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How To Develop Successful Travel App Like Priceline, Expedia, Airbnb

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Dmytro Brovkin
How To Develop Successful Travel App Like Priceline, Expedia, Airbnb

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. This is where mobile apps truly shine.

Why launch a Travel App: a new landmark on the digital landscape

Let’s take a look at the numbers before we dive deeper into the topic. In 2009 the amount of downloads worldwide was about 2.5 billion. In 2011 it reached 3.1 billion. 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. Let’s take a look at these facts.

Today almost everyone has a smartphone, and 65% of the travelers prefer to plan their trips with the help of mobile apps.

Most businessmen (actually about 70% of them) book their tickets and hotels via mobile apps. 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. The travel mobile app can include dictionaries, maps, guides to different places of interest (cafés, restaurants, museums and other). Nowadays about 75% of the travelers use at least one mobile app during their trip.

At the moment 35% of the travelers download apps for their trip or the upcoming holidays. Another way to use the app is to share the impressions immediately or after the trip. In the era of social networks more than half of the tourists post their vacation photos online.

The travel mobile apps occupy the 7th place on the list of the most downloaded apps. The stats show that the app launch can provide new ways to increase your income, make the brand more popular, build a loyal client base and much more. Of course an app has to have a great and valuable idea in it and be well-designed and developed. This way a mobile app can be a huge advantage for your business.

 

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