Finding the ideal way to use GPS technology in tourism can be as tricky as booking the perfect vacation. Useful devices for visitors being offered at popular tourist attractions come in many forms, from handhelds that trigger to specific sites to three-wheeled mini-cars with programmed tours on board.

GPS Adventure Game Out the Window Jan 1, 2007

Looking out the window during a long car trip becomes an interactive adventure with a new GPS-based game developed by The Interactive Institute in Stockholm, Sweden.

Brunswick New Technologies Marine Electronics has sealed a deal for its Northstar 8000i Networked Navigation and Entertainment System to be the installed electronics package on three new Viking yacht models.

Shrouded in Adventure May 1, 2006

In The Shroud role-playing game, players use GPS-enabled cell phones to navigate in the real world.

Soaring Safe Lightweight Collision-Avoidance System Aug 1, 2005 By: Alan Cameron

Quick — how many life-saving decisions can you make in 18 seconds?

Got Game? GPS-Enabled Mobile Gaming Blurs the Fantasy/Reality Line Mar 1, 2005 By: Marty Whitford

Mobile gaming applications leverage location-based technology to pull players and the real world into virtual interface.

Got Game? GPS-enabled mobile gaming blurs the fantasy/reality line Mar 1, 2005 By: Marty Whitford

Mobile gaming applications leverage location-based technology to pull players and the real world into virtual interface.

Up Close and Grizzly GPS/Camera Collar Captures Bear Doings Feb 1, 2005 By: Andrew Hunter, Naser El-Sheimy, Gordon Stenhouse

Integrating a GPS receiver with image processing and geographic information systems (GIS) helps wildlife researchers see "the other side of the mountain."

Wireless in the Alps Rapid developments in mobile technology hardware and infrastructure make possible a range of new services for people on the move, particularly tourists visiting unfamiliar places. These travelers require up-to-date information and may need additional wayfinding support, or rescue in emergency situations. The PARAMOUNT project shows that GPS, combined with GSM/GPRS mobile phone technology and geographic information systems (GIS) - a grouping known as G3 - can enable these services. Mar 1, 2004 By: Erwin Löhnert, Heiko Mundle, Günter Heinrichs, Elmar Wittmann

The PARAMOUNT project developed a location-based service (LBS) prototype, focusing particularly on the needs of tourists in the Alps and Pyrenees.