TravelBudds is a smart-travel start-up which ambitions to create the first smart travel assistant based on artificial intelligence. In order to collect the adapted data to create the perfect match between a traveler and his dream destination for a weekend, a vacation or a year around the world, TravelBudds needs to connect service providers of the tourism sector as well as Tourism Promotion Authorities. The aim of this project was to develop the application infrastructure allowing: (1) our service providers to manage their online visibility directly to potential users through personalisable professional pages thanks to in-line editing on web and mobile, including details about their activities (opening hours, service provided, a short description, directions and visibility on map) and a photo gallery. This should allow them to work on their visibility also by sharing automatically on other social networks. (ii) our service providers to transform visibility into tangible business thanks to qualitative feedback from users (ratings, comments, shares, etc.) and a direct “book button” through the app. This project has a technical impact on the global infrastructure (backend, admin and front-end) and will also include major changes for payment possibilities.
Keywords
Smart travel; professional pages; online visibility; distribution channels; booking; payment; mobile application