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Problem Space
Often times when people go on tours, they would be brought to historical places by their travel agent/tour guide. However, people who go on vacation without tours do not have a chance to visit these interesting places as they would have no prior knowledge about them and these locations normally do not appear in travel recommendations.
In addition to that, people who have visited these unique places tend to easily forget about them once they have finished their trip. As there aren’t many websites or travel companies that recommend these locations, sooner or later, these places will be forgotten or not be paid any attention that they might get demolished or vandalised. Therefore, we are trying to preserve the history and culture of these locations/structures by creating an app that recommend users to visit these locations while providing a unique experience found nowhere else.
Based on interviews we’ve conducted with travellers from all over the world, only a few interviewees remember information/stories related to the history and culture of the places they’ve visited. This makes the preservation of history and culture ever more important as more and more people are travelling around the world but the history and culture of most countries are being forgotten.
The solution that we are proposing is an app that acts as an archive that stores information about structures and events related to the history and culture of each country. This way, travellers will have an app that would recommend places that they normally wouldn’t visit that are culturally rich. However, what we are building is not just another wiki clone, we will be enhancing the user experience adding functions to plan out the best journey for them to visit all the places they have selected on the map. On top of that, we are offering a unique AR experience that lets the users feel like they have travelled back into the past by showing them an image or video of the location/structure from the past overlaying the scenery of the current location. With this app, we hope to spread awareness about the importance of preservation of history and culture of each country and make these travellers’ experience even more memorable.