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Victoria's High Country

Over a year in the making, Specialist Apps has worked intensively with the visionary team at Tourism North East to create the “Victoria’s High Country” App.

‘Victoria's High Country’ visitor app, a dynamic digital visitor guide and wayfinding tool that puts the latest information about everything there is to eat, see and do in the hands of visitors to Victoria’s High Country

The app gives a boost to local tourism businesses, helping to drive traffic to their business by promoting their experiences and connecting them more readily to visitors. The App provides hyper-local information allowing visitors to locate and connect with tourism experiences in the town they are staying as well as providing search and wayfinding capability enabling visitors to explore the region based on their interests and needs.

Custom Tour Module

The self guided tours engine created originally for the Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney has now become an essential component of almost every Visitor Engagement App developed by us for local councils, public attractions and tourist destinations.

Whether it be walking tours, self drive tours, hiking trails or murals and AR heritage walks, the ability to curate and create any number of tours has been a real game changer for our clients.

Now, after many months of development, I am really excited to unveil the next generation in guided tours. Our brand new Custom Tour Module allows the USER to build any number of their own tours.

Working with a leading European Guided Tours provider, this new engine will feature in the up-coming “My Battlefield Guide” App. Here’s a preview of this incredibly powerful new engine in action.

ATDW - Integration

The Australian Tourism Data Warehouse is a unique tourism content tool that offers a comprehensive, quality-assured digital content database and multi-channel distribution network for tourism marketing and destination information. ATDW supports over 90,000 tourism listings whose content is published by an expanding distributor network.

We can now provide local councils and regions with even more compelling Visitor Engagement App functionality. The ability to quickly search for local businesses, places of interest and local events drawn directly from ATDW, can be combined with other popular App features such as self guided walking tours, heritage trails and treasure hunts.

Discovery Vision

The Discovery Vision engine can be trained to recognise in real time landscape features, sculptures, murals, artworks, practically any manner or type of object (even animals and plants) with a degree of accuracy and precision that has to be seen to be believed.

The applications for this technology are phenomenal. Self guided tours and treasure hunts are just the beginning. Combined with location based AR and wayfinding this takes interpretation and understanding to an entirely new level.