Use QR codes and technology applications to provide tourist information.

We start this article from travel recipes and smartphones. With the proliferation of smartphones and mobile waves, widespread wifi has opened up more opportunities to connect tourist information. That's why today's tourists easily access tourist information from many channels. Tour guides provide a person-to-person connection. And now it is supported by technology to help customers experience a more complete newness in destinations.

On every traveler's smartphone, nowadays it's easy to get a QR code scanning app. You can use the scanning feature available on Iphone or part of Zalo, Facebook. In addition, the behavior of scanning QR codes has also become more common. In Vietnam, it is promoting strong digital transformation from the Government down to localities and businesses. During campaigns to prevent the spread of COVID-19, medical declaration QR codes appeared everywhere.

1.Benefits of QR Code solution.

So with the above two ideas, we want to say that tourists in Vietnam have many favorable conditions to access the solution of scanning QR codes for tourist information. And now let's see in reality which localities are implementing this solution:

• At the event of Hue Tourism Forum in 2021, it is known that Thua Thien Hue province has researched and developed the application of QR Code technology in a comprehensive way, aiming to serve people and visitors to access information in a smart way. bright.

• In Quang Tri, Quang Tri Provincial Youth Union and Quang Tri Provincial Tourism, Trade and Investment Promotion Center launched the youth project "QR code scanning point to propagate Quang Tri tourism".

• In Ho Chi Minh City, some central routes are attached with QR codes on street name boards. Many residents and visitors expressed interest when for the first time Ho Chi Minh City applied QR code scanning to look up information about the route, helping people better understand the route and historical characters and events.

In addition, there are some more localities, attractions or museums that we have not mentioned in this article.

• The great benefit of the solution of using QR codes in tourism is as you can easily see.

• The first is to provide introductory information about the destination, provide information about the symbolic meaning at the destination, and guide the route to discover the destination.

• The second is to update what information the tourism management agency wants to send to visitors, helping to orient destination awareness as well as how to promote the destination in a quick and simple way.

• Companies with tours, services, and tourism products can be represented by QR codes, putting QR codes containing tourism marketing information on official websites.

• From QR code to using GPS mobile app is a step forward.

As above, you have seen the benefits of a QR code solution for tourism that provide more information and are easy to deploy on-site printing.

2.The limitations of QR Code solution.

But a question arises, why only a few places implement this solution. It seems that this is not commensurate with Vietnam's tourism resources. Because this QR code scanning solution also has limitations such as:

• Visitors will have to find out where to paste the printed QR code.

• Will the QR code printout be worn or faded due to weather and external impacts?

• Can the information contained in the QR code be customized, changed, and updated?

• Visitors have difficulty saving opened information when they want to review it

• QR code is suitable for small destinations and is at a disadvantage with large spaces, traveling by tourist car or among natural mountains.

This solution is convenient for visitors to use many different modes such as walking, traveling by car, train or even traveling by water. Thus, along with the QR code for tourism, the Outing Trip app is becoming an electronic narrator solution for many attractive destinations. At this point, you have envisioned the superiority of the Outing Trip application compared to the QR code printing solution.

In addition to the core and superior features of the QR code, Outing Trip also owns many professional features for the organizers and managers such as: separate accounts, customizable interface according to brand colors, update information information every time there is a change, sending online notifications to visitors, accurately managing the number of users using... these features invite you to continue to learn in the next articles.