Tourism Ministry to ink MoU with Google to provide user- friendly services to travellers
9 March 2013 6:32 AM IST
With an objective to provide better services to travellers, the Ministry of Tourism is all set to sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Google to provide user- friendly electronic delivery of services.
A source in the ministry confirmed this saying two of the major services used by a tourist are mapping services and video sharing services. ‘The ministry has been endeavouring to collaborate with major service providers for a long term collaboration on such projects in order to promote tourism to India and to showcase India’s technological advantage. This division had various discussions with the various agencies and has arrived at two initiatives that have potential to further the above aims,’ the source said.
Google is one of the world’s largest internet services company and is the market leader in search through the Google search engine and also pioneers in video sharing platform through Youtube.com as well as online mapping services through the Google Maps services. The Google services are available free of cost to consumers and they are market leaders in all sectors and markets they operate.
Youtube is a free video sharing website and is one of the largest websites in the world. Youtube is also owned and operated by Google. Also that Youtube has a commanding presence in almost all the key markets for India’s tourism industry. The Google Maps application is standard in almost all major smart phones and has universal application across all platforms.
For this initiative Google will create special panoramic imagery of monuments in the country and integrate them in Google’s maps products of India. This will be available for use through dedicated application interface for the incredibleindia.org website and through Google’s maps website.
An MoU will be signed between Google Incorporated and Ministry of Tourism for collaboration. This collaboration will extend to other areas of mapping services which is Google’s strength including transit mapping.
Google will provide all equipment and technical expertise for capturing such images and putting them on the websites as above.
A source in the ministry confirmed this saying two of the major services used by a tourist are mapping services and video sharing services. ‘The ministry has been endeavouring to collaborate with major service providers for a long term collaboration on such projects in order to promote tourism to India and to showcase India’s technological advantage. This division had various discussions with the various agencies and has arrived at two initiatives that have potential to further the above aims,’ the source said.
Google is one of the world’s largest internet services company and is the market leader in search through the Google search engine and also pioneers in video sharing platform through Youtube.com as well as online mapping services through the Google Maps services. The Google services are available free of cost to consumers and they are market leaders in all sectors and markets they operate.
Youtube is a free video sharing website and is one of the largest websites in the world. Youtube is also owned and operated by Google. Also that Youtube has a commanding presence in almost all the key markets for India’s tourism industry. The Google Maps application is standard in almost all major smart phones and has universal application across all platforms.
For this initiative Google will create special panoramic imagery of monuments in the country and integrate them in Google’s maps products of India. This will be available for use through dedicated application interface for the incredibleindia.org website and through Google’s maps website.
An MoU will be signed between Google Incorporated and Ministry of Tourism for collaboration. This collaboration will extend to other areas of mapping services which is Google’s strength including transit mapping.
Google will provide all equipment and technical expertise for capturing such images and putting them on the websites as above.
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