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Figure 3. As with Bicicoruña, users of the Rutas Coruña mobile app can access information on points of interest in real time and can go on
guided tours that provide information based on their location as they move about the city or create their own custom tours. Directions are also
provided based on your location (unless, perhaps, you are on the other side of the Atlantic as I was when these screenshots were taken).

Tourism and event
information can be
extremely useful
in informing the
management and
planning of
sanitation and
waste, police, and
traffic functions,
among others.

other relevant information are available whenever and wherever needed.
Additional features include deployment of virtual reality through the
smartphone apps and integration
with Google Glass, the ability to leave
comments and ratings for other visitors, request alerts on news in real
time about a specific site or tour, listen
to audio guides (based on your current
location), share information of interest
with your family and friends through
social media, download information
of interest for use offline, and more.
As is the case with any other functional vertical, tourism apps can provide similar functionality without
being integrated into an enterprise
smart city architecture, of course. But
once again, in this traditional approach to disconnected
vertical services, stand-alone apps cannot realize the benefits of this new model-or provide benefit to other city
functions that could be gained in a fully integrated
approach. Common data that would need to be stored,
managed, and processed by each separate vertical function can now be handled centrally but with security and
business rules that enable each functional vertical to

manage its own data exactly as it had
done in the legacy model. Implemented in the smart cities model, emergency managers in the city can push
information to all citizens and visitors
in the city who may be using these
apps, or even to those at one specific
tourist attraction, should the need
arise to communicate urgent public
safety information or provide other
information related to city functions.
Data collected from users of these
apps provide tourism officials and
management of each of the separate
attractions with valuable information
about visitor preferences, visitation
patterns, etc., and this information
can be used to inform planners to
enhance the visitor experience.
Shared across the enterprise, however, this information
can also inform other interested city officials who may
have a need to know for the benefit of both the visitor and
the event or attraction. Tourism and event information
can be extremely useful in informing the management
and planning of sanitation and waste, police, and traffic
functions, among others. Most of us have had the experience of attending an event where all of the trash bins are
	

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