Thursday, June 5, 2008

Helping visitors to explore the city

My observations…

Visitors joining a group lead by Professional Guide react different from those who prefer to come along and pay a visit to the city on their own initiatives. I had pinpointed individuals, as well as couples and sometimes small groups within the group, who are at arms length away from their tour leader.

Probably they have lost any hope of coping with the frustrating situation. Maybe because they cannot follow because the group was too large, or felt that the information was too generic and they had missed too much and therefore they lost any hope of coping with the tour leader.

Maybe they want to take pictures and cannot keep track of what is coming next… The result is that they are unsatisfied because the return for what they had paid for, does not meet their expectations.

On the other hand, those who come along on their own, are burdened with heavy books, maybe having too small site maps to be sure that what they had previously read about in their history books correlate to what they are viewing.

The sense of disorientation is vivid in their eyes and in the way they comport themselves. The result is that they have not gained their full accomplishment from their visit.

As human beings, by nature we want to maximise in all aspects of life. We do not just want to walk aside the attractions, we want to discover the city, feel good about how we spent our time and money. We want to listen to legends and myths that characterize the city. Take pride of it, be excited and tell others about our accomplishment.

Being an engineer by profession, I wondered of how the latest technology could assist in this. So I came up with the initiative, of developing Interactive DVDs.

learn more by visiting our web site http://www.cultel.com/ or view preview from youtube


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DerPNtAUdlw