Discovery to. Subscribe to the documentary. These days more people can afford to travel than ever before im constantly daydreaming about my next holiday but how can you travel smart how can you help preserve the environment and sides and avoid bothering locals i want topics for they on ship. Tourism is booming 1400000000 people travel internationally every year. In europe but tourism doesnt. Only bring profit places like the broth make. And then is struggling to handle tourist rolls some say they have been b. Is pushing out local residents and turning entire cities into a giant hotels. Their size like instagram which fuel our desire to visit and photograph memorable sites when theyre more tourist than a given place or his residence can handle we speak of all the tourism can Cutting Edge Technology help make travel friendlier for both visitors and locals he asked small travel expert lisa kinney from the german digital as association bit. Till christmas when it comes to tourism digitalisation has Great Potential for enhancing sustainability to begin with its about making information easily accessible if you can access information like Real Time Data on tourist numbers you can regulate their movement more sustainably which means less over tourism another option is connecting smart travel options with one another this allows us to get from a to b. More efficiently tourists have an abundance of information and can opt for more Sustainable Solutions and in china consciously choosing Sustainable Solutions sounds good oh and here comes my favorite image of the show. Travel guides are great going on the road but back at home they mean to take up space nobody really needs to print versions anymore tourism today is smart not tourism to me smart tourism means using the options digitalisation provides us to minimize risk as far as possible and sustainability is also important. For instance in how you get to a Place Services like eco passenger helped travelers compare different routes in terms of their emissions. If you want to know how to travel by train in nature africa you can visit the man in seat 61 created by rail expert mark smith from brick. If youre traveling by plane sites like atmosphere it will calculate your journeys Carbon Footprint and convert it into the sum needed for carbon offsetting a frightened bird into cape town would produce the equivalent of 150. 00 euros which you could donate to climate protection projects directly on the site. Of the providers use a similar principle. Sustainability isnt only about c o 2 its also about social sustainability such as reforestation or education traveling could also mean flying to the amazon to help with social projects there are people interested in that type of trip can use social b. And b. Which lets you book developmental conservation projects for a stronger focus on local projects their off platforms like work away info. For simply booking accommodation there being decent greener alternatives the commissions go to support local projects the site is still in development as off most of the services are sustainable travelling. And it would be great if we could expand the Data Networks and share data better we even have the technology to collect data as tourists. Lets say i dont find a given offer very sustainable i could suggest another if i use the potential there isnt the right way we can also do good. I agree but lets keep some insiders secrets free of Location Tags maybe its ok to not tell everyone where this field of lawsons is or it might share the fate of the poppies on Lake Elsinore in california so many people trampled the flowers there but the fields eventually had to be made off limits and there are alternatives instead of feeding all the tourism we can make a contribution to science take these holidays naturals they can also become part of a smart tourism datable. Jurors can contribute their photos to Citizen Science project. And supply valuable data for research on coast animals sent to. The university of appeals coast which project examines all types of coastlines whether clips. Or sad. Vacation is going to upload their photos and specify the exact location to the coast which website the images go into a Global Data Bank and help scientists to better understand the risks of rising sea levels. From. The wild me project by an american ngo documented to migrate 3 parts of wildlife anyone whether tourist or researcher cannot blow photos of wild animals to the site Artificial Intelligence recognizes each animal bites individual traits and records the date time and location the photo was taken this allows scientists to follow my grade 3 practice and users can see where the animal they photographed on their holiday has moved on to. Anyone can take pictures of clouds with nasas globe observer app and again help researchers. The u. S. Aeronautics and Space Administration compares the photos and other data like time and place with their own satellite images which among other things helps them improve research on the atmosphere and climb. Scientists the only ones who benefit from big data tourists going to in the city hang to china for instance tourists movements are tracked so that the city can inform visitors how crowded the location will be say 2 hours in advance the human worlds Tourism Organisation contends that smart cities are best equipped to handle mass tourism in 2019 for the 1st time the European Commission names 2 cities European Capitals of smarts tourism and helsinki we went to both to see how the smarter knowledge looks in action is helsinki in finland. Welcome to helsinki or at least. Now anyone anywhere can explore how with a v. R. Headset and without traveling. The virtual duplicate of finlands capital was created by the zohan Company Marketing manager louv is showing the headset to visitors. Who want to. Slip it on and you can see what its like to stand in front of helsinki cathedral in future it may even be possible for people to virtually attend concerts and exhibitions or go shopping in b. R. Not everyone can afford to call me or they dont have the means to call here and this is why we need to be able to give them options to explore the city. Places. Without. Physically travelling. Visiting house and we are safe travel time and the resulting c o 2 emissions those who head to helsinki in person have to decide what to do 1st among the many sites and food options the website provides tips dana will options. Then theres the question of how to get from a to b. By subway or 6 euro or by pike or with the nearest car share. The app whim allows you to search for a book and pay for the various means of transportation available in helsinki. Or look at the city and said hey if i have any chance of telling my kids or my grandkids that look this is what the traffic looked like the year 2015 look at it now when people are happy they have their freedom but the city is much more much more green its much more convenient the nicer for people to live with. Users need to only check one out to plan their journey and local residents have also been leaving their cars at home more often which is good news for helsinki as the city plans to be Carbon Neutral by 2035. The other European Capital of small tourism is in Southern France we took a tour of the city to see just how smart you can get there take a look. At this map guides uses through leons trouble and network of interconnecting alleyways corridos and stairways. It uses geolocation to lead tourists through leons most picturesque courtyards and passages in the old town. And provides Background Information on the trouble along the way. The user name of the city Marketing Initiative only tells visitors how they can use the app to explore the city and discover leones inside those spots. But locals also benefit its something that is very important to us because. Actually there are people leaving and so. For us. To open this treasures of architecture to the public but also to preserve the quality of life of the inhabitants for example. Pays for their own lives for the creaminess for some works as well in this one. Another part of smartly all ease your weight these digital signs can rotate 360 degrees and share up to date information for instance some festivals visitors can connect to e. G. A wet bar smartphone and be guided to the bands all to parks or train stations especially useful for those without calls other bikes available for rent at various points around the city also by up of course. The comp. Bike talk is to give visitors a guided excursion through the city by bike instead of i told us. We might. Want to just go and to make this go over the city. Respecting the months if you want to visit silently. Smog tourism is designed to make a city more pleasant for those visiting it and those who need it. Its clear that digitalization is fundamentally changing travel the Virtual Reality check we can see the worlds most beautiful cities without having to travel there and visit unesco World Heritage sites like the cologne cathedral we can get up close to one live in the jungle and in the ocean 360 degree panorama shots give us complete views of hotels before we book and biometrics speedup checking in at the airport but not every innovation increases efficiency but japanese robot hotel for instance fired about half its Service Robots because they made more work for its human staff and they saved. 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