The tourism sphere is a huge business sector that includes lots of components: travel agencies, insurance companies, hotels, restaurants and so on.

And it’s rather hard to overestimate the importance of mobile devices in this field — people need access to high quality service while they are away from their PCs and unable to be physically present at the office.

We can expect the number to exceed 7 billion at the end of 2017 which is more than twice as much as six years ago.The smartphones are about to replace laptops and PCs when it comes to online shopping.

If your business is connected with this field and for some reason you still don’t have your own mobile app, it’s time to think about it.For travel companies as well as online retail the advantages of a mobile application for business are quite obvious.

It serves to boost the sales, improve the quality of service and to make clients more loyal to the brand and its products.Mobile travel apps include:Google and Apple Maps;Travel planners;The apps that show you WiFi hotspots nearby;The apps that allow you to book hotels and tickets everywhere you go;The apps that can find services for the with special needs.Launching a really helpful app for your users is a great way to get ahead of your competitors.

Around 80% of travel companies, hotels and avia-companies profit from brand exposure, income increase and other factors after an app launch.Every tourist would definitely want to have an app that allows him to navigate easily everywhere they go.

According to Smart Insights, 70% of all users surf the Internet on their smart phones and spend about 87 hours per month on it.

It’s crucial to know the factors that’ll help you go as far as possible.

There are just too many apps in the market, you can’t let the steep learning curve scare off the convertible traffic.Help people get on board, make the interface user friendly, embed some kind of hints.

You can even send the personalized messages to every single one of them.Learn from your clientsThe Internet is full of people who have their own opinion on everything.

However, this is one of the best ways to improve your product.Listen to the people who complain about something, even if it’s a bit unpleasant at times.

Just don’t forget that you will always be criticized more than you’ll be praised and that’s pretty natural.

So, Google Play is the official market app for Android, but it certainly isn’t the only one.

In the list below there’s a fresh top-10 list with a detailed description for each one.So, why look for alternatives in the first place?The question that you would be absolutely right to ask is why would you even need something like this when not a single one of the alternative stores comes even close to Google’s one in regard to apps amount.

Most of them don’t demand any money for adding the app, so we get the cheap possibility to gain some publicity, new installs, and feedback for your app.We can give you at least four other reasons to use alternative app sources:First, there are great offers — you can often find some huge discounts or local sales which the publishers use to gain new customers.

We’ll list ten options that let you download the apps.SlideMESlideME is one of the oldest app stores for Android, it’s even older than Google Play.

Opera has a contract with the biggest Russian search engine Yandex, which helps them promote their store in this country.

Stats on this marketplace read the following: about 200 000 apps, 100 million visitors per month and 2 million downloads daily.1Mobile Market1Mobile Market only takes free apps, but it doesn’t mean you shouldn’t consider it as the alternative to Google Play.

When was the last time you used your phone to send an app?

It’s been found that 97% of the world’s population has sent a text at least once in their life, with the average person sending up to 14 texts a day, straight from their phones or through a chat application like Whatsapp.A further 75% of the mobile users prefer instant messaging apps for communication over more traditional modes of communication, such as email.

As of 2016, Whatsapp currently boasts a user base of 1,2 billion, making it the most popular messaging application in the world next to Facebook IM and WeChat.Real time instant messaging applications are distinguished by their real time delivery of messages and multimedia between two users, and its of no surprise and investors and developers seek to replicate Whatsapp’s success in their own chat apps.

In that spirit, this article will outline the main ways you can equip yourself to successfully create a chat app for iOS or Android, and see your app succeed on the market.Ideal Features in a Chat AppWhatsapp, at its core, is a messaging service built for smartphones, relying on internet connection or mobile phone data.

Each successful real time chat app has salient features to draw in new users, and it’s this good functionality that rests at the core of a successful chat app.The number of features your app will host further dictate the cost of your app’s development.

