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"Background: A Virtual Pilgrimage experience is an alternative to travel that is perfect for those who are unable to leave their home, or even for those who are just looking for a Spiritual Journey. These can benefit the senior citizens who can visit these sites using their phones. The user can visit the pilgrimages of India from anywhere at any time. Summary: In COVID times, people cannot reach their favorite pilgrimages they are devoted towards. In addition Pilgrmages also suffer financially. In addition disabled or old devotees are not able to visit the pilgrimages. To develop a single virtual platform having live 360 visuals of famous pilgrimages of India will help these devotees Objective: § To bring forward the culture of India to the rest of the world § Make sure users stay emotionally connected with their deity even in COVID induced lockdown"


Background: History plays an eminent role in cultural representation of any place as heritage sites and monuments reflect tradition, art and culture of the previous golden era.This can be achieved through AR in historical recreation. Using a smartphone, the user can visit historic buildings and learn more about the past, swipe through monuments and see events of the past come alive in 3D. Summary: To develop an AR application for visitors so that they can scan any area in a monument and can see history come alive through augmented animations. Objective: ? An "Immersive Augmented Reality" based App to explore the Cultural Heritage of India.
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A homestay is an accommodation where You stay with a local family and live with them. In general, it means that You have Your own room and depending on the family or Your preferences You are becoming an additional family member, but can also be more private or on Your own. Homestay tourism adds authentic sociocultural richness to the tourist’s experience. Homestays are an attractive alternative tourism product to portray the cultural richness in India. Homestay is a popular form of hospitality and lodging whereby visitors share a residence with a local family of the destination to which they are traveling. Homestay tourism is popular in many destinations; it adds authentic sociocultural richness to the tourist's experience. For a nation which possesses an abundance of tourism richness in remote communities, homestays are an attractive alternative tourism product. It was also homestay hosting is beneficial to host families as it offers social interaction and preservation of local culture, a sense of local pride, income and employment and educational opportunities for operators' children such as becoming more multilingual. Even in this era, although tourism industry is booming due to promotions and regulations yet the homestay ecosystem is not much looked into because of lack of promotion on social media. This prevents the homestay ecosystem people from investing more into making the homestay more better for tourists. Also proper regulation of the ecosystem throughout the country should be done to keep the industry growing. Keeping the above points in mind, an innovative approach should be developed to bring the homestay tourism to life. There could be several approaches to tackle this and below are some suggestions which we think are the one of the few possibilities, as possibilities are immense, it only needs to be explored more and more. The main goal of the solution proposed should be to develop a solution which aims at promoting and regulating homestay ecosystem throughout the country to maintain its general standard. Some examples:- Using of modern cutting edge tech like AI,ML, Deep Learning, Augmented and Virtual Reality. One can think of a web/mobile app which can give virtual tour of the place so that people can witness it virtually and get a glimpse of the place sitting at home.
Suggesting the minimum support requirements at tourist destination, community level to ensure suitability of setting up of homestay ecosystem.(Tourism/pilgrimages)/A solution/idea that can boost the current situation of the tourism industries including hotels, travel and others.

2.Background: Web-Based solution widely accessible for storing and sharing information about buildings/offices/schools/marketplace etc.Summary: Presently, we can get a lot of information on a map-based platform using a PC or a mobile app. Examples of such apps are Ola & Uber showing taxi locations, Zomato & Swiggy showing restaurant locations and Google maps showing restaurants, filling stations, hotels etc. But today a disabled person is unable to browse and identify nearby locations having accessibility features. Offices, restaurants, bus stops, railway platforms, schools, cinema halls etc. which are having accessibility provisions can not be filtered and shown by any means today, which would be very helpful to persons with disabilities. There is no centralized web portal or app for storing of information on accessible Offices/ buildings/ departments/ public places. There is no platform where restaurant owners, film hall owners, hotel owners etc. can register and declare that their properties are now accessible. Objective: Development of a centralized platform with web-based portal and a mobile app for storing and sharing of information about accessible buildings/ public places/ offices. The system will also store their physical locations so that the information can also be shown on a on-screen map. The system will store and share information about the accessibility features viz. provisions of ramps, handrails, accessible toilets, Braille signage, accessible counters, lifts, wheelchairs etc. The system will store and share photographs and videos of such places. Registration of accessible buildings/ locations by the owners (private & Government both). Display of information to the disabled persons as per search criteria on a map based platform, like google map or Ola app. After a disabled person chooses a building/ location he/ she wants to travel using this system/ app, the app should guide him/her with suitable voice-based announcements (along with showing directions on the dynamic map) to navigate and reach the place. Facility should be similar to Google map or the app may integrate Google map for providing such facility. Centralized server for storing of information with security features.

3.Kishan's idea