How to Build a City Guide App for Travelers

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Here’s everything you would like to know how to build a city guide app for travelers. Just for any city!

The smart phone has become the modern traveler’s new friend. Be it finding and booking the cheapest flight between destinations or using navigation for a detour, travel apps have been helping several tourists across the globe to go about doing what they love. However, it takes more than just local knowledge to come up with a really successful digital city guide.

Travel apps, especially city guides allow travelers to find just about anything in a completely new place. Consequently, they no more have to worry about taxis charging extra with unnecessary detours or finding the nearest café to quickly go through their office mails. Apps like this are all about traveling at your own pace and not depending on local help. Successful travel apps and city guide integrate the latest smart phone features including the GPS and camera to make it a better experience. The growing demand for such apps has consequently led to several developers working on city guides and catering it to their globetrotting customers. If you want to develop a travel guide app for exploring cities, here are some things that should be at the back of your mind.

Set a goal

A city guide comes with the basic navigation guide inside a city’s boundaries, but there’s more that a developer should be targeting. The aim of the app could be to pass information or create a knowledge sharing platform that seeks contribution from all travelers (in the form of reviews or pictures). Staying updated with information is another crucial aspect of a city guide if you really want happy and satisfied users.

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High functionality

Travelers are impatient people and expect direct answers. Consequently, a good city guide app should be intuitive, easy-to-use and fast performing. High functionality doesn’t mean too much of features but features and tools that are really useful and will help a visitor. You need to research and understand what most visitors would come looking for in your app.

User interface design

Again, UI is something that you will need to keep straightforward. The design of your app can be a deal-breaker as it is directly related to the user experience. For example, when you can show a glimpse of a place through pictures, why come up with a lengthy content instead of it! A city guide needs to be such that visitors get quick information in just a few clicks.

A good landing experience

When looking for a city guide, travelers are looking for immediate help. An app that takes 30 seconds to load is as good as a failure and the user will make sure that it is deleted. The landing page should have everything that the user might be looking for. It’s the design that minimizes the confusion and eliminates dead loops.

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A reason to come back

A good app ensures that the user comes back looking for more or refer it to others. Well, what’s the takeaway in that? Perhaps, you can integrate features like deals and offers or special 360-degree maps that promise useful and unique information that won’t be found elsewhere. Just coming up with a map and a feature for navigation doesn’t really make the cut. There should always be something extra.

Encouraging sharing

Now, this is how you spread the word in the community. People will share something only when it makes sense and will help their friends and followers. This is why you should be considering the integration of social networks like Facebook, Instagram or Twitter to promote your app and reach the maximum number of audiences.

A travel app, especially city guide makes sense if you are really looking to make a mark in the hospitality industry. However, do understand that the competition is huge and the expectations are sky high.

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