I. Basic Information about Self-guided Tour Devices
(A) Equipment Introduction
Self-guided tour devices are quite practical electronic devices that play an important role in the tourism field nowadays. They mainly provide self-guided tour services for tourists and are commonly seen in tourist scenic spots, museums, art galleries and other places. Their functions are very powerful. They support multi-language voice-guided tours. Tourists can completely choose different languages according to their own needs. By operating the self-guided tour devices, they can listen to detailed explanations at any time and anywhere. Moreover, tourists can also use the buttons or touch screens on them to independently choose the exhibition areas or exhibits they are interested in for targeted explanations. In addition, self-guided tour devices also have the ability to play multimedia materials such as pictures and videos, presenting the stories behind the exhibits and their profound cultural backgrounds in a richer and more intuitive form. Usually, these self-guided tour devices are lent to tourists by scenic spots or museums.
(B) Applicable Scenarios
The applicable scenarios of self-guided tour devices are quite extensive. Whether in scenic spots or museums and other places, they can play an important role. In scenic spots, whether it is a natural scenery scenic spot, such as mountains, rivers, lakes, forest parks, etc., or a human history scenic spot, like ancient cities, ancient towns, former residences of celebrities, etc., self-guided tour devices can adapt to the corresponding tour environments and help tourists have an in-depth understanding of the characteristics, historical allusions and cultural connotations of various scenic spots. In museums, facing a wide variety of exhibits with profound cultural deposits, self-guided tour devices can also exert their advantages. They can provide tourists with detailed and professional explanations, allowing tourists to know the historical backgrounds, artistic values and related stories of the exhibits, enabling tourists to have a better experience and harvest during the visit. It can be said that no matter what type of tourist venue it is, self-guided tour devices are like silent but knowledgeable "tour guides", always ready to answer questions for tourists and help them better enjoy the fun of the tour.
II. The Convenience of Self-guided Tour Devices in Scenic Spots
(A) Enhancing Tour Autonomy
When visiting scenic spots in the past, most tourists relied on tour guides to lead the visit and had to follow fixed routes and time arrangements, and it was difficult to fully take personal interests into account. However, with the advent of self-guided tour devices nowadays, the situation is quite different. Tourists can completely get rid of their dependence on tour guides and freely choose the scenic spots they want to visit and plan their own exclusive tour routes according to their own interests. For example, tourists who are interested in historical culture can go straight to ancient buildings and historical sites that carry profound historical connotations and savor the stories in them carefully. If tourists are fond of natural scenery, they can stroll freely along the lakeside and mountain paths and stay longer at their favorite natural landscapes.
Moreover, tourists can also flexibly adjust the visiting pace according to their own time arrangements. When there is plenty of time, they can take their time and have an in-depth understanding of each scenic spot and listen to the commentary content several times. If time is limited, they can also browse quickly, only select the key parts to listen to the commentary, and adjust the listening progress at any time, truly taking the control of the tour itinerary firmly in their own hands, making the whole tour process more casual, relaxed and pleasant.
(B) Improving the Efficiency and Quality of Explanations
Self-guided tour devices perform excellently in improving the efficiency and quality of explanations. They can automatically sense the location of tourists. When tourists walk to the corresponding scenic spots, the tour devices will timely push the corresponding explanation content without the need for manual operation, which greatly improves the timeliness of obtaining information.
Moreover, the explanation scripts are all written and reviewed by professionals. The content covered is accurate and detailed, avoiding the risk of information misguidance. Tourists can hear the most accurate and professional explanations, and can have an in-depth understanding of scenic spot knowledge at any time and anywhere, knowing the historical backgrounds, artistic values and related stories behind the exhibits or scenic spots, making the tour more rewarding.
(C) Helping with Scenic Spot Management and Benefits
For scenic spots, the setting of self-guided tour devices has many benefits. On the one hand, scenic spots can save a lot of labor costs by providing self-guided tour device rental services. There is no need to hire a large number of tour guides to explain to tourists. Only a small number of staff need to be arranged to be responsible for the lending, maintenance and recycling of the tour devices.
On the other hand, this service can also bring additional income to the scenic spots. The rental fees paid by tourists will add up to a considerable amount of income over time. Meanwhile, this intelligent and modern guided tour method can also improve the service image of the scenic spots, show that the scenic spots keep up with the times, and attract more tourists to visit. In the long run, it plays a positive role in promoting the overall development of the scenic spots.
(D) Creating a Good Tour Environment
Using self-guided tour devices requires connecting earphones to listen to the explanation content. This feature cleverly reduces the noise during the tour process. In the past, when tour guides gave manual explanations, they often needed a relatively high volume to ensure that every tourist could hear clearly, which easily caused a noisy environment. However, self-guided tour devices allow tourists to enjoy the beautiful scenery in a quiet and comfortable atmosphere, better feel the unique charm of the scenic spots, improve the pleasure of the tour experience, and also avoid unnecessary interference to other tourists.
III. The Convenience of Self-guided Tour Devices in Museums
(A) Personalized Visiting Experience
When visiting museums, self-guided tour devices bring tourists a highly personalized experience. In the past, when following tour guides for collective visits, tourists had to follow a unified pace and a fixed route, and their personal interests often could not be explored in depth. But with self-guided tour devices, it is quite different. Tourists can completely browse each exhibition hall according to their own pace and interests.
For example, some tourists have a special preference for ancient calligraphy and painting exhibits. Then they can go straight to the calligraphy and painting exhibition area, stop and stay in front of precious calligraphy and painting works one by one, listen repeatedly to the content about the creation backgrounds, the lives of the authors and the artistic styles of these calligraphy and painting works in the tour devices, and deeply explore their subtleties. And if tourists are more interested in historical relics, they can also shuttle through the corresponding relic exhibition halls and savor the stories behind the ancient artifacts that bear the traces of time. Moreover, tourists can freely choose the time and number of times to listen to the explanations in front of each exhibit. If they want to know more, they can listen several times. If they think they have already grasped the relevant information, they can move on to the next exhibit at any time, truly breaking the many limitations of the traditional tour guide explanation method and making each visit to the museum meet their own needs and be full of harvest.
(B) Strengthening Knowledge Dissemination
Self-guided tour devices in museums play an important role in knowledge dissemination. The explanation content they provide is very professional, covering many aspects such as the historical backgrounds, artistic values, manufacturing techniques and related stories of the exhibits.
They comprehensively show the profound culture carried by the exhibits for tourists, allowing tourists to understand each exhibit more systematically and comprehensively, and then have a deeper understanding of the culture contained in the entire museum, realizing the effective transmission of knowledge from the exhibits to tourists and enabling the museum to better play its role as an important place for cultural dissemination.
(C) Conforming to the Development Trend
With the continuous development of modern society, self-guided tour devices increasingly demonstrate their advantages of conforming to the development trend. Firstly, they have the characteristics of environmental protection and energy conservation. Compared with traditional amplified explanation equipment, self-guided tour devices will not produce noise pollution and do not need to consume a large amount of electricity and other energy sources. They create a quiet and comfortable environment during the visit process, which also conforms to the current concept of green environmental protection.
Secondly, self-guided tour devices are usually designed to be small, lightweight and very easy to operate. Whether it is the elderly, children or foreign tourists from different countries and regions, they can easily use them. This convenience enables them to be accepted and used by a wider range of people.