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Multimedia Mobile Travel Guide (10 PT 65BN 3HWV)
A Portuguese SME has developed an integrated multimedia travel guide that provides a personalized experience when visiting a city or a region. The guide can be used by normal PDA devices and provides its users with location based multimedia contents. The company is looking for partners for commercial agreements with technical cooperation.
Country: Portugal
Type: OFFER
Date: 28.07.2010
The common travel guides are books for tourists and travelers that provide details about a certain geographic location, the tourist destination, or itinerary.
Usually these guides are heavy and require some time to search specific Points of Interest (POIs) and the best route to take from the users' location to the desired destination.
The developed system is a multimedia travel guide that uses the GPS positioning of the user to show location based interactive multimedia content. It is possible to easily add new interactive contents to the system in different languages.
This interactive guide has the following features to provide a personalized experience for its users:
- Interactive map
- Points of interest (hotels, restaurants, museums...)
- Services
- Routes
- Events
- Add/Remove Favorites
The travel guide is extremely easy to interact and can be used in any kind of PDA with a GPS receiver.
Innovative Aspects:
The multimedia travel guide has the following characteristics:
- Easy to interact
- Location based interactive contents
- Interactive routes
- New contents and POIs can be easily added to the system
- Several categories of POIs (hotels, restaurants, museums,...)
- Multilingual facility
- Events management
- Low cost.
Degree of development:
Patents/Rights: Secret know-how
Requested Cooperation: Technical consultancy, Adaptation to specific needs
- Type of partner sought: Companies, Municipalities, Tourism Regions.
- Specific area of activity of the partner: Tourism.
- Task to be performed by the partner sought: Adaptation to specific needs.
Type of Organisation:
Status: NEW
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