An Edinburgh-based tech start-up is hoping tourists over the Jubilee bank holiday weekend will give it the data it needs to help prevent future overcrowding at visitor hotspots.
Whereverly is working with bosses at the Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park, as well as Stirling Council and Perth and Kinross Council, to help them deal with some of the problems that have come with surging tourist numbers, such as traffic jams, litter and so-called “dirty camping”, where campers leave sites covered with litter and damaged by fires.
A tech platform is being developed which uses data from sensors which will count footfall and traffic within the national park, allowing them to show in real time which areas are busiest.
