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Our mobile tour guide app will guide your visitors from one point of interest to the next using GPS. Our tour builder allows you to create a tour route that takes your visitors anywhere you want — you're not restricted to roads or major pathways.

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Self Guided Tour Software with Audio

With our Self-Guided Tour Software with Audio, your visitors can easily access an image and listen to an audio description by scanning a QR code directly on their smartphones. Our Self-Guided Audio Tour Software is a modern way to link visitors to fascinating sites in a city or area of interest. Self-walking tours provide a flexible way to explore and discover an area at one's own pace. Our software enables businesses to design custom walking tours that highlight the unique features of their city or display. With ease, businesses can create tours featuring descriptions, photos, and audio for each site. The Self-Guided Walking Tour Software is an effective tool for promoting the area and boosting tourism, while also allowing visitors to explore and learn about new areas on their own terms. Visitors can access images and audio descriptions directly on their smartphones by scanning a QR code. No app is needed to be downloaded by your customer.

• Visitors can use our system without the need for an app.
• It's easy to use and set up.
• Our system provides customers with instant access to useful information.
• Our system is touch-free.
• Audio playback allows visitors to listen and learn about your exhibit.
• Hi-res QR codes are generated for printing by our system.
• You can help offset the cost by selling ad space at the bottom of your exhibit mobile pages.

Self Guided Walking Tour Software

Our Self-Guided Walking Tour Software is versatile and has multiple applications. It's not limited to exhibitions such as museums or halls of fame, but can also be utilized in various settings to educate and guide visitors. Our software can be integrated into college campuses, hospital buildings, office complexes, and other locations. Using our Self-Guided Audio Tour Software, visitors can simply scan a QR code to access an image and listen to an audio description on their smartphones.

How can we pay for it?

Our solutions is based on how many visitors you have coming through your guided tour. You'll also have the option to showcase an advertisement at the bottom of mobile web pages by scanning the generated QR code. this could be a local restaurant or discount at your gift shop. You are able to also add a link to the restaurant or not add one. You have full control over the content of your ad and you can set your own ad pricing to cover expenses. Each stop will have it's own ad. We do not take a portion of your ad profits, as our only aim is to see you continue using our platform.

Create self-guided tours with Loquiz Tour Builder

Create rich self-guided tours for tourism using Loquiz Tour Builder

Design your walking tour using our builder platform and make it available through our app! With our Tour Builder you can build self-guided, audio, bicycle, walking, nature and bus tours for your customers. Using rich content - from audio guides, images, and video to optional gamified elements - will give you the possibility to create truly exciting tourism experiences.

Your self-guided tour will work indoor and outdoor, in cities and nature

Any smart device can become a virtual tour guide using the Loquiz app. Once downloaded to the smart device, tours work offline. This allows you to create tours in remote areas in nature without wifi or mobile data connection. Tour operators, museums, theme parks and hiking trails can make their destination interactive and accessible for groups and private visitors alike.

Add your languages and branding quickly to personalize the self-guided tours

Loquiz Tour Builder allows you to include logos, brand colors, your own designed map pins, hand-drawn and historical maps or even client-specific details. Personalization boosts the experience of both alike: tailor-made tours for one client and city tours, guiding thousands of visitors. Loquiz app is available in any language- real or fictional.

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Sign up and create self-guided, audio and city tours that delight your customers! Start from the scratch or use existing templates for a speedy start!

Create tours that delight visitors and grow your business

Watch how tourism professionals create self guided tours with the loquiz tour builder platform:.

Integrate to ticketing systems and scale up your sales

Using Loquiz Tour Builder you can integrate the tours you create with ticket sales platforms Fare Harbor, Bókun by Tripadvisor, Shoproller to automate and scale your sales. You can give your team more time to create quality tours and expand the business. Learn more about booking platforms

Powerful tour content management

Loquiz Tour Builder allows you to create location descriptions, arrange them on the map, add audio guide and visual materials, change, and reuse tour content quickly.

Clear analytics about the visitors

You will get an overview of customer statistics, locations visited, feedback and interactions with the content you created for their tour. Built in gamified survey questions, photo tasks and chat make it effortless to use data to drive new sales

Try live example Paris tour from your home!

