Umni among the 5 most innovative enterprises in Bulgaria
The voting for the 2019 Tourism Annual Awards at the Ministry of Tourism has been completed.
After one month of voting, our company ranks among the 5 most innovative companies in the field of tourism in Bulgaria.
The City Concierge is a city chatbot backed by conversational AI that helps the city or destination guests to receive up-to-date information at any time of the day in the form of dialogue in a messenger. The chatbot provides information about different businesses, venues, services and events, as well as useful information such as weather, air quality of the moment, currency calculator and more.
We thank everyone who supported the City Concierge chatbot as an innovation in the field of smart tourism in Bulgaria.
The Plovdiv City Chatbot by Umni in the air of BNT 1
The first city chatbot in Bulgaria – Plovdiv City Concierge, a project by Umni, was featured in the air of the Bulgarian national broadcaster BNT 1
The material showed what the virtual assistant of the European Capital of Culture’14 is and to whom it is oriented.
In an interview with the Bulgarian National Television, Elitsa Stoilova, CEO of the company, told details about the content and usage of the city chatbot in Plovdiv and how it helps.
Weather forecasts, air quality information and daily horoscope are part of the additional functionalities that Plovdiv City Concierge brought to the visitors of the city.
Plovdiv City Concierge was officially presented in Plovdiv
A month the first city chatbot in Bulgaria was released, Plovdiv City Concierge was officially presented with a presentation to the local business at the “Wine and Gourmet Defile” Wine Festival in the town on May 11.
The presentation was organized at the invitation of the Tourism Council of Plovdiv.
On the occasion of the festival and the presentation, Umni also released a special chatbot-guide for the wine festival, which received positive comments from the users and guests of the festival.
Umni at BSTV
BSTV invited our CEО Elitza Stoilova to participate on May 10 in the morning show “Bulgaria wakes up” with the lead Stoil Roskev.
The program devoted 25 minutes to Elitza to tell the audience more about the chatbots, Plovdiv City Concierge, her personal and professional history, and the Marianas Islands, where she lived and worked for 17 years to build her career as general manager of a hotel.
Plovdiv City Concierge in “Radiocafe”
Plovdiv City Concierge was the main subject of the interview with our CEO Elitza Stoilova and the journalists Lili Goleminova and Konstantin Lavsov in the morning radio-program “Radiocafe” at the Bulgarian National Radio.
The first city chatbot in Bulgaria is working already a month and the journalists were curious what is a chatbot, how it helps, why now, what the Plovdiv City Concierge can do. They were impressed that the virtual assistant can provide not only information about businesses, services and places in the city but also the weather prognoses, current air quality information, an exchange rate, and calculator and even the horoscope for the day.
The official presentation for the Plovdiv City Concierge will be on 11 May during the Plovdiv Wine Festival “Wine and Gourmet”, hosted by the Plovdiv Tourism Council.
The Plovdiv City Chatbot on TV+
After several publications in various media of the story about this chatbot, Plovdiv City Concierge got its moment of glory also on TV in a report by TV Plus.
How the Plovdiv city chatbot idea was born and what the Plovdiv virtual assistant can do, you will hear it shared by the CEO Elitza Stoilova, as well as you can see video of what exactly happens inside the bot.
After watching the report, you can test yourself Plovdiv City Concierge here