Development Ideas

Project ideas

Tourism Tracker

A bit similar service to Sports Tracker[1] but for tourists. For example, a person travles to a city and wants to take a 45 min walk. She takes a look at the Tourism Tracker app in her phone. There is one particularly interesting route created by a tourist that visited the city earlier but it is not next to her hotel. The app gives good navigation instructions, so she gets to the route succesfully and after taking the route back to the hotel. Afterwards, she recommends the route to other app users and also shares the experience on facebook to her friends.

This idea was presented in the HSL Developer Day on 16.5.2013.

There are various tourism applications available, so good research on existing services and apps should be done. Also, if this service is not implemented by acompany that can fit it to their existing business model then for a startup business model as well as other parts of the business plan are important.