Costs of using a personal guide
- Salary costs: Hiring a tour guide often involves a salary or wages, benefits and other expenses related to employees. An audio guide, on the other hand, can be created and maintained for a one-off fee, without the need to pay ongoing salary expenses.
- Planning and staffing costs: With an audio guide, the tour can be available at all times, and there is no need to plan or staff tour guides. This can save on expenses related to planning and coordinating tour guide shifts.
- Training and development costs: Training tour guides can be time-consuming and expensive, especially if multiple languages or specialist skills are required. With an audio guide, training and development costs are limited to the creation and updating of the audio content.
- Insurance costs: Some companies may have to insure the tour guide, this may be a cost that is eliminated when using an audio guide.
- Equipment costs: A tour guide may require certain equipment such as a microphone and headphones, this cost is also eliminated when using an audio guide.
Personal guide vs audio guide
We compare audio guide and personal guide. What are the benefits?
Costs for using the audio guide
- Production costs: You have to create content, translate it into selected languages and have it read into different languages. In addition, you must find pictures that match the text.
- License cost: The annual license cost varies based on how much content you have in the audio guide
- Marketing: You must make the content of the audio guide visible in the same way as you make a personal guide visible.
- Equipment costs: You do not need to invest in equipment. The user has the guide on their own smartphone and listens via their own headset.
Both solutions at the same time
We have looked at when it is relevant to use both solutions at the same time.
This is how the Voice Of Norway audio guide works
- Download the Voice Of Norway app via the QR code
- The map shows the way to the places (GPS)
- The audio stories start automatically now that you are in the right place
- The stories have a professional narration
- Pictures supplement what you see
- Available all year round and around the clock
- Remember earplugs for a good listening experience
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- Deliver content on a smartphone that “everyone” has.
- Can be used to communicate all types of topics in all industries.
- Location-specific content.
- The same audio guide on a journey throughout Norway.
- Access to 1,000s of stories from all over Norway.
- Space for many languages.
- Does not disturb others, when using own headphones.
- Does not need internet.
- Contagion-friendly and available around the clock.
- Updated in real time.
- The solution does not require any intervention in nature.
- The solution is not visually polluting.
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