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Guidance for Location-Based Customer Engagement on AWS

Overview

This Guidance demonstrates how leaders in the travel and hospitality industry can use the capabilities of Amazon Location Service to enhance their applications with location-based functionalities. Amazon Location provides a suite of features, including interactive maps, device trackers, and geofence collections, that developers can integrate into their applications. By incorporating these location-based capabilities, travel and hospitality organizations can deliver a more personalized and contextual user experience, such as triggering real-time messages and location-specific information to customers as they enter or exit predefined geofences. This can be around a hotel, resort, or tourist attraction. They can also monitor the movements of vehicles or assets and initiate events when they enter or exit designated areas, supporting various uses like automated notifications and route optimization.

How it works

These technical details feature an architecture diagram to illustrate how to effectively use this solution. The architecture diagram shows the key components and their interactions, providing an overview of the architecture's structure and functionality step-by-step.

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