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Toppan Printing Co Ltd and TIS Inc announced that they would conduct a demonstration study of the “TABIDO Gourmet Guide in Yokohama”, a restaurant reservation service for foreign tourists. The guide covers 116 restaurants in Yokohama city.

Traditionally, Toppan Printing Co Ltd has developed the “TABIDO®” projects based on the concept of “Japan – a travel destination to visit many times”.

As part of this project, the tourist guide app “TABIDO®”, which can deliver multi-language information and automatically translate voice, is provided.

This time, we linked the “TABIDO® OEM” service, which allows us to develop original local applications and web development using the traveling app mechanism, with TIS’s developed restaurant reservation system to develop “TABIDO Gourmet Guide in Yokohama”, a restaurant reservation service for visiting foreign tourists.

During the period from March 2 to March 27, a demonstration experiment using the service will be conducted for restaurants in Yokohama City.

By using this service, the user can make a reservation only by inputting necessary items without making a call to the store.

The shop side can receive the input information by automatic voice of the telephone.

In addition, since the system supports two languages of Japanese and English, it is said to solve the communication problem at the time of restaurant reservation of foreign visitors to Japan.

Furthermore, by utilizing the spot data display function and route searching function of the TABIDO® OEM, information on restaurants at 116 stores in Yokohama City and route guidance to the site are also possible.

In addition to bookings, support will be provided for the smooth visit of foreign tourists to Japan who do not know how to go to restaurants.

Through these demonstrations, the two companies intend to develop new services using PDS(*) for the purpose of understanding the needs of reservation services in the tourism field and managing personal information in reservations.

(*) PDS (Personal Data Store) is a mechanism for accumulating and managing data related to individuals (including data collected and managed by other companies).

Original Text: https://ampmedia.jp/2020/03/02/toppan-tis/