10 Types of Kiosks and How They're Transforming User Experiences
Explore 10 types of kiosks used across industries including retail, hospitality, and healthcare to streamline operations and enhance user interactions.
The Ultimate Guide to Museum Kiosks in 2025
Discover how museum kiosks enhance engagement, accessibility, and digital storytelling, transforming visitor experiences in 2025 cultural institutions.
How to Write Clear and Informative Tour Instructions for Your STQRY Experience
Clear and informative tour instructions are the foundation of any successful visitor experience. Whether you’re guiding users through a museum exhibit, exploring historical city landmarks, or leading them along a scenic nature walk, well-crafted instructions help users navigate and enjoy the experience seamlessly. In this guide, we’ll dive into why clear instructions matter, offer tips for crafting them effectively, and show you how to integrate these instructions into your STQRY-powered app for maximum engagement.
How to Gamify Your STQRY-Powered Experience and Boost Engagement
Gamification is an exciting and effective way to boost visitor engagement, making experiences more interactive and memorable. By integrating elements such as quizzes, scavenger hunts, and rewards, you can encourage visitors to explore further, learn more deeply, and enjoy a more immersive experience. Studies show that adding gamification strategies to your experience can boost engagement by an impressive 48%, making it a powerful tool for enhancing visitor satisfaction.
Creating Inclusive Visitor Experiences: How to Make Your Exhibits Accessible to All
In today’s world, accessibility is no longer just a nice-to-have; it’s essential for creating visitor experiences that truly include everyone. The World Health Organization reports that around 1.3 billion people live with significant disabilities, making accessible tourism a priority.
Why Multi-Region Hosting is Essential for Cultural Institutions to Ensure Data Sovereignty
As cultural institutions expand their global digital footprint, maintaining control and governance over data within specific geographic regions—referred to as data sovereignty—has become increasingly crucial. For organizations tasked with preserving cultural heritage, managing data locally ensures compliance with regional laws and safeguards sensitive cultural narratives.
Keeping Your Exhibits Current with STQRY Kiosk
In today’s fast-paced world, where information is constantly evolving, cultural and tourism destinations are finding new ways to enhance visitor engagement and keep exhibits fresh. Traditional static labels, while informative, often become outdated and need to be replaced when exhibits change or when new information becomes available. Enter STQRY Kiosk—a simple way to share knowledge and engaging insights across digital labels with the ability to update content at any moment's notice.
Shaping Travel: The Role of Technology in Creating Sustainable Experiences
In the dynamic world of tourism, one movement that has stood out and is growing in importance is sustainable tourism. As more travelers become conscious of their environmental and social impact, the demand for eco-friendly and responsible travel experiences has skyrocketed. Today’s tourists seek experiences that align with their values, particularly those centered on sustainability and ethical practices.
Digital Storytelling in Tourism: Engaging Modern Travelers
In today’s rapidly evolving travel landscape, the modern traveler is more connected, tech-savvy, and experience-driven than ever before. The rise of digital tools has reshaped how people explore the world, with travelers seeking not just destinations, but meaningful, immersive experiences that resonate on a personal level.
Enhancing Visitor Engagement with Dynamic Storytelling: Leveraging Multimedia with STQRY Kiosk
The way stories are told can significantly impact how they are remembered. As expectations of visitors evolve, so too must the methods used to engage them. Static labels may convey information, but today’s visitors are looking for experiences that are more immersive, interactive, and engaging.
Marketing Your Experience
Creating a digital experience is the first step to connecting with your visitors, but what is step number two? Step two is telling visitiors about your experience by marketing your app! However, it's not always the easiest step. Here are some marketing tips from our team!
The Future of Travel and Tourism in 2024: A Look Ahead
Seven trends for the future of travel and tourism in 2024.
Transforming Visitor Experiences with Digital App Adoption: A Step by Step Approach
How to drive awareness and adoption to help visitors get the most out of your digital app.
Getting Started with STQRY Builder: A Step-By-Step Guide
How to set up your audio guide, walking tour, or museum app in three simple steps
STQRY Kiosk: 3 Ways To Use Digital Displays for Visitor Engagement and Retention
As foot traffic rebounds and groups return to cultural and heritage institutions, digital kiosks are becoming central to visitor engagement and retention.
