Virtual reality technology creates new attraction for Long An tourism industry

With 114 historical and cultural relics, over 200 festivals and many beautiful landscapes typical of the West, Long An is the gateway to the West, where many businesses choose to invest in building large-scale tourist, entertainment and recreation areas: Happyland, My Quynh Zoo, West Lakes Golf Course… Long An is also very famous for the two Vam Co rivers. The vast green cajuput forests are the place to preserve diverse flora and fauna ecosystems and are also the province’s tourist highlight. The flood season once a year in Dong Thap Muoi brings many products as well as advantages for tourism development. The system of historical relics invested in along with the heroic and brave fighting tradition is something not to be missed when coming to Long An.

In recent years, Long An province has had many investment policies, calling for investment, promoting tourism and launching many programs to make a breakthrough for the tourism industry. To meet the development needs, promote the use of information technology in promoting and introducing tourism of the province to domestic and foreign tourists and investors, the deployment of the Smart Tourism Information Portal and Application (abbreviated as the Smart Tourism System) is an essential need.

The system has a user-friendly design on multi-platform applications, website version at mylongan.vn and mobile App Long An Tourism.

After 3 years of launching, since July 2020, statistics during the pilot period showed that the number of Long An Tourism downloads was over 2,500; the number of visits to the Information Portal at https://mylongan.vn reached 92,058; the number of page views was 165,300; the number of interactions was 27,695 reviews, the number of service usage was more than 20 bookings.

The most searched and visited places include Vam Nhut Tao Relic Site, Hundred Pillar House Relic Site; Long An Monument Park…

According to the assessment from the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Long An province, in the current context, the number of accesses as above is at a modest level and has not yet fully promoted the effectiveness of the Information Portal as well as the utility of the Application. Partly because it is in the pilot phase, the Information Portal only meets the need to provide minimum information for tourists’ travel itineraries.

Long An province aims to form a synchronous tourism system from infrastructure to smart tourism services integrating applications to support tourists in building programs, booking and paying for tourism services online. Standardizing the content of destinations, products and services so that tourists can easily look up the best and most complete information through automatic updates. Updating automatic tour guide applications via smart mobile devices, applying virtual reality technology and forming a section to receive and process tourists’ feedback.

Speaking at the conference to review 3 years of implementing the Information Portal organized by the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Long An province, Vice Chairman of the People’s Committee of Long An province Pham Tan Hoa said that mylongan.vn will be supplemented with the construction and implementation of image tourism solutions for important historical sites. Thereby, providing authentic information about local culture and history; connecting subjects in the tourism value chain towards a smart tourism ecosystem; creating a specialized tourism data warehouse; building digital human resources to meet development needs, and innovating thinking about digital transformation.

Long An Province Tourism Department determined to continue to continuously improve the quality of tourism products in reality through the application of information technology, helping tourists easily search for tourist destinations, accommodation areas… creating convenience for tourists when coming to Long An.

Along with that, the Department also regularly updates information and images of tourist destinations; overcomes limitations and shortcomings in the process of implementing and operating websites, applications… promoting the introduction of beautiful images of nature and the friendliness of Long An people to domestic and foreign tourists.

All information about tourist attractions and relics can be easily found on mylongan.vn.

With just a smartphone, Tan An city residents and tourists can use mobile phones with Internet connection to scan QR codes on street name signs to see the content and meaning of street names. That is the main purpose of the Youth Project to Digitize Street Name Biographies implemented by Tan An City Youth Union in July 2023.

Accordingly, people only need to use a phone with internet connection, open the Zalo App to scan the QR code, the lookup information will be extracted into an image file showing information about the history, location, length, road boundary and biography of the famous person, historical figure whose name is given to the road. The digitization of this route includes the map location of that route as well as adjacent routes,…

Attaching QR codes below street names and public works in Tan An City not only enhances the application of information technology, but also contributes to creating more tourist highlights, creating conditions for city residents and tourists to learn about the scale of the route, local traditions, biographies of famous people and historical figures associated with the construction and development process of the country in general and Tan An City in particular.

According to the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Long An province, in the first 6 months of 2023, the province welcomed over 300,000 visitors, including 7,700 international visitors. Revenue is estimated at 174 billion VND, up 39% over the same period./.

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