Proceedings of the International Conference on Economic, Management, Business and Accounting, ICEMBA 2022, 17 December 2022, Tanjungpinang, Riau Islands, Indonesia

Research Article

The Motivation of Tour Guide in Using “Guidemu”: A Mobile Application-Based Tour Guide Service

Download209 downloads
  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.17-12-2022.2333295,
        author={Rizki  Adityaji and Sundring Pantja Djati and Hera  Oktadiana and Thomas Stefanus Kaihatu and Adrie  Oktavio},
        title={The Motivation of Tour Guide in Using “Guidemu”: A Mobile Application-Based Tour Guide Service},
        proceedings={Proceedings of the International Conference on Economic, Management, Business and Accounting, ICEMBA 2022, 17 December 2022, Tanjungpinang, Riau Islands, Indonesia},
        publisher={EAI},
        proceedings_a={ICEMBA},
        year={2023},
        month={6},
        keywords={mobile application; tour guide; service; motivation},
        doi={10.4108/eai.17-12-2022.2333295}
    }
    
  • Rizki Adityaji
    Sundring Pantja Djati
    Hera Oktadiana
    Thomas Stefanus Kaihatu
    Adrie Oktavio
    Year: 2023
    The Motivation of Tour Guide in Using “Guidemu”: A Mobile Application-Based Tour Guide Service
    ICEMBA
    EAI
    DOI: 10.4108/eai.17-12-2022.2333295
Rizki Adityaji1,*, Sundring Pantja Djati1, Hera Oktadiana2, Thomas Stefanus Kaihatu3, Adrie Oktavio3
  • 1: Trisakti College of Tourism, Indonesia
  • 2: James Cook University, Australia
  • 3: Ciputra Surabaya university, Indonesia
*Contact email: radityaji@ciputra.ac.id

Abstract

The advancement of technology phenomena, particularly mobile based application, creates distinctive challenges for companies that run tour guide service business. This study focuses on the development of Guidemu as a mobile application tour guide service encouraged by the idea of sharing value creation from the involved actors. One of the actors who plays an important role is the tour guide who acts as a company partner as well as the customer. Therefore, this study aims to identify tour guide motivation to utilize Guidemu application and provides recommendation for further development. In-depth interview was conducted with several tour guides from Guidemu application. This study had significant implication to Guidemu application designer in enhancing the utility and providing positive experience to the tourists. The research finding is enabled to fill the research gaps in the field of mobile application acceptance and tour guide motivation to make use of mobile application which has not been studied further.