Visitor Information
Jun 25, 2021·Bryan
8 Popular Ways a Smart Kiosk can Benefit your Smart City
Smart city kiosk initiatives are becoming more and more common. Every year, localities are updating the popular downtown or uptown areas where most of the foot traffic for a city takes place. City councils and commissioners are getting together to commission research grants to identify smart city initiatives in a way that is useful, meaningful, […]
Mar 12, 2021·Bryan
Podcast: Interview with Mary Rains from Discover Odessa
Listen On: Timestamps 0:00: A quick hello, how are you doing, and the energy is set to get the conversation going. 0:58: Mary tells us about her experience, her destination marketing journey, and a little bit of history about Discover Odessa. 2:50: Every destination has its own unique audience and […]
Feb 22, 2021·Satyajeet
Announcing the HootBoard Visitor Information & Destination Marketing Podcast
Listen On: It is with great excitement and enthusiasm that we introduce to you our new podcast! This is something that has been on our minds for some time, and we felt now is the right time to launch. The Destination Marketing industry has been a solid supporter of HootBoard technology pre-pandemic. The pandemic […]
Dec 17, 2020·Bryan
How to devise a content strategy and organize content for your visitor information touch screen kiosk.
We all know that moment. You set up your account, you have your kiosks public facing and looking amazing, you sit down at your desk and you think to yourself “Ok, so now what?” Now we start the brainstorming and executing how you want to organize your content, and curate it in a useful way […]
Nov 25, 2020·Bryan
Using Multilevel Collections to Build a Kiosk App – Food Specials
In this demonstration, we show you a creative way to use our multilevel collections hashtag feature. It's a great way to organize content with a hierarchal structure. It can be used in many ways, but in this example we're going to show you how to organize your content by creating food specials for your visitors. […]
Oct 1, 2020·HootBoard
Why partnering with HootBoard is an investment in the local community?
HootBoard typically works with Destination Marketing Organizations (DMOs or Travel bureaus) to provide information to and engage visitors coming into their regions. However, the DMO and local government leaders often fail to realize the value HootBoard kiosks bring to their local community. So here I attempt to list some of these benefits. Citizen Information What […]
Jun 4, 2020·HootBoard
5 Best Apps for Your Visitor Information Kiosk OR Visitor Directory
We recently published the destination marketing & visitor information Kiosk demo video (embedded below) and highlighted a few good apps for tourism information that we really like. We wanted to take the time to dig deeper into some of these apps and services that can make your visitor's information finding experience worthwhile and interesting. All […]
Nov 11, 2019·HootBoard
Bring Your Region to Life Using In-Destination Engagement
In our last blog post we talked about the challenge of controlling your region’s message in today’s ever-connected world with a population of travelers that are less and less likely likely to plan ahead – but it’s not as easy just controlling the message. When it comes to your region, you want to tell a […]
Oct 8, 2019·HootBoard
Going Beyond Google: Controlling the Message to Destination Visitors
We already know that today's traveller is becoming less likely to plan their trips in advance and more likely to make decisions on the fly. Couple that with our ever-present connection to information (via our smart-phones) and today's DMO is faced with new challenges when it comes to sharing information with today's visitors. These challenges call […]
Sep 10, 2019·HootBoard
Building a Better Visitor Experience Through In-Destination Information
In case you missed our recent blog post, the HootBoard team had the pleasure of attending and exhibiting at the Destinations International conference back in July and we were able to learn quite a bit about the trends impacting both destination marketing organizations (DMOs) and the tourism industry as a whole. In the month plus […]