Influence of smart devices and iot applications in tourism: a survey analysis

Abstract

The tourism is the exercises of individuals travelling to and remaining in spots outside their native surrounding for leisure, business, education, medication or any other purposes for not more than one successive year. The fundamental needs of a tourist are comfortable accommodation, reservation and other online services, foods, tour guide / language guide to relevant places, maps and security measure. These activities are nourished with information and communication technology with including, smart hand held devices, smart wearable devices and IoT devices. This paper figure outs which group of devices in ICT impacts (helps) tourists and tourism industry via literature survey analysis. This study shows that, wearable devices are mostly suitable for tourism depend on the factors used to analyze. Since these types of devices are useful in tourism in different circumstances in its own way with few drawbacks. When functionalities of these devices are combined, the drawbacks can be mitigated.