Introducing In-App Navigation: Integrated Wayfinding for Stop-by-Stop Navigation
With In-App Navigation, responsive turn-by-turn directions are integrated into your app, triggering geo-fenced audio elements when your visitor arrives at a stop.
FAQs: Frequently Asked Questions About STQRY and Audio Guides
Get the answers to frequently asked questions about STQRY, mobile audio guides, and other digital experiences for museums and cultural sites.
12 Best Software Tools for the Tourism Industry
There are a variety of software platforms for the tourism industry, including audio guide apps, CRMs, operations platforms, and more.
6 Types of Visitor Experience Software for Museums & Parks
Try this visitor experience software to help you provide a more engaging and meaningful experience for your visitors.
Guide to Museum Audio Tour Equipment & Which to Choose
Museum audio tour equipment is essential for allowing visitors to explore your museum at their own pace and engage with the content they’re most interested in.
8 Top Technology Trends for Museums in 2023
No matter where you’re at—whether that’s implementing cloud-based tech for the first time or bending AR to your will—we’ve got insights into the top museum tech for 2023.
Take a look at the trends that will power museums next year and how you can make them your own.
8 Best Practices for Creating Museum Displays
With museum displays, you can share just about any type of content or information with your visitors. But with all of that potential, there are plenty of pitfalls to avoid. To help you navigate the right formats and decisions along the way, we’ve curated a list of the best practices to follow when developing your own museum displays.
Does Mobile Tech Positively Impact the On-Site Visitor Experience?
Museums, cultural sites, and other attractions are offering mobile apps and mobile tour guide experiences to engage visitors before, during, and after their trips. But do these apps and mobile-friendly sites actually have a positive impact on the visitor experience? Read more to find out.
5 Types of Park Management Software
Park management software is a must-have for tracking maintenance work, staff hours, and rentals. Different platforms can also be used to craft a stellar visitor experience and to attract more visitors to your park. As the saying goes, there’s an app for that.
How to Craft a Visitor Experience Strategy
A visitor experience strategy is a documented plan with goals, projects, timelines, and collaborators and covers a variety of visitor experience (VE) aspects, such as education, technology, and safety. To craft a comprehensive strategy, you need to consider every possible element that can impact the visitor experience.
The Benefits of Mobile Guide Apps When Docents Are On Site
A mobile guide app should never act as a replacement for helpful docents—but it can act as a useful complement. Here's why mobile apps and docents work well in combination, plus key benefits of mobile guides that you might not know about.
What Is No Code Technology & How Can You Use It?
There are many different types of no code platforms, usually ranging from niche website builders to app builders. In this post, we dive into what no code technology is, how it works, and how to choose the right solution for your needs.
How to Address Staff Shortages in Visitor Attractions & Museums
In 2020, 62 million tourism-related jobs were lost globally due to the Covid-19 pandemic, but when the world opened back up, the new demand for workers outpaced supply. Learn how you can implement digital solutions to address staff shortages in visitor attractions and museums.
The 20 Best Museum Software (By Category)
Museum software can be used to email members, sell merchandise, promote special events, engage in-person visitors, and so much more. But there are a lot of platforms on the market, and it can be hard to know which ones you really need. We’ve defined several essential museum software categories and handpicked the best tools for each one.
How to Create a GPS Triggered Audio Tour
The best way to deliver content to visitors is through their own devices. A GPS-triggered audio tour can easily achieve this as visitors walk through a museum, or drives through a region of wineries. In this guide, we dive deeper into what a GPS triggered audio tour is exactly, and how you can affordably build one for your own business or organization.
Top 5 Apps for Foodie Travelers
Cuisine often reflects the unique history and culture of a region. According to TripAdvisor, food tours are the fastest growing experience category on the travel booking site. In this blog post, we introduce five interactive, content-rich apps that will make your food tours unforgettable!
Top Outdoor Apps for Your Spring Bucket List
Spring is the perfect time to get outside and explore your favorite locations. In this blog post, we introduce the top outdoor apps that will make your spring adventure more exciting.
10 Steps for Creating an Audio Guide for Your Museum
An audio guide can better engage your visitors and take your museum experience to the next level. It not only provides additional information about the exhibits, but also adds an interactive component to your visit. This blog post shows 10 important steps for creating an audio guide for your museum, gallery, or library.
