The historical educational tourism product through game application is a technology application to promote school educational tourism through practical experiences at Hung Vuong museum.
In recent years, Phu Tho tourism industry has determined to develop school tourism to educate the heritage of the Ancestral Land region "Towards the roots" to become its own unique tourism product.
At the program, delegates, teachers, and students of Gia Cam Secondary School visited and learned about antiques and artifacts kept at the museum. At the same time, students experienced new tourism products through using smartphones and tablets connected to the internet, role-playing as historical characters, and participating in games and challenges to decode. Quizzes related to artifacts, heritage knowledge, culture, local history, and Phu Tho people.
Also in the program, the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism organized a seminar on developing school tourism products, participants included representatives of the Department of Education and Training, travel agencies, Representatives of secondary schools in Viet Tri city. At the discussion, delegates contributed ideas to improve the product as well as new development directions for this type of tourism.
Mr. Nguyen Dac Thuy - Director of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Phu Tho province said this is one of the products at Hung Vuong Museum. Building a historical education tourism product model through interactive game applications. Through this activity, students will have a favorable environment to study and research the nation's history and culture. This is a program implemented in accordance with the cooperation policy launched by the Ministry of Education and Training in coordination with the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism to educate students on history and local culture.
Through this activity, it helps children actively explore and learn about history, thereby forming love for their homeland and country, contributing to educating them to become useful citizens for society.
After the product announcement program, Hung Vuong Museum will coordinate with travel agencies to operate products to serve student groups to visit and experience. During the initial period of operation, the experience program for students is completely free.