The Dubai-based travel technology start-up Guiddoo was set up last year as a smartphone alternative to expensive tour guides and travel books for leisure travellers.
Entrepreneurs Nidhi Varma and Vineet Budki have now launched the Guiddoo app, that allows travellers to download tours, maps, images, textual and audio information about sites – from the Taj Mahal and the Colosseum to Dubai’s Al Fahidi Historical Neighbourhood. The content is collated from registered tour guides, online sources such as YouTube and through collaborations with tourism boards.
The app currently offers tours for 78 historical sites in 25 countries, which can be accessed without an internet network once downloaded. An upgraded version, to be launched on Monday, includes new destinations and tourist spots, allowing for in-app booking of activities, hotels and a 24-hour help service. In the future, they plan to develop services with Google Glass and Oculus.
After downloading the app from Apple and Android stores, users can access free features with their social-networking accounts or through Google. For now, audio tours to all destinations can be downloaded for a one-time fee of Dh7. The creators will revise the payment model, bumping up the cost of each destination to about Dh18 in the new version.
Original article by Afshan Ahmed
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