The invention provides a tour guide positioning system, a travel information inquiry and automatic voice guide system and a travelling method, wherein the tour guide positioning system is based on GPS and mobile base station positioning technology and is applied on PDA, PND and mobile phones with a communication function. The hardware thereof comprises equipment, such as GPS, a mobile phone, PND with the communication function and the like, and a software system comprises WINDOWS CE, WINDOWS MOBILE, SYMBIAN, LINUX operation systems as well as application software. The compound positioning self-service tour guide machine comprises seven subsystems, i.e. a travel information inquiry system, a geographic information database, a travel information database, a customer information database, an intelligent voice synthetic system, a scenery spot information database and system settings; the system also comprises wired synchronous connection built by a GPS satellite navigator and a computer with a tour guide machine carrier (portable equipment, such as a mobile phone with a GPS module, PDA, a microcomputer, a GPS navigator with the communication function and the like), so that the professional server of the internet can be accessed, or the internet can be directly accessed by a wireless communication module to download data and synchronize a travel information server set. The invention can permit users to adopt GPS with the communication function, PDA, mobile phones and PND with the communication function to realize real-time mobile digital travel and bring convenience and joy for users to travel.