The Compass20083 project is a sino-german cooperation, aiming at integrating advanced information technologies to create a hightech information system that helps visitors to access location-sensitive information services during the 2008 Olympic Games in their preferred language, offering a variety of service-adaptive modalities available on the mobile devices. In this paper, we demonstrate one of the COMPASS2008 services, the Smart Dining Service, to showcase the new interaction concepts between multimodality, multilingual and location-sensitive information search. 1 Overview We demonstrate in this paper that a systematic and conceptually thoughtthrough combination of multimodal input and output techniques, multilingual and crosslingual communication and location-sensitive functionalities can greatly enhance tourist assistance systems. Such a combination can yield much more than an aggregation of functionalities. Multimodal output can help the user to understand information presented ...