Top 5 Apps for Library Go-ers
Apps play an important role in curating highly engaging, accessible visitor experiences for libraries. This blog post introduces the top five library apps that help you stay connected and inspired during #NationalLibraryWeek!
8 Audio Guide App Examples to Inspire You
Audio guide apps help your visitors make the most of their experience in your museum, art gallery, historic site, or landmark. With a guide app, you can provide your visitors with a self-guided tour that is packed with information and interesting facts about your destination. Get inspirations for your project from these great audio guide app examples.
7 Features of the Best Travel and Tourism Apps
The best travel and tourism apps can take visitors deeper into the local experience, offer contextual information, and help ensure that visitors have a great time. Cultural site organizations can offer their own apps to improve the visitor experience. Explore the best features of apps for tourists and visitors.
Privacy and Security: Things to Consider When Launching an App
When it comes to privacy, you have nothing to worry about with the STQRY App Builder. In this article, we answer the most commonly asked security question: Do your apps collect data? Learn about why this question is important and how we address privacy concerns.
10 Features to Look for in a Museum App for Your Visitors
When visitors come to your museum, you want them to be engaged, immersed, and excited to come back. Done right, a museum app can be one of the most effective and affordable ways to engage each and every visitor. You can use your museum app to provide context and storytelling, as well as to share important resources.
Mobile Tour Guide Apps in Tourism: Making a Strong Business Case
With Covid-19 proving to be an illness the world will have to continue to cope with for some time, it’s important to provide sanitary alternatives to standard group tours and audio device rentals. In this guide, we make a strong business case for mobile tour guide apps. Whether your company plans to offer an app for free or charge for the content, ROI is within reach.
Your Insiders' Guide to STQRY: Mobile Tour Guide Apps and Digital Collections
If you don’t yet have a mobile tour guide app or digital collections, you might be missing out on important ways to improve the visitor experience and further your organization’s mission. STQRY helps you build these digital resources with no coding whatsoever and in this guide, we walk you through everything you can do with our platform.
How to Give Your Mobile Tour App a Custom Feel
When you create a mobile tour app, you want it to feel like a natural extension of the overall experience. Check out this how-to article on using the STQRY Builder to give your app a custom feel tailored to your organization.
Post-COVID Challenges That Museums Should Consider
In part 2 of this series, we continue our conversation with Jennifer Thomas, director of the Virginia Association of Museums to discuss certain challenges the industry will face in a post-pandemic world and the proposed long-term solutions.
Resilience of the Museum Industry Promises Strong Post-COVID Recovery
While the COVID-19 pandemic has presented extraordinary challenges to the museum industry, there is hope on the horizon. In conversation with Jennifer Thomas, Director of the Virginia Association of Museums, we consider the monumental cultural and societal shifts since the beginning of the 21st century.
Part 1 of a 2 part series
Native App Versus Web App: Which Is Right for Your Mobile Guide?
Once you’ve decided to actually build an app for your own company or organization, you’re faced with another decision: should you create a native mobile app or a web-based app? In this article, we walk you through the difference between these types of apps and how to choose the right one.
How to Fund Your Mobile Tour Guide App
Fortunately, building a tour guide app isn’t as expensive as it used to be. You don’t have to hire software developers to create an app from scratch and as a museum, library, or historical site, you might not need to fund your tour guide app from your internal budget. Take a look at some of these resources and other ways to fund your app.
How Museums Can Meet Visitors' Post-Covid Expectations
Museums, most of which rely at least in part on ticket sales and gift shop revenue, took a major hit during the height of Covid. As these sites shift their operations to handle increased capacity once again, a lot of changes are required. Let’s look at some important ways that you can meet visitors’ current expectations for both safety and enjoyment.
Why Building a Tour Guide App Is Easier Than You Think
Whatever your reason for brainstorming the perfect mobile app, you might keep putting it off out of concern over the timeline and budget. Building a mobile app is no longer as expensive or time-consuming as it used to be. In this post we explore all the reasons why building a mobile tour guide app is much easier (and more affordable) than you might imagine!
How to Present your Mobile App
We work with clients daily to help them understand how their organization can benefit from offering a mobile app. Many times, the individuals who we work with must present the possibility of a mobile app to their organization before any decisions are made. See our step by step instructions to presenting a mobile app to a large group.
How to Create Audio Content for Your App
A mobile tour guide app is a smart way to keep visitors engaged. There are so many use cases for self-guided content, from universities to museums to special-interest tours. Here's how to easily add quality audio tracks to your mobile guide app.
