Canarian Weekly
08-02-2013, 13:10
Arona announced at FITUR its launch of new technologies.
The Mayor and the Councillor for Tourism of the Municipality, José Francisco Nino and Evelin Santos, respectively, announced that this year the municipality will launch a new mobile application containing all the Municipality information required by both travellers and residents alike, and that “it will become the municipality’s official guide for mobile devices.”
Evelin Santos explained that “these initiatives are integrated into policies and strategies of the Tourist Board, and it is encouraging investment in actions that contribute to the final integration of ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) in destination management, making the study of current trends in tourism promotion in a primary objective and a challenge to use new technologies to adapt to constant change and evolution that is experiencing the tourism sector in particular and society in general “.
This new tool, which is currently being developed, will be available, in principle, in Castilian, English and German, “although it is disseminated into other languages, such as Russian or Chinese.”
The application is designed especially for tablets and smartphones, both Apple platforms and Android devices, and it is intended “to make information available to users and a multimedia gallery with pictures and videos about the products and tourism resources of the municipality of Arona: beaches, natural areas and trails, monuments, water sports, golf, cultural centres, theme parks, festivals and concerts, as well as the accommodation offer of hotels, cottages, campsites and apartments.”
The Mayor and the Councillor for Tourism agreed that “the adaptation of resources available in the new platforms of information dissemination is a revolution in how to distribute and publicise the benefits of the municipality of Arona”
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The Mayor and the Councillor for Tourism of the Municipality, José Francisco Nino and Evelin Santos, respectively, announced that this year the municipality will launch a new mobile application containing all the Municipality information required by both travellers and residents alike, and that “it will become the municipality’s official guide for mobile devices.”
Evelin Santos explained that “these initiatives are integrated into policies and strategies of the Tourist Board, and it is encouraging investment in actions that contribute to the final integration of ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) in destination management, making the study of current trends in tourism promotion in a primary objective and a challenge to use new technologies to adapt to constant change and evolution that is experiencing the tourism sector in particular and society in general “.
This new tool, which is currently being developed, will be available, in principle, in Castilian, English and German, “although it is disseminated into other languages, such as Russian or Chinese.”
The application is designed especially for tablets and smartphones, both Apple platforms and Android devices, and it is intended “to make information available to users and a multimedia gallery with pictures and videos about the products and tourism resources of the municipality of Arona: beaches, natural areas and trails, monuments, water sports, golf, cultural centres, theme parks, festivals and concerts, as well as the accommodation offer of hotels, cottages, campsites and apartments.”
The Mayor and the Councillor for Tourism agreed that “the adaptation of resources available in the new platforms of information dissemination is a revolution in how to distribute and publicise the benefits of the municipality of Arona”
More... (http://www.canarianweekly.com/aronas-e-tourism/)