Travel has always been one of the booming industries, thanks to the never-ending quench of travel enthusiasts, Leisure travel is also considered to be one of the most satisfying ways for people around the world to ‘spend and also be happy about it’. And to add to its sheen is the online advantage to Travel.
Travel is now more accessible and hassle-free than ever before – thanks to the consumer-friendly travel websites and travel apps. Here are a few awesome statistics that’ll make you ponder of the idea of building your own travel website and travel application.
Global Online Travel Sales 2014-2020 Chart (Sales in Billion U.S. Dollars)
Total Travel Searches Chart: Desktop vs Smartphones vs Tablet
When you are creating a travel website or application, keep your eyes open. Research on what is trending, to get an insight about what your target market (the travel enthusiasts) is searching. And make sure you analyze the User Search behavior (by device used) in the Travel industry as they differ for website and mobile app users.
Analyze user search pattern and interest, to decide the apt travel website and app features for MVP that are popular and in-demand.
Keep an eye on competitor travel apps and websites. Research and read reports on what are working and what is not.
But remember, is of no use cloning a successful product. Find out the ‘good to have’ features the popular product is missing and build your own MVP for travel.
If you are a travel enthusiast looking to build a travel website or a travel app, you must have come across this very question umpteen times – How much does an app like Uber, AirBnB, Yelp or Trivago cost?
Well, it will cost you a lot of your hard-earned money for sure. But before you take that BIG leap inspired by their thumping success story – here is a word of caution from the experts at Techtic.
Instead build a minimum viable product (MVP)for your travel app idea and once you are convinced of its potential and its need for the target audience, build a full-fledged travel application.
This calls for the need to choose the most viable business strategy, and clarify the purpose for which you are building a travel app MVP, along with identifying the most common use cases. Here we discuss the most viable features for each kind of Travel application:
Building a travel planning app like TripIt, Foursquare, Google Trips, or Passbook usually starts at USD 55,000 for a web app and USD 75,000 for web and one mobile app.
Interestingly, 85% travel apps have the navigation and geolocation feature, and this is integral even if it is in the MVP or beta version.There has been a steep rise of 150 percent in the Near Me searches in Google Map since 2018 – strongly indicating the dominating effect of this feature and the search engine.
Building a navigation app like Google Maps, Maps.me, Waze, Google/Facebook Places starts at USD 40,000 for one mobile platform.
The average development price for building a booking application like Booking.com, AirBnB, Expedia, Kayak, etc starts from USD 55,000 for web platform; and from USD 75,000 for web and one mobile platform (Android or iOS).
Building review and rating apps like Yelp, Trip Advisor and Trivago with its API approximately cost USD 50,000 for web and from USD 65,000 for web and mobile platform.
Building an app like Uber, Lyft, Careem or Grab would cost USD 60-70K for web platform and from USD 85-95K for web and one mobile platform.
Ideas and innovations have never found the glory as they do now in the era of startup revolution. With startups disrupting the way ideas are conceptualized and executed, what finally matters is to build products that customers will buy. Period.
With product development demanding investment of your time, effort and most importantly (hard earned) money to give shape to your idea, weigh in the viability of your product idea by building a Minimum Viable Product.
When you build an MVP before developing your final product, you get to assess and estimate the validation your product would receive in the market. You could find out if your idea (and not just your product) has a place in the market and how effective it would be when you launch.
Rolling out an MVP also gives you insights on the actual market response to your product. The response could be both positive and negative reviews. While you can optimize the positive aspects of your apps, you can take corrective measures with the negative ones. It’s a win-win anyways.
Continuing our last point, an MVP can fetch you some critical feedback about your travel app’s functionality, UI or others. Without getting frustrated, it’s better to hear them out as they would help give better shape to your final app.
With the critical feedback, you now have to pay attention to areas of improvement, identify loopholes and fix them. These criticisms are of high value as they directly come from users, who have worked on your MVP.
So, now you know what an MVP is and its importance in the development cycle. Developing an MVP can minimize your loss, save your product from getting flagged and fetch you more rewards you overlooked. If you intend to develop a MVP for travel app or websites, get in touch with us. Our industry experience and expertise are all that your business needs.
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