"I want to visit Jiuzhaigou and see the giant pandas, but I only have two days and don't want a tight schedule. Can you help me plan it?" In the future, when traveling in Sichuan, you might be able to ask an AI for help with such requests.
On May 23, at the Yunqi Conference Chengdu Summit, the Sichuan Tourism Informatization and Application Promotion Association announced that it would launch a project called “1+1+3+300” in collaboration with Alibaba Cloud. The project aims to enable 300 tourism enterprises to utilize cloud computing, big data, and artificial intelligence technologies to comprehensively enhance the tourist experience.
TwoThe first “1” refers to Alibaba Cloud and the Sichuan Tourism Informatization and Application Promotion Association, the second “3” refers to tourism informatization service enterprises within the province, and the “300” refers to 4A and 3A level scenic spots, smart cities, characteristic towns, hotels, and other tourism-related enterprises in Sichuan.
In terms of specific implementation, the two parties will provide tourism authorities with technical support such as regional tourism industry monitoring and tourism industry operation monitoring; through tourism data analysis, they aim to achieve precise analysis of the tourism industry economy, monitor operations in real time, and drive the transformation and upgrading of the tourism destination industry.
For tourism enterprises, the two parties will also providea comprehensive set of intelligent tourism solutions. These include building intelligent access control gates, global distribution systems, and scenic area management platforms, along with other software and hardware facilities, to enable real-time daily visitor flow tracking, accurate analysis of visitor traffic, and provide data support for targeted marketing.
Alibaba Cloud’s artificial intelligenceET is also expected to be deployed at major tourist attractions in Sichuan. Previously, ET has served as an intern guide at West Lake in Hangzhou and East Lake in Wuhan, capable of answering various questions tourists may have about the attractions.
Yang Chen, secretary general of the Sichuan Tourism Informatization and Application Promotion Association, said, “We hope that through our collaboration with Alibaba Cloud, we can make Sichuan the world’s smartest tourism destination and a truly strong tourism province.”