AIM-IT to launch first PDA Navigation Guide for Lebanon
2nd July 2007
The AIM-IT program, funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and implemented by the International Executive Service Corps (IESC), in collaboration with Lebanon’s Ministry of Tourism and Federation of Touristic Syndicates, is launching the first PDA Navigation Guide to tourism and eco-tourism sites in Lebanon, on July 10 at the Ministry of Tourism
The PDA Navigation Guide fully utilizes the power of ICT to increase the competitiveness of rural tourism by encouraging tourists discover landmarks and natural beauty hidden in rural and remote areas of Lebanon. The PDA Guide to tourism provides hand held digitized maps of Lebanon with directions and guidance to over 11,000 Points of Interests across Lebanon.
Upon launching the new GPS enabled portable guide to tourism in Lebanon, USAID / IESC, in collaboration with Federation of Touristic Syndicates, will distribute 70 PDA Navigation Guides to select tourism establishments in order to loan and distribute, free of charge, to tourists visiting Lebanon.
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