*GMB account creation and verification are to be handled solely by the merchant with technical assistance offered by the Hong Kong Tourism Board’s appointed service provider, MapKing International Limited. HKTB’s appointed service provider, MapKing International Limited, will contact those QTS-accredited merchants that have not yet joined the Programme to follow up.įor enquiries about the Programme, please contact Tiffany Cheung from MapKing International Limited at 2544 7680. HKTB will assist in setting up and verifying a Google My Business (GMB) account and deploying a 360°-view virtual tour for one outlet per merchant on Google Maps.* This will help QTS-accredited merchants enhance their digital footprints and competitiveness.Īll QTS-accredited merchants will be automatically included in the Programme. The Programme aims to list QTS-accredited merchants on one of the world’s dominant online map platforms, Google Maps. The Hong Kong Tourism Board (“HKTB”) is pleased to announce the continuation of the Google Partnership Campaign (“the Programme”). With the extensive use of web-based tourist information, a visitor’s first impression of the destination and businesses will be formed through internet browsing. The VR/AR Africa Ecosystem annual report is one such way where we showcase companies doing great work in this space, making businesses easily identify key partners to implement their future projects.Smart tourism has become a global trend in which information technologies and smart innovations play a significant role in the tourism and hospitality industries.
We have also seen a lot of use cases in the education and tourism domains, these show that Africa is becoming an accelerator to more immersive solutions and there is no better time to jump in than now.Īt the VR/AR Association, we continuously look for ways to drive the inclusion and exposure of these technologies. In Africa, we are starting to see a lot of digital immersive solutions, from leveraging Augmented Reality (AR) to enable customers try out furniture before they make a purchase to Nigerian musical artist album launched in Virtual Reality (VR) and Virtual Human Computer Interaction Lab researching in-depth into VR for empathy. The global pandemic ramped up the use cases for immersive technologies, showing the world how significant these technologies are.
The last two years have been great for immersive technologies.
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