A tourist guide of the old town of Hebron using smart phone

Abstract

With the recent and fast developments in technology, smart phones offer many advanced services rather than making calls, so the number of smart phone users increases day by day. User can install and run many smart phone applications that make life easier or enjoyable. One of the areas that users can benefit from smart phone applications is tourism. Many tourists visit a region or city in limited time which may not be enough to visit everywhere. So that tourists are obliged to select attractive spots. Usually they make this selection by searching web sites, magazines, or guidebooks. After the selection is made, the tourist decides the trip route which can take a lot of time. Tourists face several difficulties acting this way: information in guidebooks is mostly not up-to-date, spots are (partly) closed due to renovation and some timetables (museum, for example) are unavailable. An application that can provide valuable information to guide the tourists in their trip can be so beneficial. The goal of this application is to provide tourism and geographic services through mobile phone application that encourage tourists to travel around the city and reduce efforts and shorten the time to organize the city trip.