Download Loquiz from Google Play or Appstore Scan QR with Loquiz app and start your virtual travel to Paris. If you are in Paris, you can play it also in the city! This is just one example of tours you can build with Loquiz!

How to create a self-guided tour?

There is a special tool under game templates that allows you to create tours quickly and easily. Tours template allows you to add layers for points of interest into the tour i.e. cafes, museums, photo locations, rentals etc. Tours can be made from scratch with the Loquiz creator as well with as many gamification elements you need. Check out a sample tour in Paris! 

How are tours with gamification elements different from audio guide solutions?

Tours can have gamification elements but they are not compulsory. You can add interactivity with photo and video tasks or use the classic audio guide sound files.

Can I have the app in my own language?

Yes you can have tour app in any of the over 6000 languages on Earth and even imaginary ones. All content within the Loquiz app – from buttons to menus – can be edited by you.

Is Loquiz a web-based or app-based tool?

Loquiz Tour Builder which lets you create the tours is a web-based platform, meanwhile, once you create the tour they are made available to the users through the Loquiz app, which is available on Android and iOS. Your customer’s smart device thus becomes their virtual tour guide, and the app can be used both online and offline.

How much does Loquiz tour builder cost?

Loquiz has several pricing packages – you can find out more about them on our pricing page. You also have the option to try it free for 14 days before you start your subscription.

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18 Best Websites & Apps for Self Guided Tours

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Don’t like traveling in groups? Do you prefer to experience a destination on your own?

Discover the best apps and sites for self-guided tours and enjoy an interactive way to navigate through an attraction or a location while also getting the benefits of a traditional tour guide.

Pick your favorite provider and be your own tour guide for your next holiday. 🙂

Best Apps & Websites for Self Guided Tours

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The simple to use app builder for sharing your stories.

Visitors love engaging and interactive experiences — especially when they can easily use a mobile app on their own device to dig deeper. We make creating guided or self guided tours and those experiences easier. Turn your tours, walks and audio guides into a feature-rich, custom branded mobile tour guide app and web app stories with STQRY Apps.

Features Pricing

Add images, audio, text, map info and custom features with our simple web-based tour builder.

Test and publish your app with the press of a button, sharing it instantly for mobile web, iOS and Android.

Enrich your visitor experience. 
Your users can experience anywhere, even offline.

Update content at any time using our app builder. Publish changes immediately for your users.

What makes us different?

Online app builder

Our simple online platform lets you build everything from a single tour to a state-wide portal. It’s completely flexible and customisable to meet your needs. If you can use a web browser, you can use the STQRY Builder.

Custom mobile and web apps

Engage your visitors with a custom branded app that works on and offline, in a mobile browser or native app — no need for WiFi or cellular data once it’s downloaded. Add your content and publish it for mobile web, iOS and Android. Your app includes full accessibility features and support for multiple languages.

Customer support

We offer amazing ongoing customer support, all over the world, available via email, phone and web chat. Plus we push regular new features and bug fixes direct to our builder and your app, all at no extra cost.

STQRY Apps features

Powerful mapping.

Satellite, street, and terrain maps means there’s a perfect option for your tour, or you can add a custom map of your own, including indoor maps. Maps show the users GPS location and nearby points of interest.

Multiple tours and collections

Offering different routes or tours or want to publish your whole collection? Your app can include multiple guided tour options, so you can categorise by place, theme, or anything else you want.

Accessibility

Create inclusive mobile tour apps and audio guides that everyone can enjoy. Options for visitors who are visually or hearing impaired include voiceover and image descriptions. Multilingual support lets you reach more visitors, with 50 languages supported.

Geofenced alerts and iBeacons

Want real-time engagement? Send visitors location-based notifications using the technology built into their mobile device. Geo-fenced alerts are great for tours covering a wide area, and iBeacons can trigger audio or immersive, location-specific content when visitors approach.

Interactive fun

Turn up the fun to challenge and motivate your visitors to interact using games and quizzes, as part of their tour experience.

Premium content

Your app can support free tours, in-app purchases and content that can be unlocked with a code.

Our robust analytics console provides you with location traffic and click behavior, so you can build a complete picture of your app’s performance.

Real-time content updates

Something new to share? Make changes to your content through the STQRY builder, and updates will be pushed to your app in real time.

