Implementing Whatsapp Сhatbot by Kerala DMO. An interesting experiment on the introduction of smart tourism technologies and improvement of communications with tourists was conducted by the tourism authorities in the state of Kerala, India. This state is popular among tourists due to its unique historical and cultural attractions, picturesque nature and excellent climate. Since a …
The world’s situation today forces people who are planning a trip first of all to think about their safety. Nowadays the most efficience and well-known resource from being infected is social distancing. Therefore, people are looking for destinations with minimal level of possible contacts. It’s all about electronic transactions and documents, contactless trips in transport, …
South Africa will recover tourism based on accurate data and analyses. The article is here. Actually data is called the new oil for a reason. If destinations manage to attract “the right” tourists, who are really interested to explore places, who responsibly and ecologically travel without an aim to save money, everybody wins: destinations, tourists …
Unfortunately an external tourism can’t supply a sufficient safety for healthy of Travellers yet. It happens mainly because of difficulties to abide social distance in airplanes, trains and cruise ships. That’s why many destinations firstly focus their attentionin on reconstruction of inner tourism.For example, the Philippine’s government focuses on innovations for a large number of …
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Thailand Tourism Authority plans to compile the perfect travel guide based on surveys of tourists who have already visited the country. In theory, this guide should meet the interests of travelers as much as possible, since it will include not only popular routes, but also hidden gems of this destination. The survey is conducted through …
Now many experts are inclined to believe that the future of the tourism industry will significantly shift towards individual tourism. Mass tourism is unable to provide the main condition for the safety of modern travel – social distancing. But individual tourism also carries risks of infection, since it does not completely exclude contacts with other …
The authorities of West Java are also concerned about the development of smart tourism. They want to develop the economy of West Java through the tourism sector, focusing on smart tourism. They see the solution to this problem in creating their own mobile application. Read the article here. However, practice shows that it is much …
Now, a lot of professionals are trying to predict how the tourism situation will develop in the near future. But forecasters from the University of Victoria at Wellington went further. They tried to predict possible scenarios for New Zealand tourism. As a result, they got 4 different scenarios of what tourism in New Zealand will …
Mallorca tourism authorities have developed a new tourism development plan for 2020-2023. The plan is quite detailed and carefully designed. It begins with an analysis of the current state. Read here. The analysis indicates that destinations which do not develop digital technology will not be able to compete with Smart destinations. Moreover, technologies should be …
Even small towns and villages are increasingly starting to use digital technology, and place virtual tours at different venues to attract tourists. There is an article about it. Of course, this is good news, but as a rule, destinations do not know well the technologies of online promotion. Consequently, the tremendous efforts to create virtual …
