Vienna at your fingertips

VISITORS to Vienna can now gain access to more than 60 of the city's most popular attractions, tours and museums directly via their smartphones with the newly launched mobile version of the popular #Vienna PASS sightseeing card (www.viennapass.com).

The mobile Vienna PASS places the best of the city at the visitor's fingertips and makes it possible to use the pass within seconds of purchase. An email booking confirmation contains a link to the free Vienna Guide app for iOS or Android devices, which acts as a platform to download the mobile pass. The Vienna PASS customer then simply scans the app's barcode straight from their smartphone to gain entry at a featured attraction.

The app also acts as a digital guidebook, containing full details on all Vienna PASS attractions as well as maps of the city and essential tourist information. Once downloaded, all of the app content including the mobile Vienna PASS is available without an internet connection.

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Never get lost again

MAPS.ME for Android presents an innovative way for you to stay informed when you're on the move. Whether you're doing a cross-country tour by car, out cycling or just having a stroll around a city you're not familiar with, this simple app serves as an invaluable utility to help you get to where you're going. 

It comes with offline maps of thousands of cities across some 200 countries so that you don't need to keep spending money on mobile data when you're out and about. There's nothing missing either, thanks to the fact that the maps are always kept up to date. The latest edition also adds more rapid transit plans, so that you now have subway routes and more for well over 100 cities around the globe. Customize and bookmark your maps and access them offline.

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Travel Japan with a local

TRIPFRIENDS, an SNS application dedicated to introducing tour guides to tourists, which the company SeaCalls has developed based on the concept that "Traveling alone is no longer lonely."

Tripfriends, fully compatible with Android and iOS, attracts many keen travelers, helping them find nice food at places visited, experience Japan's culture and look for partners to enjoy various activities.

Tripfriends is recommended to people who would say:

I like traveling alone but would sometimes like somebody's company
I want to interact with locals
I want more people to know about my town
I want a social networking site where users love traveling
I want to make an album of my travel memories and share it with my friends
I love hanging out with people more than anything

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Walk this way

Walkingworld, the popular online #walking #guide with over 6500 walks in England, Scotland and Wales, has released an #app giving access to its entire library. The app, available for Android™ and iOS™ phones and tablets, can be installed for free. Walks are downloaded to the device for offline use.

The Walkingworld library has been built up over 17 years but this is the first time the routes have been made available through a dedicated app. The app has been created in partnership with national mapping agency Ordnance Survey, which provides digital mapping through their ‘OS Maps’ service.

Walkingworld guides are designed to be very easy to follow. They are built around a set of geo-located waymarks, each of which marks a major decision point on the walk. Waymarks consist of a photograph - so walkers can readily identify that they are in the right place - and clear instructions to the next waymark on the walk. The app allows the walker to switch easily between the waymarks and their location on a map, where their current GPS position is also displayed.

www.walkingworld.co.uk

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India launches app to clean up tourism sites

#INDIA has launched an app which the government hopes will improve the cleanliness of its tourist destinations. 

The Swachh Parayatan mobile app will allow the public to lodge complaints about rubbish at tourist sites across the country. Initially, 25 monuments protected by Archaeological Survey of India have been included in the app, but this will be- scaled up to include more sites in future.

The app enables people to take photographs of the trash and upload them to the app, along with their comments. The app sends a text message to the person responsible for the site, who will arrange to have to rubbish cleared. A confirmation will be then sent to the complainant by SMS.

The app is already available for Android devices, and will soon be rolled out for Apple and Microsoft smartphones.

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