Support for all media formats

Enrich the visitor experience with audio, images, and video content. You can even take it to the next interactive level with 360 content and Augmented Reality (AR).

Advanced user permissions

Admins can manage multiple users and apps, or allow multiple users to create and manage content in 
one place.

Plus more, including…

• iOS, Android and mobile web support
• Custom branding and app themes
• New software updates at no extra cost
• Single use download codes
• Background notifications for when visitors aren’t using the app
• Sponsorship and advertising integration

Testimonials

STQRY’s intuitive platform was the perfect choice in creating a mobile Campus Tour app, allowing prospective students and campus visitors the chance to experience Yale outside of our established hospitality offerings.

I love this park, you guys are doing a phenomenal service providing this tour and the park is gorgeous. Outstanding marks all around.

It’s not something where you need to be an app developer. You don’t need to have specific skills because [STQRY] provides so many different options.

Plans & pricing

Geofence alerts and beacons, rich media support, custom branding, content restrictions, supported languages, local & specialty.

Pricing varies based on requirements

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Enterprise plan

All plans include….

• Multiple project users
• Multi-lingual support
• No cost bug fixes and upgrades
• Dedicated onboarding & ongoing support

Things you should know

• Setup fee of $1995 for native apps
• Native App add-on is $50/month ($600/year)
• We can offer discounts to small organizations on a limited budget. Ask what we can do .
• App Store account fees are the responsibiity of the client (free for certain non-profits)
• Bug fixes and upgrades at no additional cost

Additional Services

Need help with app building, content creation, signage and more?

Our App Concierge service starts at just $1500/year and includes 3 hours per month of content uploading and app editing.

We also offer a wide range of content creation services including translation, audio production, script writing and more. Take a look at our additional services . 

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Every Place Has A Story To Tell. Expand Your Audiences Even During COVID-19 - TravelStorys high quality tours can be built and enjoyed onsite and remotely, especially designed to enjoy from anywhere.

Find A Tour Near You. Drive, walk, bike or paddle along a tour route at your own pace. Stories about where you are — the history, wildlife, culture, and more — will automatically play as you go.

Hands-Free. Heads Up. Start a tour and let our technology do the rest. Less like an app and more like a private tour guide, TravelStorys works offline and inside a pocket. Download a tour, hit the play button, and focus on your surroundings instead of your device.

Featured tours, check out our newest tours, piermont on the hudson, the history, the river, the village, welcome to arco, idaho, first in the world, explore kirksville, a historic downtown & more.

Explore the early beginnings of the vibrant village of Piermont. Learn about its connection to the Hudson River, its role in the American Revolution, its industrial past and its commercial significance to the country.

Welcome to Arco, Idaho! Arco is a place of transition, where the desert plain meets the mountains, blue streams disappear into black lava, and the urban of Idaho gives way to the wilds of Idaho.

Welcome to this walking tour of Kirksville, Missouri! This tour will take you to Kirksville’s most fascinating and historically significant landmarks, while sharing the stories of the people who made this such an interesting city.

What Users Are Saying

“Awesome App - A must have app for anyone who enjoys learning more about the area they are in. While being entertained by great stories and information. Great job!!!”

“Great idea! - What an innovative idea! So enjoyed my first tour (of Red Mountain Park) by using your app. I look forward to using it at other attractions in the future and have high hopes that all cities will offer this first class format to help enhance the experience of traveling.”

"We used this app in Jackson,WY and through Teton National Park. As we drove through Teton NP, we listened to the historical story of the area. It gave us so much more understanding of the area and added so much to our drive. It’s really easy to use and added so much to our trip. Would gladly use it again."

“Awesome app - This app is great when traveling around Wyoming. The stories told make you appreciate what you are driving or walking through! A must have whether you are a local interested in the history and wildlife or a tourist on the go!”

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“Excellent app! - I love this app! We used it on a recent trip through Grand Teton Park and it provided us with a depth and breadth of information (regarding the park) to which we would not otherwise have access! I look forward to seeing what other tours will be added. Great work!”

- IloveWyomingandtheTetons

“Fantastic road tripping tool! - My family used TravelStorys to plan our trip to Jackson Hole and this app was indispensable! We listened to several of their tours through the Tetons and absolutely loved it. The app spoke to us while driving, so we didn’t have to look at the phone once!”

