Abstract
In this paper, we explore the potential applications of Optical Wireless Communications in the tourism industry, considering both indoor and outdoor scenarios and different transmission speeds. They range from high-speed atmospheric outdoor links (Free-Space Optics (FSO)) to indoor systems based on high-speed lighting networks (known under the trade name LiFi©) or low-speed services support the Internet of Things networks, using visible light (VLC) or IR emitters, with receivers based on either on classical photodiodes or in image sensors, known as Optical Camera Communications. The avant-garde applications of this technology have been studied focusing on three possible use scenarios: the traveler himself, in what we have called TAN (Tourist Area Network); the tourist facility, which includes not only the hotel but also leisure areas (theme parks, museums, natural protected areas) or services (restaurants, shopping areas, etc.); and the entire destination, which can be both the city or the territory where the tourist is received, within the paradigm of the Smart Tourist Destination (STD). In addition to the classic services based on radio frequency and wired broadband networks, these technologies will make it possible to meet the tourist’s challenging needs, the establishment, and the destination. Besides, they cover the services imposed by the new marketing services related to location or context and feed the big data systems used to study tourist behavior.
Highlights
Hospitality and tourism have been well recognized as the most vibrant industry driving the service sector in the globalized world
This paper has presented various technological solutions based on OWC for different application environments in the tourism industry, which, together with other classic solutions, both wired and wireless based on RF systems, can provide connectivity for new smart tourist destinations
Incorporating these technologies will be carried out to modernize the tourism industry, which will be needed after the current health crisis, which will cause a significant increase in the demand for data to feed the behavioral analysis systems, part of the paradigm Internet of Behavior (IoB)
Summary
Hospitality and tourism have been well recognized as the most vibrant industry driving the service sector in the globalized world. Tourism is the third largest export sector in the world economy after chemicals and fuels [2] This industry includes travel for pleasure or business, and the marketing, management, and entertainment techniques aimed at the tourist; the areas of transport and hospitality; and the study of the effects that the tourist activity has on the city or territory where it takes place (tourist destination). The use of information and communication technologies is seen as the basic tool to incorporate solutions already present in other sectors such as logistics, security, transport, education, or health, all of them present as integral parts of the tourism industry Another factor is that, in their places of origin, travelers already enjoy a wide range of digital services, an offer that is expected to be at least similar in the destination.
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