GEORGE NEWS - George Mayor Leon van Wyk is pleased to announce a new initiative of the George Tourism Department to assist visitors and locals alike with festive safety information.
"In our preparations for this year, we will be making use of QR codes that will provide access to websites containing information on tourist activities and events, important municipal contact details as well as water and other safety tips for our visitors," he says.
"These QR codes give easy access via mobile phone, as we often don't have a brochure on hand when we most need it. This method also assists in keeping our festive season earth-friendly as we save on printing costs of various publications, as well as keeping the town clean and green."
The municipality has created QR codes for three webpages - one is a link to George Tourism for easy access to information on events, activities, accommodation etc; one is a link to the municipal website with the most important contact details any homeowner, holiday renter etc would need during the festive season and the third is a link to a visitor safety page on the municipal website that gives information on safety at our beaches, safety in our mountains as well as a list of emergency contacts.
The QR codes will be publicised extensively by means of posters up at our beach facilities, flyers handed out at roadblocks and tourism site activations to be held throughout George and on all of our municipal and tourism social media sites.
The information on the website can be updated immediately if needed and will be supplemented by the daily George Festive Monitoring Committee meetings which start off on 1 December and will be attended by municipal as well as external stakeholders such as NSRI, SAPS, SANParks and others.
The purpose of the daily meeting is to assess available resources, identify possible risks and to put in place action plans to address these risks so as not to impact on our holidaymakers.
Our goal is to ensure consistent service delivery during this busy period and to keep George running as efficiently as possible.
What is a QR code?
A QR code works similarly to bar codes at the supermarket. Each QR code consists of black squares and dots which represent different pieces of information. When scanned, the unique pattern on the bar/QR code translates into human-readable data. Scan the code using your phone's camera or make sure you have a QR code scanner app installed.
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