“Great app for traveling families - When you approach a destination, the app will automatically start, you don’t need to do anything but listen. If you don’t want the audio, you can read the text. There are also great photos for each section. The stories are quirky and fun and both kids and adults will find them interesting.”

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“Great app with great potential - I can’t wait until there are even more stories! Great idea.”

“Great App. A must have for self guided, easy to use interface!”

“What fun - Turns a normal drive into a fascinating history lesson”

“Fun tour app! - Learned so much without hassle!”

“Sooooo cool!! This is the best app I've ever used. If your traveling to new places use this app to learn the history! Couldn't live without it!”

- Ray Kennedy

“Eye opener My family and I have traveled to Wyoming many times but we always seemed to visit the same old places again and again. However this app allows me to check out new places I've never even considered before. I guess there is a lot more to the state than Yellowstone. Can't wait to plan new adventures.”

“Indispensable! Used this app to plan and then tour the Tetons and surrounding areas. Our whole family was entertained and we learned so much! And it's free. Thank you TravelStorys.”

“I like it, great idea! Music and Radio only lasts so long on road trips. This app is awesome because it tells you stories about what you are driving by, and gives you cool info about the area. Great idea!”

- William Davis

“Loved this! My sisters, mom, and 7-year-old niece used this app as we visited the Grand Tetons and Yellowstone. It was wonderful! It really helped us feel a connection to the mountains and places we toured. I want this for everywhere I go now!”

- R. Tynker

“Love it, learn the history of where your traveling too via this awesome storytelling app. Love the vocals for the great Smoky Mountains! Grateful!”

- JillianPress

“Great! Local travel info & stories. I love this app. I learned a lot about the Jackson, Wyoming area & Grant Teton Nat’l Park. I have already recommended it to folk who connect with my own local Jackson based business, xcDogs. Everyone I speak to about it loves the idea…”

“Excellent adventure stories for the Grand Tetons”

- Rick Aune

"For new visitors paddling on a sunny day, the new TravelStorys app is an opportunity to understand the ecological and culture significance of the area. At home or in the classroom, the voice narration coupled with photos can entice and enhance the experience before a canoe even launches."

- NewJersey.com

"Great app for visitors & locals - This app rocks. Learned so much about Jackson Hole and the surrounding areas just by having my phone on me. Anyone who is adventuring in the wild Wild West should consider having this app on their phone. You’ll be surprised with how much you can learn on your trip!"

- Austin Hopkins

Neat app! Great for a frequent traveler or history buff! Very interesting stories about pikes peak! Can't wait for the Garden of the gods tour!

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The easy to use tool for creating digital routes for tourist and cultural sites

Mysmartjourney is a platform used for the creation and the design of scenarios of cultural or tourist mediation without contact. use our tool to build informative, useful and entertaining multimedia digital journeys to impress your customers, visitors and users..

No application to install, it works on all devices, 100% web! No friction points.

Our contactless technology can be installed in minutes, wherever you want it. Ready-to-deploy.

Play, experiment and invent infinitely renewable experiences. No programming required.

Winner of the 2022 Award of Excellence!

We are honoured to have been awarded the first Bourse Excellence from MT Lab and the Québec tourism ministry. It recognizes MySmartJourney as an actor of change and innovation, producing a positive impact for tourist organizations. 

No development!

Be empowered to create unique and fun experiences.

Tour builder for museums, art galleries and historical sites

Broadcast text, visual, video and 3D content using our platform. Replace your audio guides! No more need for paper programs. Highlight your content that is waiting to be presented to the public. Take advantage of the variety of your content to amaze your visitors. Enrich their visits and give them an incomparable experience thanks to engaging content, highlighting the works presented.

Tour builder for associations, circuits and tourist routes

Flexible and adaptable, our contactless broadcasting tool serves as a 24/7 signage system to provide tourists with take-home information. A digital alternative to the front desk, MySmartJourney can be implemented in remote locations or rest stops traditionally without an on-site agent to tell the story of the area and showcase local attractions. In addition to regional tourism associations (RTAs), it is also useful for sectoral tourism associations (STAs), regional county municipalities (RCMs) and business development corporations (BDCs).

