Location-based tracking for sustainable tourism.
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Issued Date
2006
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Mahidol University
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Narumon Sriratanaviriyakul (2006). Location-based tracking for sustainable tourism.. Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/32867
Title
Location-based tracking for sustainable tourism.
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Abstract
The tourist destinations can be defined as an extensive wooded area
with limited reach of utility services, commonly known as National
Parks. These are distinctive areas and are heavily covered with trees
hindering visual supervision. Monitoring of tourists and their safety by
National park officers can be undertaken while making sure that they are
exploring the designated areas and not entering prohibited areas. This is
introduced by utilizing the design behind Location-Based Technology to
use in tracking tourists roaming in various areas of the national park.
The idea is that the tracking ability of any individual tourists can be
executed and the park officers can monitor their activities and are able to
receive any types of distress signals to be designed to be incorporated
within the system. The uniqueness of this concept is the utilization of
location based technology and a Geographic Information System to
provide a transparently safe tourism tracking and monitoring system
within the park area. The proposed concept of the system illustrates how
national parks, as users, can utilize the concept to track tourists. The
system would be especially designed to accommodate sustainable tourism
and as the trend of ecotourism and the number of tourists is increasing,
such a system should prove invaluable. The ability to send a distress
signal and the ability to track individual tourists is an example of the
fundamental concept of how the system can be utilized.
The topic presented in this paper will fully explain the concept and
include the theory of Location-Based Technology and the concept of
tracking application, potential outcomes from the application and further
design considerations as add-ons to the concept, scenarios of the
application usage, and the technology requirements.