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Regional Information Platform and One-Segment Local Broadcast Service for Tourism Promotion and Disaster Prevention: An initial experiemt and assessment

Authors:
Tadashi Miyosawa
Hiroo Hirose
Takeshi Tsuchiya

Keywords: One-segment local broadcast service; mobile device; regional information platform; tourism; disaster prevention; data mining

Abstract:
Repeat tourists tend to gather information on their destination through mobile devices. For this reason, it is necessary to have a regional information platform that allows users to see all the information on an area in a unified format. One-segment local services in Japan are broadcasts targeted at mobile devices; however, these broadcasts are limited to a narrow area. We set out to use this service, which is currently in an experimental phase in Japan, for a large-scale event (the Lake Suwa fireworks show). Results of our experiment showed that the visitors found that this service is very useful, but also showed that it is necessary to provide the information that visitors really want. As the next step in this research, we intend implementing a regional information platform to find out the information that visitors want. And also disaster prevention information system will be implemented.

Pages: 87 to 92

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2013

Publication date: February 24, 2013

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3956

ISBN: 978-1-61208-249-3

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from February 24, 2013 to March 1, 2013