his teammates a bust invest so in the latest mishap to hit ferrari after the pair collided in the last rites. you're watching news from berlin coming up next to shift to living in the digital age you can follow us on twitter at t w news all go to our website dot com i'm jarred by. i. probably will succeed in dividing us so i don't not succeed in taking the people off the streets because we're tired of this dictatorship. taking the stand global news that matters d w made from mines. i don't think that well i guess sometimes i am but i said nothing which. thinks deep into the german

culture of looking at the stereotype the question if you think the future of the country that i know the time. needed to take for this drama. it's all about a bomb i'm rachel join me for me if you haven't done t.w. post. these days more people can afford to travel than ever before i'm constantly daydreaming about my next holiday but how can you travel smart how can you help preserve the environment and sides and avoid bothering locals i want topic today on ship. tourism is booming 1400000000 people travel internationally every year half of them in europe but tourism doesn't only bring. profit places like the broth nic.

and ben is struggling to handle tourist rolls some say they have been b. is pushing out local residents and turning entire cities into giant hotels. there are sites like instagram which fuel our desire to visit and photograph memorable sites when there are more tourists than a given place or his residence can handle we speak of all the tourism can cutting edge technology help make travel friendlier for both visit does and locals we asked small travel expert lisa kinney from the german digital as association bit. this was when it comes to tourism digitalisation has great potential for enhancing sustainability to begin with it's about making information easily accessible if you can access information like real time data on tourist numbers you can regulate their movement more sustainably which means less over tourism another option is connecting smart travel options with one another this allows us to get from a to b.

more efficiently tourists have an abundance of information and can opt for more sustainable solutions. consciously choosing sustainable solutions sounds good. and here comes my favorite image of the show. great going on the road but back at home they make me take up space nobody really needs to put pressure on tourism today is smart smart tourism to me smart tourism means using the options digitalisation provides us to minimize risk as far as possible and sustainability is also important. for instance in how you get to a place services like eco passenger helped travelers compare different routes in terms of their emissions. if you want to know how to travel by train in nature africa you can visit the man in seat 61 created by rail expert mark smith from britain. if you're traveling by plane sites like atmosphere will calculate your

journeys carbon footprint and convert it into the sum needed for carbon offsetting a flight from burning to cape town would produce the equivalent of 150 euros which you could donate to climate protection projects directly on the site. other providers use a similar principle. sustainability isn't only about c o 2 it's also about social sustainability such as reforestation or education or traveling could also mean flying to the amazon to help with social projects there are people interested in that type of trip can use social b. and b. which lets you book developmental conservation projects for a stronger focus on local projects there off platforms like work away info. or simply booking accommodation there being these are greener alternatives the commissions go to support local projects the site is still in development as off most of the services are sustainable travelling. is there

a toilet and it would be great if we could expand the data networks and share data better we even have the technology to collect data as tourists. let's say i don't find a given offer very sustainable i could suggest another if we use the potential there is in the right way we can also do good. i agree but let's keep some insider secrets free of location tax maybe it's ok to not tell everyone where this field of lawson's is or it might share the fate of the poppies on lake elsinore in california so many people trampled the flowers there but the fields eventually had to be made off limits and the alternatives instead of feeding all the tourism we can make a contribution to science take these holidays snapshots they can also become part of a smart tourism data pool. tourists can contribute their photos to citizen science projects and supply. i valuable data for research on coasts animals and plants.

the university of fields coast woods project examines all types of coastlines whether cliffs mud or sat. vacation is can upload their photos and specify the exact location to the coast which website the images go into a global data bank and help scientists to better understand the risks of rising sea levels. the wild me project by an american energy 0 documents to migrate 3 parts of wildlife anyone whether tourist or researcher cannot blow photos of wild animals to the site artificial intelligence recognizes each animal bites individual traits and records the date time and location the photo was taken this allows scientists to follow migrate to repack tins and users can see where the animal they photographed

on their holiday has moved on to. anyone can take pictures of clouds with nasa's globe observer app and again help researchers. the u.s. aeronautics and space administration compares the photos and other data like time and place with their own satellite images which among other things helps them improve research on the atmosphere and climate. scientists the only ones who benefit from big data tourists going to in the city hung to china for instance tourists movements are tracked so that the city can inform visitors how crowded the location will be so 2 hour was in advance of the un world tourism organization contends that smart cities are best equipped to handle mass tourism in 2019 for the 1st time the european commission named 2 cities european capitals of smarts tourism and helsinki we went to both to see how smart technology looks in action is. in

finland. welcome to helsinki or at least to. now anyone anywhere can explore how. our head set and without travelling. the virtual duplicate capital was created by design company marketing manager lao how is showing the headset to visitors. slip it on and you can see what it's like to stand in front of helsinki cathedral in future it may even be possible for people to virtually attend concerts and exhibitions or go shopping and we are. not everyone. this is why we need to be able to. explore. the. place.

and be our travel time and the resulting c o 2 emissions those who head to helsinki and person half. decide what to do 1st among the many sites and food options the website my house provides tips purses stay noble options. then there's the question of how to get from a to b. by subway or set your own or buy a bike or with the nearest car share. the app whim allows you to search for a book and pay for the various means of transportation available in helsinki. our look at the city and said hey if i have any chance of telling my kids or my grandkids that look this is what the traffic looked like the year 2015 look at it now when people are happy they have their freedom but the city is much more much

more green it's much more convenient the nicer for people to live and. users need to only check one out to plan their journey and local residents have also been leaving their cars at home more often which is good news for helsinki as the city plans to be carbon neutral by 2035. the other european capital of small tourism is in southern france we took a tour of the city to see just how smog you can get there take a look. this guides uses through trouble and network of interconnecting alleyways corridos and stairways. it uses geolocation to lead tourists through leon's most picturesque courtyards and passages in the old town. and provides background information on the trouble along the way. deepening of the city marketing initiative only tells visitors how they can use the

app to explore the city and discover leone's inside those spots. but locals also benefits it's something that is very important to us because. it was actually. there are people living. to. treasure. but also to preserve the quality of life you have. to pay. for the creating. some works as well. another part of smartly your ease your wit these digital signs can rotate 360 degrees and share up to date information for instance some festivals visitors can connect to e.g. a work via smartphone and be guided to the. train stations especially useful for those without cars other bikes available for rent at various points around the city . of course. the concept of leo is to

give visitors a guided excursion through the city by bike instead of by told us. we like. we want to do school and to make this go over the city. respecting the months if you want to visit silently. smog tourism is designed to make a city more pleasant for those visit to get and but those who need it. it's clear that digitalization is fundamentally changing travel the reality check we can see the world's most beautiful cities without having to travel there and visit unesco world heritage sites like the cologne cathedral we can get up close to one live in the jungle and in the ocean 360 degree panorama shots give us complete

views of hotels before we book and biometrics speedup checking in at the airport but not every innovation increases efficiency but japanese robot hotel for instance fired about half its service robots because they made more work for its human staff and they say. if you're interested in finding out more check out our you tube channel well show you more small tools that can help you on your holidays you can find out which gadgets can replace your luggage and how you can talk to locals using smart devices how do you use digital tech when traveling which gadgets do you take along let us know on one of our channels i'm looking forward to hearing from you.

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