Aplicativo Android para cadastro e consulta de pontos turísticos utilizando GPS

Abstract

The tourism market has become one of the largest economic activities in the world. Currently this market is the main economic activity of many locations and even some countries. The tours also started in classical age with so-called religious tourism and health tourism. There are reports that some people were moving to honor the Olympic Games in Greece taking place every four years. Over time, this market has begun to be explored with utmost professionalism and pursuit of the best strategies to exploit more effectively the regional tourist segments. Tour agencies have been created, guides received training, investments in infrastructure were made, advertisements and marketing strategies have been implemented and released. However, many times tourists prefer to travel on their own to have greater flexibility or even in order to reduce their travel costs. Pamphlets and printed maps are released to support this type of visitor, however, many times the tourist finds himself disoriented by the failure to recognize its position with respect to the map. Thus the use of technological features such as a system that shows the sights, combined with other technologies such as GPS, becomes a valuable guidance tool. Porting, the use of a system that shows a map with markers on the sights, connected to an external database and the possibility of providing Internet pages with additional information on sights, making it possible to improve the visitor experience. This study developed two applications: a server and one client.