Grodno mobile guide to be launched in March

        The mobile guide for Grodno and Grodno District will be available for tourists in March 2015, we learned from Deputy Chairman of the Grodno Oblast department of the Belarusian Tourism and Sport Union Sergei Koleda.
       The mobile guide is the system of QR codes which will be installed at the most popular objects of the historical and cultural legacy of the region. Initially the system will comprise 40 tourist attractions in Grodno and ten attractions in Grodno District. The owners of smartphones with the access to the Internet will be able to get information about the tourist attraction by making a photo of a picture with the code. The guide will also show which tourist attractions are located nearby. The information about all facilities will be available in Russian, Belarusian, Polish, Lithuanian, English, and German. The information content of the mobile app was created by the team of historians, experts, and translators.
      In February tablets with QR codes will be installed at historical and architectural monuments, other important buildings of the oblast capital. In Grodno District tablets with the codes will be installed near the Grodno Fortress, the Augustow Canal, in Svyatsk, on the churches in Gozha, Privalka, Sopotskin.