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Abstract
Over the recent years wireless technologies are gradually coming to the
core of tourism suppliers’ strategies, as tools to enhance their competitiveness
by maximizing productivity and saving costs. Wireless technologies can
provide tools to meet the mobility needs of travellers and deliver better quality
and more flexible of service. The appearance of different technologies such as
wireless networks , Internet, Geographical information systems(GIS)and
Global positioning systems (GPS) ,have introduced a new type of information
technology called location-Based Services (LBSs). Tourism is the first industry
taking advantage of LBS. The main reason for this is that tourism can
intrinsically benefit from the use of mobile technology that provides new
services to travelers on the move. The primary functions of LBS for tourism are
usually regarded as being the localization of persons, objects, and places,
routing between them, search for objects in proximity such as restaurants,
shops, hotels, or points of interest, and information about traveling conditions,
such as traffic-related data. Currently, mobile services facilitate the reservation
of last-minute trips, rental cars, and hotels; and they provide information about
changes and delays of flights and trains, offer guides on restaurants, events, and
sightseeing opportunities at the destination This study focuses on exploring the
importance of location-based services for tourism and analyzing the impact of
applying WiMAX technology for location-based services. The objectives of
this thesis are, firstly to determine the importance of location-based services for
tourism, secondly to describe the difference between Wi-Fi technology and
WiMAX technology, thirdly to explore the impact of WiMAX on locationbased
services for tourism. To achieve these objectives the researcher used a
qualitative and quantitative research (mixed research) the results of research
reveals that there is appositive impact of applying WiMAX technology.