How to Create a Location-Based Tour Guide App
When you use location-based technology, you can provide an interactive experience that triggers notifications to open up new content as a visitor moves through the site. In this guide, we show you how to set up your own in about 2 to 8 weeks, depending on how long it takes you to source the content.
Opening a developer account on the App Store and Google Play
We are looking forward to launching your app! Here is how to set up those Apple & Google Play Developer Accounts so you can get to work on sharing your story.
How To Create a Script of Your Tour
As a tour operator, you know your crowd. You have your script timed and perfectly recorded in your mind. But, if you are ready to expand and add more tour guides or start using an app–how do you create a tour script? Let’s look at some options that don’t involve pen and paper!
How to Measure the Success of Your Mobile Tour App & Audio Guide
Your tour guide app has a big role to play. It welcomes visitors, points them towards the right routes, and explains important features or exhibits. In this post, we walk you through the top reasons to measure the success of your app and exactly how to do it.
Automatically Translate Text With Just One Click On STQRY
The STQRY app builder’s text translation feature is here! With our simple interface and 27 languages available, you can easily make your app accessible to millions of users worldwide and take your content to a global level.
STQRY Feature Spotlight: Geofencing
Did you know that you can integrate location-specific content into your STQRY app? With geofencing and bluetooth beacons or GPS, you can create a unique, tailored content experience for your visitors that is determined by their location within your site.
Level-Up Your App Content With Interactive QR Codes
QR codes are having a major revival across all industries, and especially within the website application sector. Learn how to integrate QR codes into your app to level up your content below, but first, let’s start at the beginning by answering the question: what is a QR code?
Best Practices For Publishing Your App
There are many things you should be considering in the early stages of app development when creating your publishing strategy. Each site will have different needs, and your visitors will have different preferences, but there are a few best practices to keep in mind that work well for almost all visitor experience apps.
How To Make Your App More Accessible and Interactive
When launching an app experience it's important to make sure that your app is as interactive and accessible as possible in order to reach the widest range of users. Consider the following features and upgrades in order to increase your accessibility and interactivity.
How To Create Effective On-Site Signage For Your Visitor Guide App
If you’ve recently created a digital tour guide app to enhance your on-site visitor journey, but you’re struggling with low adoption rates, it might be time to think strategically about your on-site signage and marketing. Learn some tips and tricks from the STQRY team!
How much does it cost to create a professional tour guide app?
Tour guide apps are valuable digital resources that enhance the visitor experience in multiple sectors. However, many organizations aren’t sure where to start when budgeting. From software to content, here is a total breakdown of costs and what to expect.
Creative Digital Solutions Drive Art Institution Success During COVID-19
During 2020, virtual connection was the only way for museums to stay in touch with visitors, donors, and staff, which meant that many institutions around the world had to get creative and implement digital solutions practically overnight. Check out some of the amazing initiatives many museums launched to remain in constant contact!
The 2020 Impact On Museums & The Future of Digital Experiences
In part two of this three-part blog series, we take a closer look with SEMC Executive Director, Zinnia Willits at the 2020 impact on museums and the future of digital experiences.
SEMC Creates Comprehensive Response to COVID-19 Shutdown
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the Southeastern Museum Conference soon realized they would need to shift their approach from a single event to member engagement and support. In this three-part blog series, STQRY sits down with SEMC Executive Director, Zinnia Willits to discuss the museum industry, digital experiences and the future.
How To Increase Engagement By Focusing On Enrichment
When the COVID-19 pandemic began, companies in all sectors scrambled to find ways to maintain relationships with their customers while being sensitive to their struggles. If you’re one of the organizations still struggling to find ways to engage with your customers during these trying times (or just looking for a bump in your existing strategies), creating digital experiences is key, and focusing your messaging on enrichment will guarantee success.
How to Repurpose Your Digital Content For Maximum Impact
As our clients navigate the new digital landscape created by COVID-19, many are wondering how to leverage their digital content to create new kinds of relationships with their customers.
Creating a Virtual Visitor Experience
All over the world organizations are facing the difficult decision to temporarily close their doors and ultimately limit access to their collections and content. However, many people are turning to digitalization in an effort to reduce group tours, and reach visitors that can’t physically visit a site.