Experienced travelers know that there is more to a successful trip than simply the purchase of cheap airplane tickets or cheap vacation packages. Travel apps have come of age and now can make a meaningful difference in your travel experiences.
Travel apps have turned into a digital revolution. An app loaded phone can significantly enhance everything from planning a trip to navigating in a new city. Choosing a restaurant, whether near or far from home, becomes much easier using phone apps.
The iPhone continues to be the number one smart phone, with over 200,000 apps available. However, its competitors are quickly catching up. Googles Android Market offers about 60,000 programs, with BlackBerry offering over 10,000. The iPad is not a smart phone, but because of its online capabilities will help make apps even more mainstream.
The first travel focused smart phone apps were mainly connections to existing websites or stand alone guidebooks. Most new apps, including restaurant finders and shopping tools to navigation programs, utilize smart phones built in GPS to help find close by points of interest. There is a Primo Spot app that provides viewers with a 3-D map of nearby parking spots and garages.
There are also many non GPS enabled apps that can improve your travel experience. There is a free mobile version of a website named TripIt which is an extremely useful travel planning and management service which accesses flight, hotel, restaurant, and any other information entered into the My Trips section of the site.
Travel apps are making the world more accessible than ever.
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