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1,000 QR boards, multi-lingual AI guides in MP: Will Malayalam be next for tourist sites?

Madhya Pradesh plans 1,000 QR boards with AI storytelling at 100 destinations. A look at the plan and whether Kerala tourism can follow in Malayalam.

Summary

Quick answer: At MP Travel Mart 2026, Madhya Pradesh Tourism signed an MoU with Explurger to install 1,000 QR boards across 100 tourism destinations in phases. Visitors will get multilingual digital help, guidance and storytelling through AI agents. The state also launched a multilingual tourism website in Hindi, English, German, Spanish, French and Japanese, and a digital “MP Travel Handbook” with 360-degree views, VR links, AI storytelling and audio narration.

Key facts:

1,000 QR boards, 100 destinations, phased rollout (Explurger MoU)

AI agents for multilingual assistance, guidance and storytelling

Website: www.mptourism.com, six languages

Digital handbook developed with Telmee Digiinfotech; features 360° views, VR links, audio narration

Ask any traveller what slows a trip abroad, and language comes up quickly. Madhya Pradesh is trying to make that problem smaller at home. At MP Travel Mart 2026, the state tourism board signed an MoU with Explurger to deploy AI agents that give multilingual digital assistance, tourist guidance and storytelling at selected destinations. The plan: install 1,000 QR boards across 100 tourism destinations, phase by phase. Visitors scan a code and get a guide in their pocket.

The state also launched a multilingual version of its tourism website, adding German, Spanish, French and Japanese to English and Hindi, and a digital “MP Travel Handbook”, a dynamic coffee-table book with 360-degree views, VR links, AI storytelling and audio narration.

On the other hand, Kerala draws overseas visitors and tourists from across India, including many who do not read Malayalam or English fluently. Fort Kochi, Munnar, Alappuzha and Thiruvananthapuram all carry layered histories that signboards rarely explain in full. A QR-and-AI approach could change that.

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