EISSN: 19433999     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3727/108354209X12596287114255     Document Type: Article

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