Audio Tour App Detour Steers You Away from the Typical Tourist Traps
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Re: Audio Tour App Detour Steers You Away from the Typical Tourist Traps
#2This looks great - I was just in Italy for several and wishing for something like this, completely in shock that it doesn't exist yet.
I can't see any way to sign up for notifications when it's ready - or even a company website. I guess I'll just hope I come across it when it's fully baked.
Re: Audio Tour App Detour Steers You Away from the Typical Tourist Traps
#3This looks great - I was just in Italy for several and wishing for something like this, completely in shock that it doesn't exist yet. I can't see any way to sign up for notifications when it's ready - or even a company website. I guess I'll just hope I come across it when it's fully baked.
Hi - if you go to www.detour.com you should be able to add your name to the notification (early access) email list.
Re: Audio Tour App Detour Steers You Away from the Typical Tourist Traps
#4This looks great - I was just in Italy for several and wishing for something like this, completely in shock that it doesn't exist yet. I can't see any way to sign up for notifications when it's ready - or even a company website. I guess I'll just hope I come across it when it's fully baked.
Hi - if you go to www.detour.com you should be able to add your name to the notification (early access) email list.
Hey Andrew...another direction you, Yishai, etc. should / can go would be subject areas. I would imagine culinary/food tours would be great in the areas you guys are targeting. They could also be kept pretty fresh as restaurants/bakeries/breweries, etc. wax and wane.
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#5Nice concept, i've always wanted something like this, but here in south america and I suppose everywhere in the world, unless you speak the local language, for a tourist is pretty hard to avoid these traps and get to hang out with the locals.
Maybe the app will take the wikipedia route and let the people share their tours.
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#6My wife and I used an app similar to this on our honeymoon in Hawaii. We had the option of paying $300 for a guided tour, or paying $5 for an app and going our own pace. The app made that day one of the highlights of the trip.
Re: Audio Tour App Detour Steers You Away from the Typical Tourist Traps
#7Nice concept, i've always wanted something like this, but here in south america and I suppose everywhere in the world, unless you speak the local language, for a tourist is pretty hard to avoid these traps and get to hang out with the locals. Maybe the app will take the wikipedia route and let the people share their tours.
User driven content on something like this seems like it would pretty quickly lead to routes popping up which lead the users to the author's "not a tourist-trap" restaurant or store.
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#8Maybe I missed it, but does it require a data connection? Overseas, a lot of tourists aren't going to have internet outside of their hotel.
Re: Audio Tour App Detour Steers You Away from the Typical Tourist Traps
#9My wife and I used an app similar to this on our honeymoon in Hawaii. We had the option of paying $300 for a guided tour, or paying $5 for an app and going our own pace. The app made that day one of the highlights of the trip.
That sounds pretty cool! Do you happen to remember the name of this app?
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#10Maybe I missed it, but does it require a data connection? Overseas, a lot of tourists aren't going to have internet outside of their hotel.
No, there will be an offline mode for our open launch.