For the new tourist - digital, hyperconnected and multi-channel - tourist apps have become essential tools for their travels.
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There are travel apps to discover a new destination, book accommodation, a restaurant or buy plane or train tickets. But there are also tourist apps that can help you do the Camino de Santiago without leaving home through virtual reality or mitigate the effects of jet lag, translate a text into 29 languages using only the smartphone camera, organize your suitcase according to your destination or control your expenses.
The 2017 Tourist Apps Guide , published by the Spanish Chamber of Commerce and Segittur, with co-financing from the ERDF, includes more than 230 mobile applications that will help you prepare, organize and integrate into the tourist destination you have chosen. It is grouped into seven categories: transport, accommodation, leisure and catering, active tourism, destination guides, useful travel applications and applications for smartwatches. And in each of them it is possible to consult a list of the most representative apps with data such as the platforms where they can be downloaded (Android, iOS or Windows Phone), their size, price or their functionalities.
In the transport section, there are 35 travel apps linked numero de telefono mexico airlines, airports, trains or flight search engines. One example of these is CheapsTickets , which offers users special offers on flights, hotels and car rentals.
In terms of accommodation, users can find 33 applications to find hotels, campsites and rural establishments, such as Unsheeping, a powerful tourist guide for cities that allows users to book accommodation quickly and easily. Users can get discounts of 5% or more, as well as accumulate 3% of reservations from other users.
The Leisure and Restaurant section offers a collection of 23 tourist applications to search for and book restaurants, buy tickets, theme parks, discounts or leisure parks. Celicity , for example, offers the user a wide and updated network of restaurants and shops with gluten-free products. While within the Active Tourism category, a total of 27 applications are offered for skiing, trekking, scuba diving or sailing, although it also allows you to find apps such as Camino 360º , which offers the user the possibility of putting on interactive boots, putting on virtual reality glasses and getting into the skin of a pilgrim walking the Camino de Santiago.
In the Destination Guides section, 42 tourism apps are compiled to discover the attractions of the different autonomous communities, the main national destinations, as well as the most visited international cities such as London, Paris or New York. For this last destination, NYC Mtrip is available, an app that creates personalized itineraries of the city of New York with augmented reality, a control panel for all the trip data or a currency converter. It also sends photos and postcards.
The Guide also includes a section called Useful Applications, where you can find 38 apps with functions ranging from currency converters, translators, suitcase organizers to expense controllers. One example is By my eyes , an application for blind people that helps them find their way around an unknown city or correctly aim the lens of their smartphone camera. It also has an assistant that you can ask any kind of question to.
The 2017 Travel Apps Guide also includes a section of 37 apps available on smartwatches for those travellers who are just starting to use this type of technology.