How Advanced Features in Travel Apps Enhance Your Journey

If you want to work effectively in the tourism segment, you will definitely need travel mobile app development by the Lampa.dev team. Only we can build a comprehensive product for you, which will help your audience overcome all challenges along the way, optimize costs, and simply relax comfortably.

Just imagine that the value of the travel industry and trips will be worth over $1.063 trillion by 2028. At least, that's what experts at Statista predict.

If you want to be part of such a successful and profitable industry, you definitely need your own specialized product—a mobile app, to be precise.

By leveraging the experience and skills of the Lampa.dev experts, you will achieve the desired result—a comprehensive mobile travel app that will effectively monetize due to its value for the target user segment.

The Evolution of Travel Apps

Since around 2010, the market has gradually become filled with various mobile apps and even specialized devices designed to assist tourists or travelers on their adventures.

However, while earlier travel application development focused on creating GUI and integrating GPS into system functions, now we can see a variety of digital solutions.

Among the most well-known categories, we can mention:

• Travel apps with advanced features.

• Accommodation booking apps and flight booking apps.

• Travel planning apps.

• Travel guide apps and tourism apps.

• Travel packages management apps.

This is just a brief list of specialized platforms that have essential features and help with travel, the travel business, and more.

However, not all modern products have the potential to cover all user needs. That's why you now have an almost historic opportunity to create your own IT solution that will conquer the market.

Key Features of Modern Travel Apps

Today, the typical consumer of digital products is unlikely to be surprised by any features of a travel mobile app. The segment is already saturated with solutions that use modern technologies like GPS, AR, and AI. However, in most cases, all of the above is just the initial phase of travel apps development and does not fully reveal the system's potential.

Lampa.dev, the travel app development company, employs a somewhat different concept of digital products of this type, so you will gain competitive advantages with us. We use everything at once to build a travel app as comprehensively as possible.

Therefore, during mobile app development, we add critical and auxiliary functionality that enhances the user experience of the target audience and effectively monetizes. Here are a few examples of such components.

Personalized Itineraries

When a person visits a specific region, for example, for tourism or business purposes, they may not have time to wander aimlessly through picturesque streets. And even ordinary GPS navigation may not be sufficient, especially during peak times.

That's why modern app features should be based on personalization and flexibility in route planning conditions. For example, through the use of artificial intelligence in application development and its final iteration to ensure the best travel UX for the audience.

AI in the digital product can gather data from open sources regarding road conditions, traffic loads, and potential travel times to destinations. Therefore, it will create, perhaps not direct routes but the most optimal ones in terms of resource expenditure.

This is really useful if there are restrictions on the terms of stay in a particular region or there is no desire to linger longer than necessary to achieve goals.

Real-Time Language Translation

Those who traveled abroad ten years ago know how inconvenient communication with the local population or even with government representatives can be. This can lead to discomfort or even a visit to the local police station in the worst-case scenario. And even having a heavy dictionary or a tourist phrasebook rarely helps.

With app development services from the Lampa.dev team, you can implement both a standalone and built-in translator that allows travelers to communicate with locals through their smartphones.

Moreover, with the current level of AI, it is already possible to implement a textual and voice translator that will process the tourist's words in real-time and output phrases or complete sentences in the target language.

That's why modern capabilities of travel applications are beneficial for users and have significant prospects.

Augmented Reality Navigation and Exploration

Tourism app development can offer the audience more than just navigation and real-time translation between languages. For example, an AR system that, through the camera, allows for a more detailed study of cultural landmarks, acquaintance with local architecture, and exploration of infrastructure.

However, this feature can negatively impact both the travel app development cost and the cost of the journey itself. It uses not only mobile connectivity for internet access but also processes vast amounts of information and translates it using AI.

Nevertheless, if you want to develop a travel app and maximize app monetization, it's worth integrating AR as an option so that users can apply it as needed.

But it's not worth spending the entire budget on this module since there are more important components for a travel mobile app, such as the travel booking system.

Seamless Booking and Payment Integration

If a user has not pre-booked a hotel room, called a taxi, or ordered a return ticket in advance, they may encounter inconveniences. Your task as the owner of a specialized mobile application is to help them come out of the situation as winners.

That's why we recommend integrating, via API, at least popular services for booking transportation seats, motel rooms, hotel rooms, and restaurant tables.

It's also worth connecting (or at least mentioning in the app) local emergency service numbers, such as the police, ambulance, and fire department. Perhaps this will save the life and health of your customer, further enhancing the reputation and popularity of the application.

In other words, it's not worth skimping on modules that help tourists provide themselves with accommodation, transportation, and food. Otherwise, you risk losing a significant portion of your revenue.

Social Sharing and Community Building

What's a journey without sharing experiences with friends through a mobile travel app? Sometimes, you want to share photos with your friend list, add tags for potential followers, or maybe comment on the work of a local establishment.

The social component is an important part of modern comprehensive mobile travel apps. It allows the audience to exchange thoughts about certain places, find support in difficult situations, facilitate networking, and more.

That's why our development team at Lampa.dev recommends not ignoring this component during travel app development and paying enough attention to it to provide users with a more complete tool that helps them in their travels.

Perhaps this is the last example of important features in tourist apps today, but even the current list is not exhaustive, especially since the segment is actively developing both conceptually and technically.

The Technical Backbone of Advanced Travel Apps

Advanced frameworks and technologies are used to create modern tourist tools. Our team uses solutions such as React Native, Python, Swift, Kotlin, and associated SDKs, and it also adds various machine-learning models and trains them as needed.

AR is no exception. We implement it into our products to provide the target audience with more opportunities to explore the locations they travel to.

Regarding the justification of such investments, they have a powerful ROI, which sometimes reaches even 1000% (calculation specifically in the context of one feature) and sometimes exceeds this indicator. Overall, it depends more on targeting and monetization models, which should be optimal and justified.

The Future of Travel Apps

You don't have to be a futurist to imagine the prospects for niche development. If even modern AI is capable of taking digital products for tourists to a fundamentally new level, then AGI, which will soon debut on the market, will completely transform the niche.

Moreover, there are more and more smart gadgets and even implants that can enhance the UX of frequent travelers. For example, accelerating the collection of information about the environment, its analysis, and digitization.

There are also assumptions that in the near future, we will see fundamentally new mobile devices and communication tools with holographic displays, voice control, or even brainwave control. Therefore, it is worth preparing and planning how to further transform digital products into new types of gadgets.

Conclusion

Every mobile application has its audience and is intended to meet the specific needs of both customers and businesses. Therefore, it's crucial to develop with a comprehensive view, considering the interests of all parties and incorporating potentially beneficial functionality that can also be monetized.

If you're already working in the industry and want to improve an existing product, or if you're just planning to enter the market and want to create a new solution, the Lampa.dev team is at your service.

Just delegate your project to us, describe your requirements, and we'll take care of the technical implementation. Ready to discuss the task? Contact a Lampa.dev manager.