{"id":7481,"date":"2022-04-04T08:37:04","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T08:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7481"},"modified":"2022-04-04T08:40:23","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T08:40:23","slug":"using-beacons-in-zoos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/using-beacons-in-zoos\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Beacons in Zoos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marwell.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Marwell Zoo<\/a> has a new app, with support for beacons, that allows visitors to plan their day, locate animals and stay informed about the zoo\u2019s latest news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/marellzooibeacons.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/marellzooibeacons.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/marellzooibeacons-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The app provides an interactive map and contextual messages to the 140-acre park&#8217;s 500,000 visitors a year. The app uses the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/attractions.io\/\" target=\"_blank\">attractions.io<\/a> platform who have <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/attractions.io\/learn\/5-reasons-using-ibeacons-attraction\" target=\"_blank\">an article<\/a> on how to add value to a visitors\u2019 experiences through the use of contextual messages and having a better understanding of guests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/VisitorSpaces\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read about Beacons in Visitor Spaces<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/ibeacon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">View iBeacons<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marwell Zoo has a new app, with support for beacons, that allows visitors to plan their day, locate animals and stay informed about the zoo\u2019s latest news. The app provides an interactive map and contextual messages to the 140-acre park&#8217;s 500,000 visitors a year. The app uses the attractions.io platform who have an article on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/using-beacons-in-zoos\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Using Beacons in Zoos&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7481"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7481"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7505,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7481\/revisions\/7505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}