Ziptrek Ecotours is catering for Aussies with a new audio tour app.
The company launches its free "Stqry'' app this week, with another version in Mandarin timed for the summer season and Chinese New Year.
The app can be downloaded on to any phone using a QR code at the Ziptrek store in Queenstown and guests could use their own earphones, or free disposable earphones provided by the company from late January.
A number are in place at each of Ziptrek's treehouses on Bob's Peak.
Guests are prompted to start up the audio information as they reach each relevant platform.
Between ziplines, guides deliver an interpretive talk with a strong ecological focus before they "zip'' to the next tree platform.
Director Trent Yeo said the the app ensured no-one was left out.
"It's super-inclusive for some of our Chinese guests who may previously have missed out on some of the key information or nuances in presentation from our guides, and why not do an Aussie version, too?
"Our guide, Steve Marchment, loved being the Aussie 'translator' for that one. Mr Marchment was a "fair dinkum Aussie'', Mr Yeo said.