Because all chat apps will host this instant messaging feature, it’s the little additions that count here: the ability to have private or public chats, for instance.Will your app host custom fonts, stickers, and emojis, or a “mute chat” feature for those group chats that never stop buzzing?

After two centuries of rapid development photography has gone a long way from being a luxury to becoming a huge part of our everyday life.

Nowadays your cat can have more photos than a royal family could afford just a couple of hundreds years ago.The photography culture (or should we say cult?)

Nowadays it is the indisputable leader when it comes to sharing pictures, it’s well-known all around the world.

The official data provided by the service sounds incredible.Instagram users post more than 80 million pictures daily, they like the photos 3.5 billion times a day, and the monthly auditory reach is more than 400 million users.

It’s nearly impossible to list all the events that photo-sharing apps could potentially be used on: parties, travels, self-advertising and much more.So what does it take to create an Instagram alternative from scratch?While there is a leader in the market, it doesn’t mean that there is absolutely no place for new contenders.

The first thing to pay attention is the interaction map for Instagram users:Authorization (create a new profile, sign in an already existing one via social networks);Editing the profile (add, edit or delete your personal data);Posting the pictures (upload the pictures taken inside the all or uploaded from the device, mention the people, add the hashtags);Timeline (follow, like, comment);Social features (have the ability to share the post or invite your friends from Facebook);Pictures customization (crop it, rotate it, add filters);Location (let the location service get your geo-data via pictures taken in the app);Messenger (text+photo);Notifications, push-notifications;Search (username, just name, hashtags, post description).It’s also important to pay attention to the interface of an app.

When you consider the fact that the first billion rides took Uber 6 years, but the second billion was garnered in a mere 6 months, it’s not surprising to see Uber emerge as a global business leader.

This worldwide phenomenon is built on a simple idea, seductive it its premise: the ability to hail a car with nothing but your smartphone.It took the problem of hailing at taxi and gave it a equitable solution for all, solving the eternal chicken-or-egg problem, further capitalizing on the emerging market.

San Francisco was, acting as the heart of the tech community in the US, was thus the perfect sounding board for this form of technological innovation to thrive.In the beginning, Uber spread their app through word of mouth, hosting and sponsoring tech events, and giving participants of their events free rides with their app.

This form of go to marketing persists today; giving 50% discounts to new riders for the first Uber ride.

Once you’ve signed up, they’ll send you an SMS to verify your number, which will then allow you to set your payment preferences.

Trip fares are charged after every ride through this cashless system.

The Uberization of the economy, and indeed logistics market at large, was driven largely by the success of Uber.

Its model is one everyone wants to replicate, and for good reason; the company is expanding itself well fast in the taxi industry, and has launched its “Uber Freight”, reinventing the logistics of the transportation industry by eliminating the middle man broker.This launch into the logistics industry isn’t new; indeed, logistic based apps have seen great profit in China, for example, where the company Huochebang (“Truck Gangs”) raised around $115 million after a financing round valued the startup at $1 billion.

The market giant Amazon is also setting its sights on the 800-billion-dollar logistics industry.Thus, we can draw the conclusion that mobile apps targeted at the logistics industry represent a niche in the market.

A mobile app for logistics has the potential to make the industry more efficient by matching consumer demand for packaging services directly with source, and further cuts out the middle man “third party broker” who can charge up to a 30% commission for their services.This optimizes the associated cost and time taken to deliver and receive packages.

And why shouldn’t Uber’s on demand model be replicated for logistics?

Drivers, truckers, and carriers move up to 80% of the total freight in the US, with the logistics industry’s gross revenue exceeding $700 billion, and yet, local industries are hindered by the inefficient business model whereby the repositioning of empty containers costs nearly the same as moving a full one.Thus, a transportation app styled after Uber’s supply meet demand model eliminates the need for a middle man between shippers and truckers, and further establishes a direct line between truckers and those who need their services.Take Transmission, for example.