Information about hotels, restaurants, places to visit, maps, guided tours and offers of its main attractionsamong other things that can be accessed from the cell phone in various tourist destinations in Argentina.
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The different platforms include virtual reality tours, 360º photographic tours, explanations about public transport routes, promotions and discounts with a QR code and several of them with language options in English or Portuguese.
Furthermore, the National Meteorological Service (SMN) added an essential tool for travelers such as “SMN: Tiempo y prognosis”, also known on social networks as “The Weather App” that allows early warnings that anticipate heavy rains, storms, winds and snowfall with information from more than one hundred stations distributed throughout the country.
Buenos Aires
The province of Buenos Aires has an application called Recreo where it disseminates the free activities in the beach inns, the cultural agenda and concerts throughout the district and also proposes outings to towns, rural roads and specific circuits such as visits to lighthouses, churches , museums and theme parks, among others.
Atlantic Coast
In addition, the applications of two of its main tourist destinations stand out: the cities of Mar del Plata and Villa Gesellwith diversity of themes and offers.
Among the Mar del Plata applications, the “Turismo Mar del Plata” app, created by the Municipal Tourism Entity (Emtur), is used to find out about the entire tourist offer of the city, beaches, accommodation and gastronomy, transportation, shows, recreation, culture, events and tourist circuits, while that of “mdqmap” shows the city through a map, with tourist and social information and where users can also access the address, telephone, email, networks of each place, photos uploaded by users and comments .
In “MGP360” You can access a guide map with 360º photographs and videos and different virtual tours of the most important sites in the city, while Mybus and Hay bondi are two applications that allow you to find out which bus to take to go to a certain place and the time it takes. delay in reaching the stop or destination.
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Meanwhile, with “Mar del Plata by Bike” cyclists obtain data on the use of bike paths to travel through the city safely, quickly and responsibly and the “Mar del Plata” app is the tourist guide that provides visitors with practical and essential information to enjoy their stay.
Villa Gesell has its “Gesell Digital” application that informs about the state of beaches, tourist, cultural and commercial information was prepared by the local telephone cooperative.
There are “all the authorized tourist establishments, 80% of those that appear have their WhatsApp number to speak directly with the place,” explained Marcelo Iglesias, municipal Secretary of Tourism.
chubut
Most of the cities with a tourist profile of Chubut have applications compatible with different operating systems that provide information on places to stay, recommendations for places to visit, cultural events and gastronomic offers.
One of the first to “get on” this modality was Trelew Tourism to promote the second city in number of inhabitants, while the capital contributes with “My Rawson” tourist information, like Puerto Madryn with the “Safe Beach” application that informs about the state of the coast.
In that city, the main tourist destination of the province and head of the Peninsula Valdés region, there are also private applications illustrated with photographs for the correct location of the marine fauna that exists in the reference points, reported Télam.
Cordova
In Cordoba, the city of Villa Carlos Pazwhich has the largest number of tourist places in the province, has an app that offers alternatives in accommodation and gastronomy, tours, travel agencies, real estate, public transport and useful telephone numbers.
Villa General Belgranothe picturesque town of the Calamuchita valley offers an app with different activities to do and links to excursions, gastronomy, hotels and culture, while Miramar de Ansenuzarecently recognized as a National Park, also offers an app with different links where you can consult attractions, services and history.
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Between rivers
In Entre Ríos, the link entrerios.tur.ar allows you to visit the attractions of the province with a cultural and events agenda, accommodation, dining rooms and approved restaurants in more than 60 cities, towns, transport, history and its enogastronomic activity.
Jujuy
Jujuy, meanwhile, promotes the tourist attractions of the Quebrada de Humahuaca, the Puna, the Valleys and the Yungas from the site turismo.jujuy.gob.arhas another website aimed at those seeking exchanges with small communities in turismocomunitariojujuy.travel and recently launched the page jujuyyungas.com.ar, with maps, images and detailed information about 16 destinations that are part of the “Yungas Tourist Corridor” .
Mendoza
In Mendoza, outside of the official websites, there is the Contingencies app to know the fall of possible storms with hail, so common in summer seasons; or those of “Let’s go Mendoza” or “Mendotran”with schedules and bus stops and the classic tram, while for tourist information Mendoza Ciudad, MDZ, or “Ganas de Mendoza” stand out.
Neuquen
Neuquén allows visitors through the mobile application “Neuquén takes care of you” to obtain information on the state of the routes in the province and other usesbefore eventualities that can be found when embarking on a trip, while the wide range of tourist activities, guided tours and accommodation as well as everything related to the National Confluence Festival (from February 14 to 19) is in the app “Disfrutá”, the platform of the Neuquén Municipality’s Secretary of Tourism. The application contains information on where to sleep, eat and a schedule of activities.
Black river
In Río Negro, the city of San Carlos de Bariloche has “all the information about the destination” on its barilocheturismo.gob.ar page, with virtual assistance from “Nahuelito”the Secretary of Tourism Gastón Burlón told Télam, alluding to the name of the mythical animal that local legends say live in Lake Nahuel Huapi.
saint Louis
In San Luis, the Ministry of Tourism offers one free activity per day for tourists who sign up on their facebook “turismodesanluis”.
Santa Cruz
In Santa Cruz, the Ministry of Tourism implemented audio guides as support elements for the traveler on the 170-kilometer route of the so-called scenic route, between Los Antiguos and Lago Posadas in the northwest of the province.
This format, in addition to the brochures, provides extra information on a trip with unique views and diverse landscapes, between the Andes Mountains and Lake Buenos Aires.
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Santa Fe
Santa Fe maintains the tourism platform 4.0 vivisantafe.com at the provincial level, where certified tourist providers offer their services and manage their contentand which became the first in Ibero-America to promote and market tourism from the public sector open to operators and communes.
The Secretary of Tourism, Alejandro Grandinetti, explained that “it is a tourism purchase and sale management software but it can also be used by municipalities that manage themselves and can put their offer on that platform, thereby consolidating the offer in the province “.
The application “Rosario Tur” offers tourists tips to organize their trips through that city with interactive maps and thematic circuits with interviews, images and curious facts about local characters, as well as notifying with a notification every time during the city walk, one comes across an attraction or place of interest to visit.
Among the most popular circuits, the tour reviews the life of Che Guevara, that of Lionel Messi, which has an audio guide narrated by the journalist Alina Moine whose voice accompanies the tour from the first dribbling at the Grandoli club to his wedding.
Land of Fire
In Land of Fire, “Ushuaia turismo” is an application developed by the Secretary of Tourism of the Municipality for visitors and operators of the sector that provides information on activities, accommodation, gastronomic services and shops and it has a section to access discounts and promotions through a QR code that works in Spanish, English and Portuguese.
“Waia”, a Yamana word that expresses a city overlooking the bay, is another application dedicated to recreating the historical heritage of Ushuaia through virtual reality, developed by the Fuegian Ministry of Science and Technology; the Ushuaia Secretary of Tourism, the Ushuaia XXI Foundation and the National University of Tierra del Fuego.
This App offers a virtual map of the city with geolocated points and information on each historical site, where you can access a gallery of old images and objects developed in 3D that contribute to understanding the history of the city.
Source: Ambito
