Tailor-made trips: these 'apps' know what you like most on vacation
The success of platforms like Netflix or Spotify resides in the aim of its algorithms, capable of track user preferences and suggest a tailor-made cultural offer.
In the world of travel these formulas of big data also begin to have their relevance, with ‘apps’ that help to choose a destination , organize a vacation or choose what to take in the suitcase, depending on the priorities of each one and other variables such as the weather.
Ultimately, tools help us to better process all the amount of information that we can find about a trip, according to our tastes, our experience and the opinion of other travelers and experts. We tell you which are the travel apps that can best know you.
TRIP BY SKYSCANNER
Forbes baptized it as the “social network for travelers” . Trip by Skyscanner ( iOS and Android ) is one of the most popular platforms for planning a trip.
Allows users to research destinations and compare user reviews and their own travel experiences.
In addition, it works in real time with different variables, so the location, the time of day and the local weather will serve as a reference for the application when it comes to offering you the best attractions, events, restaurants or hotels.
With over a million users, it is one of the most dynamic and highly reviewed platforms, making it the a large community of travelers who help each other by discouraging visits or recommending restaurants.
COOL COUSIN
How to go visit your cousin who lives in another province or abroad. Cool Cousin intends to establish a locals network to point out their favorite places in the city, according to their interests, and tips for spending time and spending money.
Thus you will have a cousin in each city , telling you to try the typical sweet in that traditional pastry shop or trying to dissuade you from that miserable tourist trap. The application also try custom matching 'cousins' , depending on the preferences of each one, so that the experience is as reliable as possible.
TRIPOUS
Tripous ( iOS and Android ) is another app to plan your itineraries based on the weather and time of day. If you are in Madrid and rain threatens, I will surely send you to the San Fernando Market before the Plaza Mayor.
It is in English, but handling is very simple: we only introduce the destination that we are going to visit , and the app displays a map with all the information and possible plans.
Perhaps its most interesting point is that these guides can be downloaded for offline use, something quite valuable for those trips in which we do not have the precious internet connection.
Organize your trip according to the weather and the time of day you are
PACKPOINT
An app that packs your suitcase for you! Well, maybe it doesn't put things in your luggage, but it does help you choose what to take depending on the duration of the trip, the weather at the destination and the different activities that we have planned.
PackPoint (iOS and Android) It saves you headaches when dealing with your suitcase, it reminds you of what you should take if it is an international trip, if you have access to a laundry at your destination or if you have to bring an umbrella due to rain forecasts.
HOPPER
The pocket is usually the boss when deciding destination and vacation dates. With Hopper (iOS and Android) you will be able to plan your plane trips much more economically.
You just let the app know where you're going and what days you're shuffling, and you'll get a notification as soon as the price of your flight drops to its lowest point.
The best way to know if we should book a trip at the same time or wait for a better price is using the price prediction function, which has a 95% accuracy rate.
FIELD TRIP
What better than having a personalized travel guide, which only gives you information on the things that interest you. **Field Trip ( iOS and Android) ** is designed for run in the background on your mobile and send information as you move through a city and you go through places that may interest you: historical curiosities, sports, music or places to eat and drink.
In short, you select the categories that interest you most and the app notifies you as you walk. If you go with headphones, it will also tell you the information as the best urban guide.
DISCOOLVIEW
A Spanish startup has developed a powerful travel tool called Dissolver , capable of making a travel file based on your preferences and your level of previous experience in cities and places in the world, to then offer you the best route according to the time of year.
"Thanks to our technology that filters and combines the recommendations of specialized blogs, the opinions of Travel Review Sites and the final supervision of our travel experts, we can recommend places and experiences to get the most out of your destination", says Carlos Jacoste, CEO of Discoolver.
In this way, you will be able to design itineraries to your liking, away from organized plans and buses full of tourists. The app is currently in the final development phase, with only Madrid available to investigate.
KAMINO
road dispose of a map of all the cities of the world and proposes different tourist routes outside the conventional ones and on foot. Users share their journeys with useful information and photos, so the app creates a route based on the things we want to see, thanks to the testimony of other walkers and travel experts.
In the Kamino app, users share their journeys with useful information
** GATEGURU **
Traveling often involves long hours of waiting at airports; or what can be even worse, little time to change planes and find your gate.
**GateGuru ( iOS and Android) ** is designed for this type of travel, helping the user to find their way around the airport and giving them valuable information about their flight: Estimated time of departure/arrival, possible delays, the boarding gate... In addition, it will give us data about the weather and will place different points of interest on the map, such as security checkpoints, shops, restaurants, etc.
GateGuru, the definitive application to have all the information of your flight
SMART ECO MAP
Virtual assistants are becoming more fashionable when it comes to travel. SmartEcoMap , at the moment, is designed to help plan your holidays in Lanzarote, giving you advice according to the time, the weather and your interests.
This yes, with an added value, since it will facilitate to you from the same chat the reservation of the activity or excursion that you choose: this assistant works with the Echo technology, voice , so it will be like talking to a tourist advisor.