Tour builder for municipal parks, walking trails and resorts

Whether it's a treasure hunt or an escape game, MySmartJourney allows you to provide your members and citizens with rich and fun experiences. Create self-guided outdoor play routes over short or long distances and revitalize your public spaces.

Tour builder for hotel establishments and traveller services

Provide your customers with informative content about your establishment's services and nearby tourist attractions. Keep your customers on your platform and give them the opportunity to consume the products and services you have to offer, delivered directly to their room during their stay.

Tour builder for artisanal producers and agri-food products

With its ease of use outdoors and at markets, MySmartJourney is used to create interpretive activities and automate the reception of visitors to family attractions. Tell the story of the family behind the business. Create direct communication with the buyer by deploying it at a market checkout. On products at the market, scan or tap to explain the manufacturing process and give recipe ideas.

Rapid deployment in all your public spaces

Our digital tool is quickly deployed in your public spaces. It serves as interactive signage, a docking station, a guided tour, a table order, or a relay to reservation systems. With their cell phone, visitors can instantly access your multimedia content without an application, without logging in, and above all, without physical contact.

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Simple and intuitive, a variety of features on a scalable platform..

Text, images, videos and audios

• Integrations with YouTube, Vimeo, Soundcloud
• mp3 playback
• Optimization and automatic media adaptation

Action buttons and redirections

• Quiz and "fortune cookie" games
• Modular and playful appearance
• Links to other websites

3D and 360° content

• Integrations with Sketchfab and YouTube 360
• Observation of an object in detail
• Immersive value
• Complex scenarios and puzzles
• Content behind passwords
• Gamification of locations

Google Forms

• Elegant Google form integration
• Visitor satisfaction survey
• Easy collection of field data
• Personalized souvenir photo
• Integrated stickers and branding
• Social sharing with landing page

Orders from a distance

• Quick management of menus and product lists
• Sending order emails to the kitchen, a guide or a supervisor
• Respect of sanitary measures
• Specific content according to weekly schedules
• Independence of alternate sections in the same page
• Real time information for the visitor
• Integration with anonymized Google Analytics
• Automated reporting
• Visitor behavior data

We are at your service

MySmartJourney is a platform created in partnership with the industry. It is updated and enhanced with your feedback and input. We create new features that make the digital experience more intuitive and fun. Do you have a specific need? Talk to us! We are always listening to improve our technology.

80+ projects in a variety of industries

Our clients are heroes! 

We pride ourselves on being present in many industries and supporting a wide range of organizations in their multimedia projects. Our clients choose us because our solution drives visitor engagement at an affordable cost. Deployment is done in record time, and moreover, you collect valuable data on visitor behaviour in real time!

Implementation

• Autonomy for your teams
• No code, delay or IT requirements
• Quick to deploy or prototype
• No more projects that drag on and on
• Access to usage data
• Eligible for funding

Finally a versatile and affordable interactive web application creator!

For all your needs of diffusion or cultural mediation: interactive courses, audioguides, quizzes, games... If you can imagine it, you can do it!

The perfect solution to develop captivating experiences for your cultural or tourism organization

A 100% web tool with no friction points: a user-friendly platform for creators, and content accessible via all smartphones!

Creating physical digital experiences for everyone

Adapt your exhibitions according to the clientele

Quickly and easily create scenarios adapted to the different audiences of your venue or attraction: age, interest, level of knowledge of the works, theme, etc. You can reach different types of visitors with different media. Enrich your exhibits with an audio guide or explanatory videos. The narration can be done by a curator, a mediator, a guide...

Multiply the visits by varying the available contents

Turn a static exhibit into a dynamic experience. Offer different variations on the same theme. Regular visitors will be happy to come back often to your premises to discover an artist and their work from another perspective.

Distribution of content without contact or equipment

Your visitors or customers can experience your digital journeys or the content you make available to them with their own mobile devices: phones, tablets, laptops. All they need is a web browser and they are ready to go! The user does not touch anything, they only needs their mobile device to access the content immediately when they arrive at a point of interest.

An economical, safe and management-free technology

Say goodbye to technology installations that are costly to produce and maintain at your tourist, historical, heritage or cultural site. MySmartJourney works both indoors and outdoors. Create safe experiences for your employees and visitors. No more routine cleaning after use and no more maintenance of expensive electronic equipment.

