Development of 'Multiple Sightseeing Spots Scheduling System' and Comparison with The Existing Sightseeing Methods

摘要

Recently, foreign tourists and travelers coming to Japan is increasing explosively. In 2004, the number of the foreign visitors was approximately 6.1 million people, and it became approximately 20 million people in 2015. One of the backgrounds includes various Japanese sightseeing policies such as "Visit Japan Project" and "Cool Japan". As a result, Japan's travel and tourism competitiveness of 2015 was the ninth place, a high rank in the world. However, a problem is still left in the current Japanese sightseeing situation. For example, there are not so many stores with foreign language correspondence. And also there are not so many places where they can pay with a credit card. Furthermore, the traffic such as the subway or the buses is complicated. In current Japan, those kinds of problems are left. But, it is difficult for foreign tourists and travelers to accept them without stress. We saw if there was any way to solve the problems and uneasiness. In this research, we have developed totally a new form of sightseeing application "Multiple sightseeing spots scheduling system" as a solution for these problems and uneasiness. In this paper, we developed the application prototype, and performed the comparison experiment with the existing sightseeing methods and verified superiority of this application.