Smartphone tours are a great way to enable visitors to access detailed information about heritage sites and places at the touch of a fingertip. The tours tread lightly on a place, reducing the need for text and graphic panels. Since audio and video mastered for a Smartphone tour can be used for other purposes, the tours complement other tourism products such as brochures, websites and booklets.

Smartphone tours can either be online or offline. Online Smartphone tours use mobile data connections to link to any material on a website including text, images, sound and film footage, making it quick and easy to update content. Offline Smartphone tours use applications (‘apps’) written for each platform.

Platforms: iPhone, Android, Windows Mobile, Blackberry, Symbian
Technology: SHP creates an application tailored to your tour
Applications: Tourism, heritage sites, parks and nature reserves, cities and country towns.