AudioConexus

AudioConexus Inc. is a Media and Entertainment company that produces audio tours and GPS tours for boats, buses, trolleys, trains, and trams. The company also provides GPS triggered Automated Next Stop Messaging and location-based advertising solutions (GPS Audio/Video Systems) for the mass transportation industry. The company has offices in Toronto and Seattle. The head office is in Toronto. The company launched the world's first wireless GPS tour system on tour boats, providing location-based audio tours in six languages simultaneously in the Thousand Islands.fact|date=March 2008

AudioConexus Inc. began as a GPS audio tour company, founded in 2006 to create audio tours utilizing Global Positioning System (GPS) technology. Audio tours are delivered in multiple languages simultaneously.

In 2007, AudioConexus launched GPS Audio Systems and GPS Video Systems for the mass-transportation industry to address the need for accessible mass-transit for the hearing and visually impaired. The company also provides solutions for location-based advertising on LCD screens and flat panel TVs.fact|date=March 2008

Notes

A GPS audio tour provides "background, context, and information on the works being viewed" (Fisher, 2004, p.49). Recently, the Economist magazine stated that "aiming such services at tourists makes sense—since people are more likely to want information when in an unfamiliar place."

References

* Fisher, Jennifer (2004), "Speeches of Display: Museum Audioguides by Artists". In Drobnick, Jim, "Aural Cultures". ISBN 0-920397-80-8.
* The Economist (2006), "Roaming holiday", from "The Economist" print edition.

External links

* [http://www.audioconexus.com/ Company website]
* [http://www.audioconexus.wordpress.com/ Multilingual Tours and Tourism Marketing Blog]