An Autonomous Virtual Tour Guide System for Tourists

Abstract

As we know, tourism has been and continues to be one of the most prominent industries in the world. It goes without saying that in many tourist spots there is an ever-increasing rise in the requirement of tour guides and instructors for a total exquisite experience. There are places where robots are doing the job of the tour coordinator, while somewhere else the tour is nothing but a virtual reality or augmented reality experience. In the existing system, either a human is serving the purpose of being a guide or technology is being used to some extent to develop a human-less tourist guide system. In the first case, where a human is serving the purpose of a guide, the main limitation is the knowledge of the guide and the communication capabilities of the guide because of which the tourist may get different and less factually current information about the tourist spot. In the second case, where the technology is being used to some extent to offer a system without human guide, the tourist is required to carry different electronic devices in order to get the information about the place. Carrying these electronics devices becomes cumbersome at times and therefore may not be feasible for all tourists. This research attempts to provide a system which requires only an app to be installed on the tourist’s mobile phone through which the tourist can gather all available information about the place.