By Xinyi Li, iChongqing news

Chongqing - As one of the significant events of Smart China Expo 2019, Smart Tourism Forum kicked off on August 27. The forum invited many experts and scholars from different cultural tourism community departments in China together to discuss the new development model of smart tourism. The international panel of guests came to focus on intelligence to help Chongqing become an internationally renowned cultural tourism destination.

Smart Tourism Forum kicked off on August to promote smart tourism in Chongqing

The forum released the 2019 Chongqing Smart Travel Blue Book to interpret Chongqing's intelligent tourism development achievements, problems and development proposals. Also, the conference launched some key projects, like Friendly Smart Tourism of Chongqing. The Tencent Cultural Tourism Association jointly with Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Tibet, Xinjiang, Gansu, Shaanxi, Qinghai, Ningxia, Chongqing, and ten other western provinces or municipalities established the Western Smart Travel Industry Alliance to enable big data, cloud computing, and culture. The tourism industry releases more energy through the superposition effect.

During the forum, ten provinces and municipalities established the Western Smart Travel Industry Alliance to enable big data, cloud computing, and culture

Focusing on Empowering Economy, Enriching Life, smart tourism is one of the highlights of the Smart China Expo this year. For example, Wulong District launched a global smart travel system themed as One Mobile Phone Tour Wulong. Through the mobile application software, visitors can explore the latest information about the tourist destination in almost every aspect, getting information on eating, hotels, shopping, and entertainment.

The exhibition booth of smart tourism in the expo center

Recently, Chongqing's smart tourism has developed rapidly. Meanwhile, Chongqing will use information technology to promote tourism services comprehensively. The city will encourage the integration of big data and innovation with the Internet.

Visitors are playing with the VR headset

Accelerating the construction of smart culture tourism supported by big data applications will lay a solid foundation for the intelligent development of cultural tourism in Chongqing. This includes new tourism services, new formats, and new models. The new forms of cultural tourism products and modern industrial formats have made the cultural tourism industry more dynamic due to the Internet's interactive and educational applications.

The intelligent housekeeper of the smart hotel

At the expo center, the smart tourism booth presents several products and achievements of smart tourism. Many tourist attractions integrate VR products with their management, to offer a more vivid attraction to visitors. Intelligent hotels reduce the capital and human cost and increase the efficiency of check-in and check-out.

To find more information about smart tourism, go to enjoy the Smart China Expo 2019 at Chongqing International Expo Center.