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Essential Features For Your Travel and Tourism Mobile Apps

Apps like Make My Trip, Goibibo, Tripadvisor, etc. are the big giants when it comes to travel and tourism apps and a majority of people have either one of them installed on their mobile devices. Travel apps have facilitated the tourism industry in a large way. Let’s consider an example.

Imagine you are out on a vacation and you want to know the best local restaurant to eat. What will you do? You can either contact your local tour guide or you can ask your hotel staff to guide you through the same. Well, in both cases, getting the right list of options can become difficult and delayed.

It just isn’t about having the best dining experience. There are several other factors as well, such as getting easy hotel bookings, finding out the best shopping avenues, reaching the most popular events happening in a place, locating attractive deals and packages and much more. So, now, what is the best resort to these errands of travelling? Well, the answer is having a competent travel mobile app.

A mobile app proffers a complete solution for making your vacation time full of amazing memories and devoid  of stress. It delivers the much needed value from your ranging travel affairs. Right from hiring a car in a foreign land to locating the cheapest service in a particular area, with a travel app, you can accomplish it all.

If as a developer, you are looking to develop a travel mobile app that goes above and beyond the user expectations, then try to create a solution after deeply exploring all touring facts, gathering relevant ideas and discovering the pain points of travelers and offering them with something that is of niche worth and connects with their travel requirements.

Here are some significant services offered by a proficient travel app that largely serve the travel and tourism industry:

  • Ticket Booking

While planning to take a trip with your friends or family, the first thing you need to do is get your travel tickets booked. Customarily, there are two specific ways of doing that. Either you book your travel tickets from the counter or you go to a travel agent for the same.

While the first method involves standing in long queues for unspecified time duration, the second method will require you to pay commission.However, with a travel app, you can save both your time as well as your money.

All you have to do is log in to a good travel app, select the tickets with your preferred timing and mode of commuting, thus permitting you to  accomplish booking in a much simplified way. Also, many a times these travel apps offer a reward points or cash back as a part of its engagement scheme. It just can’t get better, isn’t it?

  • Local accommodation and transportation

Travelling to a new place may sometimes get quite difficult as many a times it may happen that you know nothing about the local accommodation and transportation services. There are chances that you may get mugged for higher rates or low-quality services. Well, in order to avoid it, you can make use of a good travel app that can help you analogize the prices available with different vendors.

This way you can be assured of genuine prices that are to be paid for every kind of service. With these apps, you can also book the services related to sightseeing or local transfers.

Such mobile apps offer the ideal way of helping tourists benefit from quality with their extremely economical services. Also, with these apps, travel companies have a better chance of offering lucrative deals and offers to their customers and in turn, thus can expand the scale of their business.

  • Spot Services

While you are out on a trip, how often have you wished to have a guy around you to guide you through the major sightseeing spots or maybe help you out in locating the right cafe?

Well, such services may seem quite inconsequential, but they are very important when the people you are travelling with  have different needs and preferences.

So you can now,  thank to a mobile app, that paves our sophisticated way for acquiring local help and taking care of your on-journey anguishes. You can be assured of reliable services as and when you need them. A travel business app can help you procure the right information in the right place at the right time.

Final Thoughts

With the rapid advancements in the mobile world and technology, the possibilities for developing a smart and progressive solution for the tourism industry have simply become endless. All you need to do is keep looking for new ways to keep your potential customers engaged, that are continuing adopting the very ideation of having a travel mobile app for simplifying their travel needs.. Serving them with eventful iPhone or android app solutions will help your business and the tourism industry at large, to grow in all possible ways.

Sumit Garg

Project Manager @ Octal Info Solution