The well-known hotel chain Intercontinental has launched a new application for the iPad that aims to become an essential tool for many travelers. This application provides rich content on all destinations chosen by its users. This new application has been designed in order to take advantage of the knowledge of essential people in all the hotels in the chain: their goalkeepers.
Goalkeepers are the best guide that any traveler can find just outside the door of the hotel in which he is staying. These know the best restaurants, the most recommended area to go shopping, where you can go for a drink, etc. The application has information from more than 120 Destinations. Other features included in the application are: interactive maps, streaming video of the specific destination, suggest new itineraries, advice on going to the airport and detailed information on the hotel where you are going to stay and its capacity.
Although the Applications of travel guides from different publishers, such as the Lonely Planet, have multiplied in a very short time, the content of this new application seems to be quite hard to become a good competitor.
In August, the hotel chain Fairmont They published their own application, which offers a similar selection of information so that tourists can enjoy their chosen destination on vacation. An InterContinental spokesperson has commented that these types of applications will improve more and more every day, as the Travellers They do not stop using this type of wireless devices to find all the information they can about the destination they are going to.
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