How Mobile Apps Impacting Travel and Tourism Industry

Nitin Nimbalkar
4 min readJul 30, 2019

In the past last few years, technology has played a significant role in every industry, so whether it is travel or any other industry, technology has brought substantial revolution in the traveling industry. It has changed the entire face of tourism, making it effortless for everyone to book a vacation with a few simple steps with the help of mobile apps. But, due to the rapid increase in smartphone users, numerous industries have changed, and there are many mobile applications which are available in the internet market from where you can seamlessly plan your trips. The advent of the mobile app technology has taken the travel industries to new heights. Earlier, we used depends upon the travel agencies to plan our trip, but with the advancement in the technology, we can quickly book our vacation from sitting at our home, so due to this transformation, numerous travel companies are looking to get their mobile app development to engage more potential customers. Currently, almost around 80% of traveler’s using their mobile apps to plan their trips, and if you are in the travel business, then it is a peak time to launch your mobile applications in order to compete with your rivals. However, there is many mobile app development company available in the market to assist you in developing as well as for launching your mobile application as per your business needs.

So, below are the given essential aspects of improving your web application to increase your customer and profit in the travel industry.

Manage all your bookings

One of the most significant reasons due to which most of the travelers are enticing towards mobile applications as they can now easily make all their booking by sitting at their home. So, with the help of mobile apps, you can easily pick your favorite destination, book your tickets, search, and make a reservation in the hotel as well. Besides, you can also add numerous features in your mobile applications to make it more interesting. However, you can add weather updates features and local places of interest, which can help a traveler to know more about the location of their interest and its weather condition, and so on.

Client-Centric Platform

Due to the increasing number of smartphones users, the competition in the software product development company and travel industry has also increased. Today, thousands of application available in the app store, where you can download any mobile app for any category, so you will get numerous choices to select from the App Store, where many factors can influence the user’s mind to select and download the App. So, one of the prime considerations is how much discount enterprise is offering in the booking app from your mobile apps. However, there are numerous mobile applications available on the app store which allows users to compare the traveling expense as well as the prices of the various hotels for reservation, so you need to be careful while giving promotional offers.

Marketing Tools

In the current tech-driven era, internet marketing and promotion have become one of the prime tools for increasing business as well as visibility. So, for making your mobile application successful, you need to design your app in such a way which can help to entice multiple customers. However, to get the relevant audience, you need to promote your app on various platforms, so there are many web application development company’ which can help you to provide digital marketing services so the business can easily avail the help from them in promoting their app. Therefore, one of the ideal ways to accomplish your goal is to stay connected with your customers for that you can also add various social media buttons to get the relevant information.

Reduces Paperwork and make our Transaction Simple

Mobile apps have made all the process seamless and straightforward, so now with the help of the mobile app, you don’t need to do any paperwork you can easily save a softcopy of the entire essential document such as flight tickets, hotel reservation and so on in your smartphone. Thus, you don’t have to carry all the original documents with yourself while traveling. So, with the advent of mobile apps, the process and the formalities towards traveling has also reduced, now you can execute an online transaction and pay your bills by using the internet. So, this is one of the most crucial advantages of mobile apps as you don’t need to carry much cash with yourself. Hence, you can easily access mobile applications at anytime from anywhere.

Accessibility towards photos and videos of destination

With the help of travel and tourism app, you can quickly get the images as well as videos of the popular places before visiting the destination as everyone is interested to know more about the place in advance. So, this helps the user to know how the place will look like and can also help in making proper arrangements as well as planning for the trip. However, travel apps, not only provide a few images or videos, but it can also help to make the user experience better. Hence mobile applications play a crucial role in improving the experience of the travelers.

So, for wrapping,’ Travel and tourism industry is in complete need of numerous mobile applications which can help to add comfort while booking because earlier travelers used to carry maps, guide books, compass, and language translators during their journey, so all these have been successfully substituted by mobile applications. However, mobile app development services have also boosted a large number of travelers or tourists to opt for the services.

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Nitin Nimbalkar
Nitin Nimbalkar

Written by Nitin Nimbalkar

Over 17 years of experience into various IT domains, I have developed expertise in developing business strategies and management.

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