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In today's dynamic world,
technology has touched every
aspect of travel and tourism.
In this landscape, the modern
traveller has everything on his
smartphone, loaded with
travel apps that make his jour-
ney a seamless experience.
Which is why it is imperative
for today’s travel agencies to
not only understand the value
that travel apps can provide to
their customers, but also to
adopt them as part of their
business model and opera-
tional platform.
Mobile apps are a direct
tool to reach your customer
base as millennials spend most
of their time online and
connected to their smart-
phones. Mobile apps help com-
municate information about a
destination in real-time, so the
speed and agility of respon-
siveness can help build lasting
relationships with your founded by Jean-Marc De- ables women travellers and their trips. Using the Tour-
customers. Baud in 2012 and serves as a other users to reach out to Wrist app, one can easily
Here is our pick of 10 of the leading platform for travellers their friends and have them achieve this. This free platform
unique and popular travel apps across the world to not just watch over the user while allows you to make high qual-
(some of them available only in record but share and relive all he/she travels. The app has ity videos and highlight places
their travel memories with been developed by CHE Prox- where you stay. You can also
their loved ones. Along with imity in response to the statis- create your own tours. For ex-
keeping a complete log of your tics they received which ample, you can create tours
Mobile apps help communicate travel details, it also tracks showed over 90 per cent of through the backwaters of
your route, records where you women change behaviour to Kerala or through the streets
information about a clicked images, where you ensure their safety when out of of Paris. Once you've recorded
destination in real-time, recorded a video and where their homes. More than half of your travels, with the help of
you stayed.
powerful tools, you can share
the women avoid working or
so the speed and agility of Going one step ahead the exercising after dark and six and turn your basic images
app gives you a chance to blog out of 10 women detest walk- into ones that websites, blogs
responsiveness can help build about your travels. This app is ing alone home at night. or social networks will feature.
The app sends a distress
The app works on iPhone
lasting relationships with your a must for anyone who would signal to your contacts after and iPod Touch and it has
want to keep a visual journal of
customers their trips. The simple to use selecting destination and the proved as a platform that em-
interface lets you log and col-
powers not just consumers but
contacts are able to view a live
lect everything you want to map of your ongoing progress also businesses that can dis-
take back from your vacation. and they receive updates cover, shoot and share 360 de-
India) out there that have about your trip. Fearless not gree images via computers and
helped travellers simplify their Live Trekker comes with 5 only checks your speed but smartphones. The app cur-
trips. Travel agencies can use functions: also location and headphone's rently has over 50,000
these as role models to develop ● Track your each step connection. The traveller’s panoramic images making
their own apps and incorpo- ● Record everything around friends can even react and re- consumers educated by taking
rate them into their customer you spond to the updates of the location oriented decisions by
interaction platforms to get to ● Share those memories live trip ensuring one doesn't feel looking at previews of virtual
the next level of visibility with with your loved ones alone. tours of not just travel destina-
the new generation of ● Fine-tune your journeys tions but homes, businesses
travellers. ● Protect your data privacy TourWrist and schools.
Travellers are always in
Live Trekker Fearless need of a handy device that NaviMaps
The Live Trekker app was Fearless is an app that en- easily captures memories of MapmyIndia which has

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February 2018