Abstract:
The tourism is the practice of individuals travelling to specific places form their native place for leisure, business,
education, medication or any other purposes. Although Smart devices and wearable devices used in tourism has
gained increasing attention, empirical investigations of smart tourist attraction (STA) from a tourist perspective
are still limited. The fundamental needs of a tourist are comfortable accommodation, reservation and other online
services, foods, tour guide / language guide to relevant places, maps and security measure. These activities are
sustained with information and communication technology with use of smart hand held devices, smart wearable
devices and IoT devices. This study figures out that, which group of devices are suitable for tourists and tourism
industry via a preliminary analysis. This analysis shows that, wearable devices are mostly suitable for tourism
depend on the factors used to analyze. Since these types of devices are useful in tourism in different circumstances
in its own way with few drawbacks. When functionalities of these devices are combined, the drawbacks can be
mitigated.
