How did the Vodnjan tourist board help accommodation owners and improve the tourist offer?
The Tourist Board of the City of Vodnjan has decided to help its local community. Namely, it has enabled all owners of accommodation facilities, regardless of their category, to use the GUIDE for YOU tourist mobile application for guests/tourists.
Improved quality of life in the Vodnjan area by providing a digital solution
The tourist application was created to create added value for foreign and domestic guests, and for accommodation owners in Vodnjan, significantly increase the possibilities of attracting, retaining and returning guests, as well as achieving better reviews on platforms. In addition to the above, with GUIDE for YOU, the Tourist Board has provided the entire tourism sector with an ecological solution, saving money on promotional materials and free promotion of content and services.
In addition, the Tourist Board of the City of Vodnjan has gained the opportunity to "silently communicate" with tourists, that is, send notifications via the application such as recommendations, advice and information about upcoming events.
With GUIDE for YOU, accommodation owners in the city of Vodnjan provide better service and have the opportunity to earn up to 10% when booking excursions and similar activities. Guests can also book and recommend their accommodation directly through the application. In this way, accommodation owners have reduced the use of platforms that charge them large commissions for bookings.
Read below what Dina Žufić, head of the Vodnjan tourist information center, said:
“We are very satisfied with the application that combines AUDIO and GUIDE for YOU. Our area is large, over 100 km2, and in addition to Vodnjan itself, it includes Galižana, Peroj and Barbariga and surrounding settlements. With the application, our guests have all the necessary information about cultural and natural attractions, active holidays, gastronomic offer and events in our area in the palm of their hand. For our caterers and renters, we have specially printed stickers for each accommodation unit with a QR code for downloading the application and a display of what the application offers. These stickers are free for all our stakeholders in tourism, as is the application itself. The multilingual capability of the application is also an advantage that improves the visitor experience. This summer (2022) the application was installed on more than 814 devices and we hope for even greater growth next season.”
Personalized travel app at an affordable price
If an accommodation facility, such as a hotel/apartment/villa and others, wants its own personalized GUIDE for YOU mobile application, it can be created within 10-20 working days and very affordably. Namely, the application stands out in that it allows owners of all tourist facilities to quickly implement all their wishes and needs for improving their own tourist offer within a short period of time, without paying large amounts that are otherwise required.
Although the Tourist Board of the city of Vodnjan has provided the owners of accommodation facilities with GUIDE for YOU, they can also request additional personalization of the application, such as supplementing and changing the content, as well as stronger promotion of the facility itself.