The arrival of the tourist season means that more consumers are going to be hitting the road in search of fun and adventure, so the 'TourPickr' app is positioned as a digital solution to help with the experience.
The map app works by creating a specialized pulse map based on more than 400,000 tourist attractions throughout Europe. This enables travelers to pinpoint the quintessential ones to check out and even find hidden gems that aren't as popular for a more intimate experience.
The 'TourPickr' app contains a wide array of tourist attraction information including buildings, castles, nature information and more. The information is based on Wikipedia data to help ensure the most up-to-date content for travelers to use.
Key Themes Behind This Trend
- Specialized Pulse Maps
- Digital solutions that use specialized pulse maps are gaining importance in the tourism industry.
- Intimate Travel Experiences
- With travelers looking for more unique experiences customized and personalized travel packages are disrupting traditional tourism.
- Crowd Sourced Information
- Online platforms that utilize crowd sourced information are revolutionizing how travelers plan and execute their travel plans.
Where This Applies
- Tourism
- Apps like 'TourPickr' offer disruptive innovation opportunities for individual or corporate travel agencies, tour operators, and tourism boards to create personalized and unique experiences for travelers
- Mapping Technology
- Companies that offer pulse maps and location-based information to travel-related apps have significant potential to be disruptors within the mapping technology industry.
- Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Processing
- Artificial intelligence and big data research firms can potentially disrupt the tourism industry by developing advanced analytics from crowd sourced tourism information to improve tourism decision making for users.
