M-tour

M-Tour facilitates the visits of people in new places by developing applications and integrating existing know-how into a mobile positioning management system to provide Location-Based Services (LBS) for the
tourism industry. Specifically, m-Tour facilitates the tourists, whether locals or foreigners by informing them about attractions, sites or commercial premises found in their way on request, while local businesses will have a new direct marketing channel available to promote their good and services.

M-Tour is integrating cutting-edge technology in developing and managing a system that allows the offering of Location Based Services (LBS) to provide targeted spatial information to mobile and PDA users (GSM / 3G) M-tour is fully compatible with i-mode technology as well.

The m-Tour project aims to meet opportunity that arises from the application of new technologies such as WAP, GPRS, UMTS, etc, that provide ubiquitous internet access through the use of 3 rd Generation (3G)
mobile communication devices.

Partners in the m-Tour project were the Ministry of Commerce, Industry & Tourism, in the GIS component and regarding the Mobile Positioning Management System, the core of the m-Tour solution, CELLOCK is in
agreement with CYTA Mobile Vodafone, the GSM operator arm of CYTA (PTT), AREEBA telecommunications a company of Investcom holdings which operates GSM mobile networks in Benin, Cyprus, Ghana, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Syria and Yemen under the AREEBA brand name.