Guide for Those Planning to Purchase or Rent
Good travel agencies have already accustomed their clients to guided tours using a tour guide system. This type of equipment is used not only by large operators but also by medium and small companies, and even individual guides.
Tour guide system – a system consisting of a transmitter with a microphone and receivers with headphones. The guide speaks into the microphone, ensuring they are perfectly heard by tour members equipped with receivers. The transmitter’s range is typically 75-150 meters. The system operates on batteries or rechargeable batteries. Most tour guide systems provide one-way communication, but two-way, full-duplex systems also exist.
A tour guide system where you least expect it…
Using a tour guide set facilitates the work of guides and tour leaders, and provides the group with comfortable sightseeing and a justified sense of security. Sightseeing, whether in hustle, crowds, and noise, or in a place requiring silence (e.g., a church), is no longer a problem, as even the guide’s quiet whisper will be perfectly heard in the tourists’ headphones.
However, not everyone knows yet that tour guide systems are also simultaneous interpretation systems, including systems for increasingly common mobile interpretation – where the speaker simultaneously narrates and demonstrates – e.g., a new factory, a city, a trade fair, constantly moving with the audience.
What is important for users of a tour guide system as a mobile interpretation set is that they do not need to rely on technicians or delve into lengthy operating manuals. Both transmitters and receivers are intuitive, even trivial to operate, and even people who have trouble, for example, learning to use their own smartphone – in the case of tour guide equipment – have no problems whatsoever.
Companies, especially manufacturing ones, very often use a tour guide system for guiding tours along the production line. Such tours are often translated into more than one language, which would not be possible without the system, especially since production plants usually have a lot of noise. In such conditions, a tour guide system is useful not only for guiding and interpreting but also for conducting training or so-called study visits.
Some models of tour-guide systems can be expanded into stationary sets for handling large simultaneous interpretations during conferences.
As if that weren’t enough – these same tour guide systems are the basis for professional audio description for blind or visually impaired people during plays, film screenings, or sporting events.
Where tour guide systems are used:
- in tourism, museums
- in interpretation
- in training, workshops, seminars, study visits
- in industry – tours, training, conferences
- in events, trade fairs, business meetings
- in audio description
- in sports (coach-student communication)
One of the leading manufacturers of wireless audio transmission systems – tour guide systems – is the Taiwanese company Okayo Electronics. Over its 15 years of existence, Okayo has gained a reputation as a producer of the most reliable devices. Each model of the Okayo tour guide system is carefully profiled for a different target group.
The official representative of Okayo is MEXPO (mexpo.eu/), which has been selling tour guide and audio guide systems in Europe for over 10 years.
