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Abstract Over the recent years wireless technologies are gradually coming to the core of tourism suppliers’ strategies, as tools to enhance their competitiveness by maximizing productivity and saving costs. Wireless technologies can provide tools to meet the mobility needs of travellers and deliver better quality and more flexible of service. The appearance of different technologies such as wireless networks , Internet, Geographical information systems(GIS)and Global positioning systems (GPS) ,have introduced a new type of information technology called location-Based Services (LBSs). Tourism is the first industry taking advantage of LBS. The main reason for this is that tourism can intrinsically benefit from the use of mobile technology that provides new services to travelers on the move. The primary functions of LBS for tourism are usually regarded as being the localization of persons, objects, and places, routing between them, search for objects in proximity such as restaurants, shops, hotels, or points of interest, and information about traveling conditions, such as traffic-related data. Currently, mobile services facilitate the reservation of last-minute trips, rental cars, and hotels; and they provide information about changes and delays of flights and trains, offer guides on restaurants, events, and sightseeing opportunities at the destination This study focuses on exploring the importance of location-based services for tourism and analyzing the impact of applying WiMAX technology for location-based services. The objectives of this thesis are, firstly to determine the importance of location-based services for tourism, secondly to describe the difference between Wi-Fi technology and WiMAX technology, thirdly to explore the impact of WiMAX on locationbased services for tourism. To achieve these objectives the researcher used a qualitative and quantitative research (mixed research) the results of research reveals that there is appositive impact of applying WiMAX technology. |