ISPRS-Archives The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences ISPRS-Archives Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci. 2194-9034 Copernicus Publications Göttingen, Germany 10.5194/isprs-archives-XLVI-4-W5-2021-321-2021 INVESTIGATION OF GIS BASED MOBILE ROUTE PLANNING – NAVIGATION APPLICATIONS FOR TOURISM ACTIVITIES Karaş Y. K. 1 Atay L. 2 Sevinç H. K. 3 Duru A. 4 Aksaray University, Dept. of Tourism Guidance, Faculty of Tourism, Aksaray, Turkey Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Dept. of Travel Management and Tourism Guidance, Faculty Of Tourism, Çanakkale, Turkey Sinop University, Dept. of Computer Technologies, Ayancık Vocational School, Sinop, Turkey Karabuk University, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Karabuk, Turkey 23 12 2021 XLVI-4/W5-2021 321 326 Copyright: © 2021 Y. K. Karaş et al. 2021 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this licence, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This article is available from https://isprs-archives.copernicus.org/articles/XLVI-4-W5-2021/321/2021/isprs-archives-XLVI-4-W5-2021-321-2021.html The full text article is available as a PDF file from https://isprs-archives.copernicus.org/articles/XLVI-4-W5-2021/321/2021/isprs-archives-XLVI-4-W5-2021-321-2021.pdf

Mobile devices can be used in many areas such as shopping, entertainment and education. The number of mobile applications which provides information about a city or region, helps to find route by navigation and makes accommodation plans with food and beverage suggestions, is also increasing. Since these devices are portable and have access to internet, they emerges as a new and important potential for tourism sector. In particular, the increase in the use of route planning and navigation applications, which are location based services within the scope of Geographic Information Systems, has also affected the tourism sector. Which route planning and navigation applications are used extensively by tour operators, tourist guides and individual visitors ? What are the strengths and weaknesses about these applications? Answers to such questions were sought in this study.