Proposal for Encouraging Tourists to Stroll by Restricting Information Sharing Location to Destinations

Abstract

In this research, we aim to encourage tourists to take a walk in an area around a final destination, and so propose the restricting timing to share information on sightseeing spots. That is, we give the restriction that the sharing and the browsing of information on sightseeing spots can only be done at spots that are main destinations of tourists. The information shared at destination sightseeing spots is a sightseeing map representing the sightseeing history of a tourist. In this research, in order to verify the usefulness of our proposal, an evaluation experiment using a prototype system was conducted. In this experiment, the comparison was made between sightseeing using the general electronic map service and the proposed system. Moreover, we compared the sightseeing behaviors between the cases where the information of the tourist maps was browsed before and after sightseeing. We show that making a sightseeing history map during the sightseeing made the participants walked in the wide area, and browsing the shared history maps after the sightseeing encouraged the participants to take a walk around various places in the current and the next sightseeing.