VisitPittsburgh unveiled its new welcome center at the Heinz History Center in the Strip on Thursday, complete with AI-assisted touchscreens that it says will help visitors learn more about the region.

VisitPittsburgh’s president and CEO, Jerad Bachar, said that the history center is a natural fit for the welcome center, since it is already a popular tourist destination and is actively expanding, with plans to add a 90,000-square-foot wing with new exhibits and a 150-seat theater.

“This building, this entire campus, will be at the heart of everything that’s going on in the development of Pittsburgh,” he said.

The touchscreens, near the history center’s front desk, are roughly the size of fast food kiosks and allow tourists to create their own AI-curated travel itineraries using lists of

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