At the Unihack 2024 programming competition with the theme of Digital Tourism, many ideas were nurtured and developed by students of Danang University into breakthrough digital technology products and solutions in the tourism sector; among them were the project "Hidden Gems: Application to support searching for tourist destinations" and the social networking application to share real travel experiences "Spoter - Millions of Destinations".
“Hidden Gems: Application to support searching for tourist destinations” is the project that won the championship at the final round of the Unihack 2024 competition held at the end of July 2024. This project was programmed by The Seekers team from the University of Technology (University of Danang). Student Pham Quang Nhut, project leader, said that Hidden Gems is a platform that helps users share beautiful places, delicious and quality restaurants that are little known. This is a solution to create a spread of local culture, bring tourism experiences, and contribute to enriching and diversifying tourist destinations for people and tourists. The platform was nurtured from the fact that Vietnamese and international tourists tend to search for tourist destinations on social networks but there is still no platform that meets the requirements of users. In addition, many content creators on social networking platforms have dishonest reviews, mainly advertising and following trends...
By using accumulated points, users unlock the location of the place, helping to filter out the needs and interests of a certain place; not creating a temporary wave of trends, leading to the place losing the pristine beauty and real value of an impressive tourist destination, avoiding environmental pollution. “The platform mechanism requires users to go to the check-in location directly to display genuine reviews from other users. Along with the use of artificial intelligence (AI) technology to analyze images and videos , Hidden Gems can suggest the most suitable destination for users, bringing the smartest and most convenient experience”, Quang Nhut shared.
For the project “Spoter - Millions of Destinations” of the group “Long-tailed Hamster” is a platform that helps users to share and read honest and objective reviews and comments about tourist destinations. This is the project that won the runner-up prize at Unihack 2024. Team leader Huynh Phuoc Nguyen, a student at the University of Technology, said that Spoter is an application with many differences such as a social network combined with a tourist map; suggesting destinations; posting to receive rewards... When the user clicks on the post, the tourist map will move to the requested location and display the reviews of others.
In addition, the platform helps people view content related to travel destinations and experiences, providing suggested itineraries for easy consideration and planning of trips. In addition, when posting and participating in other challenges, accounts will receive vouchers and tokens (reward points) through blockchain technology, creating travel trends and attracting users. The platform also supports the "screen" travel feature to create new destinations through 3D models digitized from real locations, providing an overview and reality, easily promoting locations, promoting new travel trends in the current independent travel trend. Technologies are integrated and used reasonably to ensure smooth and safe experience features for users.
Commenting on the above two projects, Mr. Tran Dai Quy, Head of Technology, Organizing Committee of Unihack 2024 competition, said that the Hidden Gems project was highly appreciated for its novel idea when identifying the current popular tourism needs and tastes, especially of the younger generation. The project aims to build a diverse data source on quality but little-known tourist destinations, creating opportunities for many people to access and enrich the independent travel experience of tourists. With great potential, Hidden Gems can continue to expand its scale of use into a multinational and territorial platform as well as integrate diverse types of tourism such as cuisine, culture, sports; at the same time, it is necessary to have a clear communication and promotion strategy to attract more users.
Meanwhile, “Spoter - Millions of Destinations” is a potential project with the idea of building a community through a self-guided travel application that integrates useful features with an NFT reward mechanism using blockchain technology. The Spoter project focuses on the problem of short-term travel needs of busy people to provide reasonable solutions to enhance the travel experience of this group. In the future, the project can continue to develop further by improving the recommendation feature as well as researching and building a more practical and effective application direction for the blockchain segment that the team is developing in this platform.
VIET AN
Source: http://baodanang.vn/kinhte/202409/uom-mam-cac-giai-phap-san-pham-du-lich-so-3985885/
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