Map-based apps for small business, provinces, cities, DMOs, parks, universities, museums, hotels, restaurants, etc.
The Power of an App
More and more of your visitors are carrying an Apple or Android smartphone. The power and potential of these mobile devices are incredible. Just imagine being able to offer:
- Beautiful interactive maps that locate the phone and everything around.
- Immersive tours that show your visitors around and tell them all about you.
- Comprehensive and up-to-the-minute visitor information, right at your visitor’s fingertips.
- A strong connection with you, your staff, your site, your brand.
Inside a Go Explore Everywhere app
Go Explore Everywhere apps are: immersive, intuitive, interactive, informative, in the moment, income-generating,
in touch with your brand, incredibly flexible, accessible:
Immersive
At each stop on your map – we call them “points of interest” (POIs) – tell your visitors what they’re looking at with a rich and entertaining mix of audio/video, photos, slideshows, text and weblinks. Coming soon: Interactive games and promotions such as scavenger or treasure hunts, mysteries to be solved, or trivia contests.
Intuitive and interactive TOP
For outdoor tours or areas, Go Explore Everywhere apps lever the power of Google Maps and GPS. For indoor tours, an interactive map combined with discrete signage or bar-coding shows your visitors where they are.
If the visitor is trying to find something in particular, they can search all the information on your app by category – where to find the closest bathroom, for example, or what their nearby snack options are – and then get turn-by-turn directions taking them there.
If a visitor is close to something you’d like them to take particular note of – an upcoming event, for example, or a special promotion – the app alerts them with a sound or a buzz or a message.
Informative TOP
Go Explore Everywhere apps deliver as much information as your visitors want.
The information flows both ways: Go Explore Everywhere apps capture anonymous user data, giving you a much clearer sense of where your visitors tend to go and how long they stay.
In The Moment TOP
Go Explore Everywhere apps know where they are – right now – and can tell your visitors what’s going on right now and promote upcoming events so they come back.
Income-Generating TOP
Like advertising in a printed tour guide, or discount coupons handed out to passers-by, Go Explore Everywhere apps give you the opportunity to invite your business partners and neighours to connect with your visitors.
In Touch With Your Brand TOP
You have control of your app’s look and feel. Your colours. Your logos. Your messaging. Your app.
Incredibly Flexible TOP
You and your staff can create your Go Explore Everywhere app through our web-based Tour Builder™ platform. You don’t need any special software and only minimal training. Simply log in to the secure website and, within minutes, you or somebody on your staff will be building your app. You can add, change, and remove content whenever you want – instantly. Or we could do this for you. Your choice,
Visitors can download or stream your tours:
- Users without inexpensive cellphone web access (they have an iPod Touch, for example, or a cellphone plan with high roaming charges) can download complete tours.
- Users with inexpensive cellphone access can stream the tours.
Accessible TOP
Go Explore Everywhere apps allow you to deliver tours and information to a variety of visitors through multiple languages, including sign languages, and captioning.
Out of the box and ready to go.
Go Explore Everywhere apps, including our own giant Go Explore Canada, are already up and running on Apples and Androids, with more to come.By partnering with us, you could have your own app up and running within a couple of weeks. If you have a website, you already have much of the content you’ll need: text, photographs, and video that show you at your best. Use it today to start harnessing the growing power of your visitors’ smartphones.
Subscriptions
- As little as $299 a year for a listing on Canada’s most popular travel app: Go Explore Canada.
- $7,900 a year for your own self-branded app featuring a map that has up to 50 multimedia “points of interest” (POIs).
- $15,000 a year for your own self-branded app with up to 150 POIs ($10,000 in subsequent years).
- $37,500 a year for your own self-branded app with unlimited POIs ($25,000 in subsequent years).
- Call for prices on the GPS Ranger hand-held units you can rent out at your location.
Embrace smartphones without building your own app
Go Explore Canada is the country’s most comprehensive and successful travel and tourism app. It is already being used by thousands of people to find things to do, places to eat, and accomodations in every province.
For as little as $299 a year, you can put yourself on Go Explore Canada’s huge and growing map:
- Make it easy for your customers to find you with turn-by-turn directions right to your door.
- Entice your customers with photos, videos, and text.
- Alert your customers to events and promotions.
We are coders, designers, content creators
Go Explore Everywhere is a unique partnership between a Canadian multimedia production firm and a Texas software developer focussed on the travel and tourism industry.
Pedersen Productions has produced a variety of network television and online video, including the Canadian version of The Antiques Roadshow. The Halifax-based company is now focussing on the creation of content for mobile apps, and is the authorized reseller of BarZ software in Canada.
BarZ Adventures is based in Austin, Texas, and has been developing GPS-based tourism software and hardware since 2005. Its products and tours are available at tourist destinations across the United States, including a number of U.S. National Parks.