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.