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With the broader application of 5-day work week scheme and expanding wellbeing trend of South Korea, increasing number of people are looking for tourism leisure activities. And the demand for tourism information has surged as well. In this situation, the internet, SNS, broadcasting and many other medial channels have been providing exponentially growing number of tourism information. In this study, smart tourism information system was produced by applying the location-based service (LBS) to provide customized information in line with user characteristics and push function on open platform with a view to activate information, culture and transactional exchanges between local entities and tourists. The system proposed herein enabled tourists to gain the information on their surroundings through a smart phone in major tour destinations and local commercial districts. The system provided more sophisticated customized smart tourism guide service via hybrid BLS method combining GPS location determination method and beacon-using micro location determination method. With the application of IoT technologies, tourism and culture contents have become utilized to the maximum extent, enabling smart tourism service. And with smart devices, tourists are expected gain great help in searching information or making decisions on destination and surrounding places, etc.