{"id":5935,"date":"2012-07-23T01:38:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T01:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/taiwan-tourism-bureau-launches-new-travel-info-app\/"},"modified":"2012-07-23T01:38:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-23T01:38:00","slug":"taiwan-tourism-bureau-launches-new-travel-info-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2012\/07\/taiwan-tourism-bureau-launches-new-travel-info-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan Tourism Bureau launches new travel info app"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-sUpagMKA4WI\/UAyr18125xI\/AAAAAAAAXBY\/RNIJR5-WI5k\/s1600\/TTB%2BApp%2BScreen%2BShot.jpg\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-sUpagMKA4WI\/UAyr18125xI\/AAAAAAAAXBY\/RNIJR5-WI5k\/s320\/TTB%2BApp%2BScreen%2BShot.jpg\" width=\"213\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Providing one-tap access to a wealth of travel information on Taiwan, the Taiwan Tourism Bureau has made visiting this fascinating destination even easier with the launch of a new free app download.<\/p>\n<p>Designed very much with the independent traveller in mind and available in both English and Chinese, the &#8216;Tour Taiwan&#8217; app offers iOS and Android smartphone users direct access to a swag of information.<\/p>\n<p>This includes attractions, key points of interest, accommodation ranging from five star luxury hotels to the country&#8217;s huge choice of B&#038;B&#8217;s and homestays, dining, travel service centres, train and bus stations, &#8211; even information on police stations, hospitals, parking lots and where to buy petrol.<\/p>\n<p>Making things even easier the app has been organized into six separate modules as follows:<\/p>\n<p>Around Me which offers information on accommodation, shopping, restaurants, and public facilities (parking lots, MRT stations, gas stations, and train stations) all based on the user&#8217;s current location.<\/p>\n<p>Festivals which details major events taking place.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic Information offering timetable and fare and timetable search options for both the Taiwan Railway and High-Speed Train systems.<\/p>\n<p>Useful Information which includes facts and figures on travel and visitor centres around the country, hospitals and police stations.<\/p>\n<p>National Scenic Areas providing information on Taiwan&#8217;s 13 national scenic areas and nearby attractions.<\/p>\n<p>A Location Search offering directions and other information on places of interest.<\/p>\n<p>The app also features an augmented reality &#8216;Goldfinger Direction Guide&#8217; to help visitors find their way to nearby attractions, in the process giving users their own personal virtual guide.<\/p>\n<p>The app can be easily downloaded from in-phone App Stores or via the Taiwan Tourism Bureau website, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/eng.taiwan.net.tw\/\">http:\/\/eng.taiwan.net.tw<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Providing one-tap access to a wealth of travel information on Taiwan, the Taiwan Tourism Bureau has made visiting this fascinating destination even easier with the launch of a new free app download. Designed very much with the independent traveller in mind and available in both English and Chinese, the &#8216;Tour Taiwan&#8217; app offers iOS and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}