Easy and quick to implement

The access points are available in various formats in the form of posters. They can be set up independently. Implementation on your site is fast.

The enriched posters can also be easily moved (and their content modified to fit the new context).

Real-time content updates

Any modification, correction or improvement appears immediately on the visitor's cell phone thanks to our digital path creator. It only takes a few minutes to enrich your scenarios, adjust information and introduce new content to your visitors.

No programming knowledge required

Ease of creation is a key feature of our content management system that you will use to build your digital journeys. Build your scenario directly in the web application. Layout is easy, multimedia content is added intuitively (drag and drop) and game modules are simple to set up. No need for an intermediary between you and the visitor's experience.

Accompaniment available

While MySmartJourney's digital journey builder is easy to use, we are always available to guide and inspire you as you design your first scenarios. We offer warm and quick support.

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Choosing a self-guided tour platform? Read this first

• What is VoiceMap?
• Why are self-guided tours worth doing well? 
• Why do you need the right tools and a bit of help to produce a rewarding self-guided tour?
• You’re in the right place

Welcome to VoiceMap, and to this, the first page of our documentation for tour producers. It provides an introduction to the platform, but it’s also supposed to convince you of three things:

• Self-guided audio tours are worth doing well
• It’s much easier to do them well if you have the right tools and a bit of help
• If you accept points one and two, you’re in the right place

We’ll break all of those down in a moment, one at a time, but before we do that, it’s probably helpful to describe exactly what VoiceMap is, in case you’re just getting started .

What is VoiceMap? #

To most people, VoiceMap is an app for both indoor and outdoor self-guided audio tours. Outdoor tours have an interface that emphasises navigation and they play automatically using GPS. This works equally well for walks, cycles, drives, train rides and even boat trips. Indoor tours have an interface that emphasises curation.

We say “an app”, but strictly speaking you can do VoiceMap’s self-guided tours using our iOS app for iPhones and iPads , our Android app , and our web app , which works in browsers like Google Chrome and Safari. Automatic GPS playback only works in our iOS and Android mobile apps, which you can also use to do tours offline, without mobile data.     

In addition to its apps, VoiceMap is a publishing platform. The term “platform” gets thrown around a lot these days, sometimes incorrectly, but VoiceMap is both a technology platform and a platform business. It’s a technology platform because it brings together a set of technologies that make it easy to produce, distribute and consume audio tours. It’s a platform business because it has a marketplace that joins up supply on one end with demand for these tours on the other.

In the middle is the part of our platform that is most important to tour publishers like you: Mapmaker , which takes the guesswork out of producing audio tours. It comes with hands-on support from our team , who have experience across thousands of tours. It’s also the product of eight years of iteration and improvement. Mapmaker does things like estimate talk times – and word counts – that match travel times from one location to the next. It has text to speech audio so you can test your tours easily and often, long before you’re ready to record. Then, when you are ready, we’ll help you produce beautiful mp3s with whatever equipment you have available, including your smartphone.

Why are self-guided tours worth doing well?  #

About 10% of VoiceMap’s tours are free. The rest cost between $2 and $20. That isn’t expensive, but self-guided tours are peculiar products because even when their price tag says free they come with a number of subtle costs. 

There’s the transport that got you to the starting point, most obviously, and there might be entrance fees along the way, but the real cost is often time – and, as a result, the opportunity you aren’t taking to do something else. While this feels especially true when you’re travelling overseas and you only have three days in Paris or two nights in Tokyo, leisure time is valuable wherever you might be, and it’s the high cost of disappointment that we account for when we work with you to produce a rewarding tour. 

Listeners are disappointed when they get lost because the directions from A to B weren’t clear and they’re disappointed when audio quality makes it difficult to hear the tour on a busy street. They’re disappointed when there’s too much talking while they stand around without much to see, and they’re disappointed when there’s too much silence along the way because the length of the audio doesn’t match the length of a walk. 

It’s easy to disappoint them, basically, and they get especially frustrated when they feel like a tour is wasting their time. We know. They tell us. But they also tell us when a tour worked so well it felt like magic and our inexpensive self-guided tour ended up being the best experience they had in Rome or Istanbul or Rio. 

