by Todd Lucier on April 25, 2010
Apple has approved a Paypal mobile payment solution that works across different applications on iPhone. What this will mean is travelers will soon be able to pay for goods and services from within a wide variety of applications on iPhone within Paypal. Ditto for Android phones.
The next phase of development for tourism business apps will be to integrate Paypal payments; making it easy for mobile phone users to pay for tourism services from the palm of their hand.
Frankly, I’m not sure why more restaurants haven’t offered diners the option of paying their tab using the existing Paypal app. Seems like a no-brainer to me.
by Todd Lucier on January 17, 2010
My conversation with David Janes @dpjanes (Discover Anywhere Mobile) asks the question:
Are a you Destination Marketing Organization or a Destination Make-them-spend-more-money-in-your-region Organization?
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In this 40 minute conversation, David and I cover a number of interesting content ideas for destination apps including:
- underestimating the growth of mobile
- understanding the needs of digital traveler
- the importance of finding the right partners
- marketing Web apps in a destination
- the importance of GPS location relevant data for the traveler
- the irrelevance of regional boundaries
- how Discover Anywhere Mobile does the work of integrating destination content into the app including: remapping the themes of experiences, events calendar, tracking changes (adding, modifying and deleting content for the host dmo) – so there is no need to upload your content to a content management system.
- why an app living on a device is more valuable than a Web app and why hosting data on the app is vital for minimizing data pull (roaming charges) for out of country users
- augmented reality
- integration of social media with real time communication from twitter users in the destination
- direct communication with the dmo from the app
- the importance of having Web Savvy staff at your DMO and partners in your community.
- issues and opportunities with making handheld payments from within an app.
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What do you think are the obstacles and opportunities of handheld applications for regional destination marketing organizations?
