Complete Smartphone Coverage

According to the latest statistics, almost 40% of consumers now have a smartphone. With a Discover Anywhere Mobile solution for your destination, you’ll have your visitors covered.  We create applications for the iPhone, iPod Touch, BlackBerry and mobile web browser (“.mobi”) phones. These apps will give you almost complete coverage across all smartphones. Each version of our application is tailored to take advantage of the unique features of each platform to delivering a compelling experience.

Discover Anywhere Mobile apps can be purchased separately or bought in a bundle for additional discounts. In addition, Discover Anywhere Mobile makes available premium features for destinations which need a little more, whether it’s for social media integration, coupons, advertising or custom development.

And for a limited time, if you purchase a Discover Anywhere Mobile we’ll bundle our premium features for free. For more information, contact us and arrange a web demo.

Complete Branded Solution

It’s not a Discover Anywhere Mobile app, it’s your destination’s. Almost every aspect of your applications can be customized to your branding specifications. We include a complete “Welcome” section with no limitations on the number of pages for HTML text, graphics and videos as you need. You also have control over the images, icons, titles, themes and background colors used in the applications.

We don’t recommend heavy use of graphics in the BlackBerry and mobi applications, as this will slow down the user’s experience.

No CMS

With your Discover Anywhere Mobile apps,  you will not be creating extra management and staff work by double entering your data into another content management system. Our solution simply allows you to continue to work the way you always have: we’ll track your changes and update your mobile apps daily so you don’t have to.

Thematic Listings

To get visitors to the information they’re interested in as quickly as possible, all your listings are thematically divided into categories. Themes / categories, of course, are entirely decided by your destination and any listing can be in multiple themes. As part of our “it’s all about the user” philosophy, we show users what’s closest to them first and what’s further away next. Your Discover Anywhere Mobile-built apps will always ensure that your travelers are getting concise, relevant and timely destination information at the exact time and place they need it most.

Our “featured listing” capability allows your destination to ensure that certain listings will always appear first, creating new revenue opportunities for your DMO/CVB.

Not all smartphones have a GPS. For these devices, we display listings alphabetically or by closeness to another location.

Events Calendar

Your events calendar is an essential part of your destination’s message and promotions. With your Discover Anywhere Mobile-built apps, we make your events calendar front and center of the visitor’s experience. Your events calendar will show travelers first what’s happening now, while they’re in destination. “It’s all about the user”.

Itinerary Management

Discover Anywhere Mobile-built apps provide your visitors with great tools to build their itinerary with our “Favorites” and “Nearby Here” functions. Favorites allows a user to store the places and events they wish to visit. Nearby Here allows them to see what’s near other places – when you’re planning to go to the theatre, it’s great to know what’s near that place so you can plan for dinner beforehand and drinks afterward. It’s all about letting your visitors have that great experience they’re looking for, while promoting your member’s businesses.

Quick Contact

Discover Anywhere Mobile-built apps let your travelers call up appropriate actions with just a single click when looking at events and listings:

• go to their webpage – instant booking
• place a phone call
• send an email
• show a map route from the visitor to the location
• show what’s nearby this location
• add to or remove from favorites
• send a note to Facebook (premium feature)

All the options may not be available, depending on whether the location has the information, the internet is available, the cell network is available, and what particular type of device the user has.

Social Media

Discover Anywhere Mobile has comprehensive social media integration built into our apps. With your Discover Anywhere Mobile solution, your visitors:

• can quickly send photos, status updates and their location to Twitter, Facebook, Twitpic and Flickr as they’re exploring your destination,
• will receive your latest Twitter updates – from all your Twitter accounts, and even from the Twitter accounts of your destination partners – directly in your app,
• can likewise (optionally) receive #hashtag updates from other visitors,
• can directly respond to you from within the app to ask questions, provide feedback or just get in touch, and
• will be notified whenever you respond to them.

With social media integration in your iPhone destination app, your visitors will be experiencing your destination to its fullest, have access to destination experts in the palm of their hands, and be marketing the destination for you as they share their experiences with their friends.

For more information about Discover Anywhere Mobile’s social media integration, start reading here.

Video and Photo Albums

Discover Anywhere Mobile-built apps allow every listing and event to have a photo album of pictures you want to show your visitors. Your welcome page and all content pages can also include videos and photos.

This feature is available only on iPhones and iPod Touches.

Weather

Before planning what to do, visitors need to know about the weather. Discover Anywhere Mobile now offers live weather and forecasting for places in your destination.

Coupons, Offers and Advertising

Discover Anywhere Mobile-built apps offer great features to display revenue generating banner ads, offers and coupons from your partners. To find out more about these features, contact us.

This is a premium feature.

Augmented Reality

Discover Anywhere Mobile is proud to be the first company to offer custom Augmented Reality applications for the tourism / travel market. Augmented Reality makes it easy for travelers to find exactly what they’re looking for, even if they’re in unfamiliar territory. With Augmented Reality, instead of looking for street signs or interpreting maps, travelers need only hold up their smart phones and look around – labels will appear over real time video showing users exactly what they’re looking at. Read more here.

This feature is available on the iPhone 3GS.

Reporting

Discover Anywhere Mobile now offers comprehensive built in app usage reporting, built using industry standard Google Analytics. Track usage of your apps from exactly the same tools you use for tracking usage of your websites.

Internationalization

Discover Anywhere Mobile is fully internationalized meaning it can run in any language environment – the same application can even work in multiple languages! Contact Discover Anywhere Mobile for more details.