Wednesday 9 March 2016

5 Types of Travel Apps Users Want for a Power-Packed Holiday


So, you run a travel and tourism? Do you have an app for your users?

Why tourists hire car from your competitor and not you? – Simple, you don’t have an app

You run a ticket booking company, how will you reach out to more audience, faster and in a feasible manner? – Answer is Apps.

Many of you run a travel business but fails to power it with apps. Hope, the number of such business owner is little less than I guess. More than 75 percent of the travel and tourism business owners miss a great business opportunity as they do not have a proper app to leverage solutions.

But what type of apps a traveler wants to use on a power-packed holiday?

While traveling a person is exposed to rave new discoveries – whether they have hit the road on business purpose or for relaxation. The problem is, there are issues which might come up during exploration such as late flight schedules, missed itineraries or safety. So every traveler wants some tools that can be their companion or a vacation guide.

So if you have launched an app-as-a-service, then make sure it resolves a real-life problem for every traveler who downloads it.

We asked a few travel junkie friends-cum-client of us, also scoured the internet to find out five big time travel apps that hit the download button for a maximum time. Here’s a list of 5 types of travel apps, which is popular since a quite a long time among spontaneous backpackers.

Flight Tracker Apps

It is important for every traveler to check their flight schedule whether on their business trip or on a holiday. Flight trackers help to keep a tap on the flight schedules, delay in timings and track paths of the international flights and even track the baggage. To improve the user experience one must integrate fully zoomed maps, easy search bars, navigation and better performance and must have query forms that are easy to fill with a few taps.

Holiday Planner Apps

To plan a trip from start to finish is a clever move and avoid unnecessary problems when you are out to a foreign land. Most of the adept travelers look for some pocket application that can turn into a personal travel agent. Whether the users are a spontaneous backpacker or a business traveler, they want an app that will help them to organize trips and make the most of their journey. They are looking for vacation planner apps that will plug in all flight, hotel, and car rental solutions and must be able to create a digital itinerary for every trip.

Car hiring app

Hiring a car is a difficult job and in a foreign land, it is puzzling. So every traveler wants to empower themselves with a car hiring app that operates almost worldwide or a comparison app to compare the fare prices and select the cheap price for hiring a car.

Currency conversion apps

Math is not something entertaining on holidays. Who would like to convert numbers in their heads? So an app for currency conversion is something that a traveler will like to browse through and track live currency markets all over the world or get accurate conversion tables for currency that is used at your vacation destination.

Translator apps

If one is traveling somewhere or to a land whose language is unknown to him or her, then it will be a major barrier to communication and can ruin trips. A translator app is an excellent option to pull a person out of those odd situations and communicate or read signs with a few taps on the apps. Such an app is in high demand these days.

Wrapping up

Keep users in mind while developing apps for travel – since they are the one who are going to use it – so tap the target audience, look for their interests, and type of apps they are searching to can make the journey easier. If you are already into a business of same niche, cater more solution and best service by leveraging them through apps.

To make a travel app and aid your customer with possible benefits, seek our consultation or let us brainstorm with your app idea.





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