Showing posts with label travel guides. Show all posts
Showing posts with label travel guides. Show all posts

Saturday, October 2, 2010

New Travel Guide App for iPhone

A unique travel guide application has been launched on the iPhone. The mTrip Travel Guides launched on the iPhone on June, 21. The mTrip application launched with city guides for nine US and European cities. mTrip aids in planning your itinerary to guiding you around the city. It also describes and show tourist attractions, hotels and many places of interest. The nine cities that are on the application are London, Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Barcelona, New York, San Francisco and Chicago. The application comes in English, French, German, Spanish and
Italian.


New Travel Guide App for iPhoneThe mTrip iPhone application has the automated itinerary planner. This is done by suggesting a personalised trip based on the travellers interest, trip dates and other useful information. It can plan the time and pace for the Tourist based on an advanced algorithm.

The world travel guide also comes with a lot of tourist attractions. Falk CIS, one of Europe’s leading travel content providers provide all the expert information on the application. From this you can pick quality restaurants, view their pictures and even their ratings.

The travel guide pinpoints the exact location of the traveller automatically. It then displays the best route to navigate to where you want to go. The traveller also has the option of viewing any places of interest in his current location. This can be done in offline mode causing no roaming fees.

Without connecting to the internet, the user of the application can also view tourist attraction in an area at a heightened, surreal view.

You can also stay in touch with others on the application. You can send postcards through Facebook and personal emails. Sharing is free and limitless.

“Travel preparation, sightseeing and trip sharing are completely re-defined with the arrival of travel applications. Apps should support the traveller in a quick and easy way with rich, updated information and clever offline functionalities for the most optimal trip experience. With this first series of city guides, we have brought together expert content, traveller’s feedback and the latest technologies available on the market,” says Frederic de Pardieu, CEO and Founder of mTrip. “We want travellers to remain stress-free, enjoy discovering new attractions and almost forget that they are even using a guide,” says de Pardieu.

Source: Businessservicenews.com

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Saturday, July 17, 2010

Facebook Buys Travel Guide Start-Up

It’s not just Google that’s interested in firms that work in the travel industry. Social networking giant Facebook has bought NextStop, a startup that allows users to create their own travel guides and share it with others who are not familiar with the places they’re visiting, reports ComputerWorld.

The move is inline with Facebook’s current development of providing location-based services to its users. Though the company has not disclosed the price of the acquisition, it has also bought most of NextStop’s assets.

As a result, NextStop’s website will be closing down on September 1 of this year. Users will have time to export their content with tools that will be provided by NextStop.

It will make its content available on the Internet under a Creative Commons CC-BY license allowing other services to make use of it. Users who do not wish their content to be included in “public sharing” can write NextStep. Users will also not have to worry about their personal information as it will not be shared to Facebook.

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