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Tourism Guidance Tracking and Safety Platform

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We propose a platform for tourism Guidance Tracking and Safety (GTS) based on beacons Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), mobile device App and a central cloud server. Context information is provided to improve tourism transportation options taking into account local offer and a collaborative gamified approach is applied to share trips and advice natural trails walk. Guidance, safety is provided in remote natural walks and a case application in Madeira, island Levadas, natural trails. This work is the results of a submitted project between ICSTE-IUL and Madeira University used to create a tool to get tourism data, advice and orient tourism for ecological trails.

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The authors would like to thank “Tourism Project: Characterization, Impact and Sustainability of Madeira Tourism”, co-financed by the Operational Program of the Autonomous Region of Madeira 2014-2020 (Portaria No. 92/2015), M14-20-01-0145- FEDER-000007, and SMARTDEST, MAC/1.1b/133, of the University of Madeira.

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  1. ITI/LARSyS - Universidade da Madeira, Funchal, Portugal

    Frederica Gonçalves

  2. Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), Lisbon, Portugal

    Ana Lúcia Martins & João Carlos Ferreira

  3. Business Research Centre (BRU-IUL), Lisbon, Portugal

    Ana Lúcia Martins

  4. Information Sciences, Technologies and Architecture Research Center (ISTAR-IUL), Lisbon, Portugal

    João Carlos Ferreira

  5. Inov Inesc Inovação – Instituto de Novas Tecnologias, Lisbon, Portugal

    João Carlos Ferreira

  6. Universidade da Madeira, Funchal, Portugal

    Frederica Gonçalves, Eduardo Marques, Magno Andrade & Luís Mota

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Gonçalves, F., Martins, A.L., Ferreira, J.C., Marques, E., Andrade, M., Mota, L. (2020). Tourism Guidance Tracking and Safety Platform. In: Martins, A., Ferreira, J., Kocian, A. (eds) Intelligent Transport Systems. From Research and Development to the Market Uptake. INTSYS 2019. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 310. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38822-5_11

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