A proposed Smart Archaeological Tourism Walk Plan: A Case Study on The Holy Family Journey in Sharkia Governorate

Abstract

The diffusion of digital technologies offers great creativity and innovation potential in all aspects of the tourism industry. Integrating advanced ICT technology with the tourism industry plays a vital role in enhancing tourism services and experiences, particularly in the archeological tourism context. This study suggests a smart walk plan that offers tourists location destination and experiences according to their preferences. In particular, tourists can express different preferences regard to the type of tourist site, the level of contention to avoid crowded sites, the accessibility and convenience of different sections of a site and the distance and congestion of the trails. From this perspective, in this paper, tourist Contention, Convenience and Accessibility-based Smart Tourism-destination Approach (footstep) is introduced to deliver visitors to the Holy places at delta Egypt using online services, believing they are always linked and do not have specialized IT skills. A tourist just needs to deploy footstep at his smart hand-held. A control unit residing on the cloud analyzes tourist current location and then recommends a tour based on tourist interests to certain places and their parts. Tourism site information and its sections. Results from footstep simulated experiments have shown that it outperforms the shortest approach to the path which suggests a tour based solely on the distance to those destinations. In addition, footstep shortest path approach to outperformance takes the consistency of network connections available over the paths chosen.