Sunday, 23 December 2012
Philippines Travel Packages - Interactive Travel Guide - Technology to Help in Your Trips
I'll look in which places having some interactive travel guidance can be more suitable, also. But as a recent invention I think it is good to talk a bit about what is it about and which benefits can it bring to have the support of an interactive travel guide during your trip, for sure you have heard something about them.
Either if you are in a museum or traveling with a campervan through a whole country, you can get this cultural immersions on your own way, instead of the need of carrying lots of books and papers to your destination to make your trip a cultural experience or needing to get a guide explaining to a crowd of people. This system detects where a tourist is and starts playing a recording teaching different cultural aspects of the place where the traveler is placed. I define an interactive travel guide as an electronic device that is aware of its position thanks to a GPS system for open wide spaces or an internal system of sensors for closed or little areas. Let's look at what we are talking about, as a starting point.
And it is an advantage for the museum guys because they don't need to pay for a tour guide, repeat explanations if they haven't understood, this allows people to go into the experience at their own speed. They have a device you connect to your ears which detects areas you cross in the museum and starts with an explanation of what it is about. Austria, i'll put the wax museum in Salzburg, as a first example. It really depend on where you are going to use it. Benefits of the system?
Or it even recommends a restaurant or a special off the beaten path place where you can spend some nice time, legends and myths, history about the place, cultural background, it includes recommendations on hot spots. It uses a GPS system that is connected to the radio of your vehicle and it starts playing a recording every time your vehicle enters any area of special interest. This device was the first one in it's class and many tourism organizations worldwide are buying the idea to improve the immersion experience to visitors, in fact. I'll put the example of a device made in New Zealand for exploring the country, if your purpose is to go on a road trip across a country for example, on the other hand.
The guys running this project have it always open for adding new places with new recordings and even ask New Zealanders to contribute with any of their personal experience in the country. You get some good advice about the places you visit and recommendations on what to do and you don't need of course any guide who travels with you in the campervan, you no longer need the help of a book for understanding more deeply any region you cross! Advantages are many.
Every time you tell the device your vehicle is stopped, in the case of New Zealand and road tours in general, ) and even incorporate some interactive functionality that could allow you to explore a certain zone with a menu every time you enter it or. This device could be combined with audiovisual material (not of course while you are driving, thinking ahead in the future, finally!
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