PhD candidate on Location Based Services, Entrepreneur & co-founder of G-Tours maker of Location Based Service (LBS) application such as i-Visit: a free tourism information guide to download on smartphone.

The i-Visit Platform is new distribution channel for the Tourism Industry using new technology.  It allows traveller and commercial operators to interact with each other seemlessly and also directly by providing a dynamic engagement platform where value proposition is diven by the users need and perception. in short the platform boost the marketing model of co-creation and service personlaisation using Location Based Services as the enabler. 

i-Visit mobile applications use GPS & Cell-Tower positioning as well as a pattern recoginition algorythm to deliver information that is timely, personnally and geographically relvant. It allows users to access tourism information on the go, on their own mobile devices, to do live booking, add reviews, and share information on the platform.

Location

Dunedin

Disciplines

• Information Science and Technology
• Business

Affiliation

University of Otago

Website

http://www.pierre-em.com