Information technology and culture: Travel in Pskov with QR codes placed on cultural heritage sites

Cultural heritage sites in Pskov will be supplied with QR-codes. By reading this code with a special software through a smart phone or tablet camera, tourists and residents of Pskov will get access to the official tourist site of Pskov region - www.tourism.pskov.ru.

There you can get detailed information about tourist attractions, browse photos, historical pictures. Placement of QR-codes on the city's main attractions is the trend of development of tourism in the world, which allows creating a comfortable environment for residents and visitors alike.

QR-codes are already on the People's House (Pushkin Academic Drama Theatre in Pskov) and the Revenue House (the former hotel "Russia”). On the whole, such codes will be placed on 50 monuments of the city, located on the main tourist routes.