AI destination guide for public institutions
Vespira is an AI guide that municipalities, provincial culture and tourism directorates and the Ministry of Culture and Tourism use for their own destinations. It runs on a knowledge network of places, streets and businesses, answers visitors in their own language and tells your institution what visitors are looking for.
Figures measured from our data pool as of October 2026.
The problem
Visitors see the top three sights and leave; spending does not reach the rest of town. Information is scattered, mostly in Turkish only and out of date. General-purpose AI assistants often give wrong or invented answers about small destinations.
Institution
The website is outdated, content is in one language, social media is scattered. Nobody knows who comes or what they look for, and there is no team to produce content in 21 languages.
Promotion and investment decisions are not data-driven.
Visitor
Information is spread across blogs and social media. There is no reliable, up-to-date source in their language.
They cannot plan, so the destination gets skipped.
Business
There is no reliable multilingual “what to do” guide for guests; the same questions are answered every day.
Visitors leave before they reach local businesses.
Who we are
To present every destination in Türkiye, large or small, with accurate and current information in the visitor’s own language, and to give public institutions the data to understand their visitors.
To build the Turkish-language tourism model that knows Türkiye best, on our own infrastructure, and to take that expertise abroad.
The model only speaks from records in the knowledge network. An answer that names a place not in the network is rejected.
We never ask visitors for identity. We do not collect images, usernames or post text from social media.
Every fact comes with its source. Business selection belongs to your institution, and visitors are told so.
No app download, no account: a visitor who scans a QR code gets an answer in their language in two taps.
Solution
The knowledge network, our own language model, the institution layer and the channels work together. Whichever channel your institution uses, the same verified information flows through it.
Places, streets, parks, neighbourhoods, themes and events are linked in one network, split into regions by walking distance and theme.
An open-weight language model, trained on destination data and running on our own servers. Our goal: every answer produced without sending data outside.
Your institution adds, edits or removes places, roads, parks and businesses. Base data stays intact; every change is logged and reversible.
QR guide pages, a widget embedded in your website and an API for your own app — all fed by the same network.
How it works
The knowledge network is divided into regions. A question activates the relevant region, and the model reads only that region’s verified records. Answers are fast, short and sourced.
Language, intent and place names are recognised, including transliterated spellings.
If a place is named, its region is used; otherwise the 1–3 closest regions by meaning. Location, if shared, favours nearby regions.
Neighbouring records are considered; places that are closed now, out of season or removed by your institution drop out.
A small, fast model writes the answer from this context only, in the visitor’s language.
The answer comes with its source records. If it names a place not in the network, it is rejected and regenerated.
Which region was asked about, in which language and month, is written anonymously to your institution’s report.
Use cases
Tourism office staff
Adds or corrects places from the panel, marks them “temporarily closed”, enters event dates.
Changes reach answers in 21 languages within minutes.
Mayor and council
Read the monthly report: what was asked in which language, which regions drew interest, which questions went unanswered.
Promotion and investment decisions rest on data.
Press and social media
Take ready-made multilingual copy from region summaries.
Content in 21 languages without an agency.
Tourist information office
Opens the “ask” screen on a tablet; puts QR posters in the square, at stops and museum entrances.
Frequent questions answer themselves.
Development agency
Compares districts; uses demand data for project applications.
Evidence at regional scale.
Closures and notices
A road is closed or a museum is under renovation: close it in one click with a date range.
The guide never misdirects; the record reopens when the period ends.
Before arrival
Types into the guide on your website: “Two days, travelling with kids.”
A walkable day-by-day plan.
On site
Scans a QR code; the page opens in their language: “What is open near me right now?”
Answers by location and opening hours.
In another language
Asks in Arabic, Russian or German.
Answered in the same language, with readable place names.
Special needs
“Is it wheelchair accessible?”
An answer if the data exists; otherwise an honest “I don’t know”.
Feedback
Reports “this place was closed”.
The report lands in your institution’s panel.
Hotel guest
Scans the QR code at reception.
Your institution’s guide, in the guest’s language.
In no scenario does a visitor download an app or create an account.
Institution panel
On contract day, your entire jurisdiction opens in the panel ready to use: neighbourhoods, places, businesses, roads and parks. You never start from scratch; you edit what is there.
Businesses in this guide are selected by your institution; visitors see this note.
Channels and API
An institution with its own website or app connects the guide there. One without uses the ready-made QR guide pages.
Vespira<!-- Widget on your institution’s website -->
<script src="https://vespira.app/widget.js"
data-key="pk_…" data-destinasyon="kas" async></script>
# API
POST https://vespira.app/v1/ask { "soru": "…", "dil": "en", "destinasyon": "kas" }
GET https://vespira.app/v1/places?destinasyon=kas&acik=simdiInstitution levels
The infrastructure supports three levels from day one. A higher-level institution sees the aggregated reports of those below it, but each institution edits only data at its own level.
Businesses, roads, parks, local events and its own QR guide.
Reports comparing districts; province-wide events and promotional content.
Museum and heritage-site information, licensed facilities; a national demand report; content in 21 languages and an “ask” assistant for national portals.
When sources conflict, official sources win: Ministry › Province › Municipality › Base data
Data and trust
The guide never asks for an account, phone number or e-mail. Reports are aggregated and anonymous; cells with fewer than 10 questions are hidden.
We do not collect images, usernames or post text from social media, and we do not train the model on them. Only the fact that “this place exists and draws interest” is used, through official channels.
Open data travels with its attribution; data that may not be resold never enters your outputs.
Everything your institution adds lives in a separate layer and can be exported in open formats at any time.
We are moving all AI answers to the model on our own servers, feature by feature. No path that sends data outside will remain.
Our server is in the European Union (Germany) today. Before scaling to the public sector nationally, the infrastructure will move to a data centre in Türkiye.
Every item in this section carries its status: we never present something unfinished as done.
Goals and roadmap
Partnership model
We contract only with public institutions. Relationships with businesses belong to your institution: it decides, under its own regulations, which businesses appear in the guide and on what terms. No money flows from businesses through our system.
Pilots and the first year are sized so municipalities can procure them directly. At ministry scale, a cooperation protocol or tender is followed.
Your institution’s channels show the note “Businesses in this guide are selected by your institution”. Visitors are not misled.
Data your institution adds belongs to your institution and is handed over in open formats when the contract ends.
FAQ
No. The widget is added to your website with one line of code; if you have your own app, you connect the API. Without a website, you use the ready-made QR guide pages.
No. Places, businesses, roads and parks in your jurisdiction come preloaded. You only add, correct or remove — bulk import is supported.
The model only speaks from records in the knowledge network and cites its sources. An answer that names a place not in the network is rejected. Without data it says “I don’t know”. A wrong record is corrected in the panel and reaches answers within minutes.
The guide never asks visitors for identity. Reports are aggregated and anonymous; small cells are hidden.
21 languages, including Turkish and English. Place names are written legibly in the reader’s script.
We do not collect images, usernames or post text from social media. Destination discovery relies on permitted channels such as official interfaces and your institution’s own account.
The Vespira app stays in the stores and doubles as a live demo. The guide we offer institutions is the same infrastructure, opened under your institution’s name.
Contact
Fill in the form and we will come back with a presentation and pilot proposal for your institution. You can also open the live demo now.