Titanic Technology Scoops Top Award
An innovative tourism trail has won a top technology award. The ‘Belfast Titanic Trail’ – which uses the latest GPS-based technology, the Node Explorer, to take visitors ‘back to the future’ on a uniqueinteractive tour – won the Best Mobile Technology Award at the 2007 BT Goldeneye Awards.The world’s first interactive multi-media digital tourism trail, it also was short-listed in the Tourism Technology category.
Launched last August, the ‘Titanic Trail’ has proved hugely popular with visitors looking to explore Belfast through its links with its most famous creation the RMS Titanic. It leads users on a tour of the city sites associated with the Titanic story, from the grounds of City Hall to Queen’s Island, finishing by presenting them with a vision of how Titanic Quarter will look.
Using a portable, robust media player, which is both user-friendly and ultra-modern, the Node Explorer uses a combination of the latest computer technology, still images, video footage, dramatic reconstructions, text and audio clips to take users on a fully interactive trip through time – telling the story of the Titanic and the people associated with her.
The ‘Belfast Titanic Trail’ is envisaged as being the first of many such interactive tours which the council hopes to develop. “We are committed to the ongoing development of new and innovative products which will appeal to the growing number of visitors to Belfast each year,” said Councillor Diane Dodds, chairman of the council’s Tourism Sub-Committee. “The possibilities for this ground-breaking technology are virtually limitless, and it would be our hope that it can be developed to cover the entire city and offer much, much more for visitors to explore.”
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