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Travel and tourism is an extensive sector, entailing aspects such as transportation, hospitality, accommodation, tourist destinations, local transit and city tours. The role of AR in travel apps is emerging and ever growing. Few areas where AR can efficiently play a role include:

Accommodation: Provide information to potential customers in an immersive manner, with 360-degree visual tours and display of 3D views, displayed map of hotel and city so tourist can just click on it via AR app and get know how of area.

1. Augmented destination/ City tours/ Museums: Point AR app at the tourist spot or monument and get the history of that location. E.g The National Museum of Natural History have launched the Skin and Bones app, which allows people to see a full live representation of extinct animals based on their skeletons in the museum.
2. Navigation: Maps with AR or AR apps for navigation creates as immersive experience. Think of interactive navigation and cartoon/animal characters to play with.
3. Gamification: For instance, treasure hunts and games (“The Battle for Cedar Point”, “Kim Possible’s World Showcase”, etc.) or quest apps to find hidden 3D animals.
4. Beacon and push notification: Use of AR involves the application of beacons, which operates through Bluetooth. It allows businesses and marketers to send push notifications or activate certain functions when people enter a specific location.

Tourism industry stands firmly on four whales: accommodation, transport, catering, and tourist attractions and AR can play a role in every sector to attract, engage, and assist tourists.

The possibilities that AR opens up are endless. So, if you are interested to make an AR app, one of the companies with expertise in it is Technostacks.