Tourism
Travel and tourism app development: features that earn a place on the home screen
May 2026 · 6 min read
Destination guides, tours and attractions, city passes and DMO apps — the feature set that keeps a tourism app open during the trip, not just before it.
Pre-trip apps get deleted; in-trip apps get used
Inspiration is a web job. An app earns its install when it does something during the trip: tickets, maps that work offline, timed entry reminders, and support that answers.
The core feature set
Bookable tours and attractions with timed slots and capacity control.
Offline maps, downloadable guides and audio tours.
City pass or wallet-based ticketing with scannable redemption.
Personalised recommendations grounded in your own content, never invented.
Operator tools: scanning, capacity, no-show handling and settlement.
Measure retention, not downloads
The number that matters is sessions during the stay per installed traveller. Everything else is vanity.
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