A smart destination is a destination enhanced by the Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence & the will to deliver great customer service.
To make your journey smoother & more in-depth smart destinations have developed policies such as:
- Save resources to welcome more & more people
- Synergize the artificial & natural environment
- Create a consistant web where people & information circulate easily
- Upgrade & promote traditional & local landmarks
Make your journey smoother & more in-depth
- Smart technologies helps tourists to become more aware of their environment & provide suitable alternatives.
- In this regard Augmented Reality is one of the most important, if not the most important, functionality.
- Allowing you to access real-time data on the place you are visiting or on the location you wish to reach by displaying them through CG imagery is quite possibly the 1 thing that will make your journey become futuristic.
- Gamification of travel becomes real.
- The AI assistants provides location & general information about essential city services.
- Find in a instant the closest police stations, healthcare centers, train stations, and other administrative offices.
- The same goes for restaurants, museums & other places of entertainment.
Save resources to welcome more & more people
- Resources preservation is a common financial & environmental topic, but in the case of smart destinations another aspect is added: aesthetic & attractiveness.
- All information you need are available via visually optimized apps, for more ergonomy & less information on paper.
- Energy saving is also achieved by using evolutive lighting that can adapt through Computer Vision & AI.
- Oslo is one of the leading cities in terms of lighting efficiency.
- Barcelona is making use of Internet of Thing technology & cloud computing to optimize its energy consumption.
- Carbon neutrality is a major concern of smart destination.
- It is achieved by growing a more efficient, more secure & more attractive Public transportation system.
- Prohibiting cars in the City centers & other parts of the capital to make traffic smoother is another major solution.
- Multiple parts of Tokyo, such as Ginza, have already implemented this policy.
- Cycling is popularized & solar-powered cycling spreads.
- Tokyo is a city where the use of electric vehicle gradually becomes the norm.
Synergize the artificial & natural environment
- By developing synergistic Architecture smart destinations display a new sense of aesthetic where nature & civilization benefit each other visually.
- This functionally leads to synergistic Urbanisme.
- Cities are build by taking more into account the geography & topography allowing to benefit from the specificities of each location.
- Oslo is working on a full restructuration of its urban structure, and particularly its transportation network.
- By investing in sustainable hotels & other accommodations smart destinations enhance service quality.
- The most important sustainability policies are presented through City tours where you’ll have the opportunity to try them yourself.
- It is the occasion to discover the most essential parts of the city or parts you’ve never heard of.
Create a consistant web where people & information circulate easily
- Easily reach your destination, that’s important.
- Smart destination understood it.
- Reaching your destination easily, safely & conveniently, that’s even better.
- The crowd management system developed through the use of Computer Vision & Machine Learning recognition allows all of this.
- When they are, of course, combined with a diversify public transportation system.
- Less crowded vehicles may also mean more secure circulation.
- That is why many smart destinations offer you multiple transportation means.
- Barcelona is making use of Internet of Thing technology & cloud computing to increase its transportation network safety.
- Through city apps you are sent itinerary suggestions in order to reduce traffic congestion.
- This is achieved by providing evolutive data on parking slots availability, zones to & local traffic.
- Making the country more accessible to tourists is every country’s concern.
- Making the country more accessible to tourists who don’t speak the language is a growing concern.
- Real time translation apps are essential for countries where English isn’t widely spread.
- Making destinations more accessible to the elderly & people with disabilities is also a major concern.
- Touristic agencies & destination management organization have began to address it by providing tours adapted to the specific needs.
Upgrade & promote traditional & local landmarks
- Cities tend to promote local businesses, principally local restauration & local craftsmanship.
- They also wish to display lesser known districts.
- This is achieved through the creation of public open space, mainly cultural spaces such as museums & libraries, where tourists are invited to discover the history of a particular district or landmark.
- Promoting low season visits & lowering prices is another increasingly successful strategy.
- A sustainable touristic taxation system is also developed to normalize fees differences between the cities & states.
- This last point is critical for the hostellerie industry intrinsically dependent of real estate and subsequently impacted by an efficient taxation system.
Conclusion
- Smart tourist destination are developed to make your journey more convenient.
- Wherever it’s safer & smoother thanks to computer vision.
- Or easier to navigate through the emerging Augmented reality technology.
- Finally, it makes that new country more accessible thanks to real-time translation, powered by Natural Language Processing.
- A smart destination is 1st & foremost tourist oriented.