Why do you need the right tools and a bit of help to produce a rewarding self-guided tour? #

Our team has done self-guided tours all over the world. We’ve observed other people doing them too, staying a step behind listeners to watch them navigate an unfamiliar route. We get constructive criticism from producers all the time, when they test their tours, but most of all, we get feedback from listeners, who’ve posted more than 10,000 ratings and reviews so far.

Over the years, we’ve learnt how to get the basics right consistently, to avoid disappointment. We’ve worked out what surprises and delights listeners too. You’ll find our shortlist of the ingredients here .

You’re welcome to disagree with us on any particular item on that list. We know they don’t apply equally to every tour. But we’ve designed our tools and our process to give you the benefit of our overall experience, and the experience of everybody who has given us feedback over the years. 

This is why Mapmaker estimates a talk time and word count that matches the travel time between locations. It cuts out the trial and error of doing the same thing manually. We use text to speech audio for the same reason: to save you from recording the tour’s voiceover again and again, when you make improvements after each and every test. But it’s ultimately the collaboration with our team that we hope you’ll find most valuable, and with Mapmaker, both you and your VoiceMap editor can see tracked changes and leave location-level comments with automatic email notifications.

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Producers are occasionally reluctant to get an editor involved in their tour. But if you accept that self-guided audio tours are worth doing well, we hope you’ll also accept that we’ve thought really carefully – for years – about what this actually means. We’ve made plenty of mistakes along the way, of course, and the goal of VoiceMap’s tools and processes are to help you avoid those mistakes so you can publish the best tours possible as quickly as possible.

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How many hours per week does your residential leasing team spend scheduling tours for single family or multi-family rentals? Scheduling residential property tours can be incredibly time-consuming and require comprehensive staffing without the right technology in place. 

With BeHome247 self-guided tour software, prospective residents have the ability to book and tour a vacant property securely—without the need of an on-site representative. Our fully-integrated system not only allows the prospect to confirm a self-guided tour in your custom, white-labeled portal, BeHome247 further verifies their identity to ensure your property is safe from fraud and intruders.

• Prospect books a self-guided tour online in a few clicks.
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BeHome247 Software: From Prospect to Resident

BeHome247 is a unified operations platform that both facilitates and organizes essential prospect and resident communication into actionable automations. When the prospect indicates they’re ready to sign a lease, the resident app kicks off the lease agreement workflow. Then, as a new resident, maintenance requests via the Resident Connect app automatically generate a work order, and ongoing communication is seamless thanks to a unified inbox.

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Our self-guided tour software for single family properties allows property managers to integrate our cutting-edge software seamlessly with smart home technology. By integrating with leading hardware providers like dormakaba, Z-Wave, Honeywell, and more, keeping your single family rental property both secure and tour-ready is a breeze with BeHome247’s unified operations software.

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Parks and trails build tours to teach visitors as they enjoy outdoor experiences. Teach visitors about the animals, plants, geographical formations and history that makes your park or trail unique!

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Visitors can purchase and listen to self guided tours created by tourism providers. This provides an additional source of income and a way to promote attractions and local businesses. See what Your Audio Tour can do for you!

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The world is full of beautiful and enjoyable drives. Why not enhance visitor's driving expereince by adding an audio tour? It can help provide additional historical and educational content to bring greater appreciation to the drive itself.

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YourAudioTour has been the perfect solution for us. Over several years we looked at a lot of options to create an audio tour for our Art Walk, but this was by far the easiest to create, best looking finished product, and on top of that we received super customer service! Kim, Yountville CA

Great customer service! YourAudioTour implemented custom stop identifiers and QR code integration to help us create the tour we wanted. We love that the tour works on any type of phone and it is easy to share online and in person. Our visitors are loving it, keep up the great work! Joshua, Cleveland OH

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The custom audio option allowed us to build the tour we wanted. Excellent customer service helping us through the whole process! Sarah, Waterloo ON

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Here are the reasons selftour surpasses all other tours....

All turn-by-turn directions and descriptions are spoken for easy to easy navigation and understanding. Our tours are a complete circle so you end up where you started… not some unknown location!

All information is activated by GPS as you move.

No waiting at a specific time for others to show up. Go when you want, take a brake anytime, and resume at your own pace and schedule.

Should you make a wrong turn, there is a complete map indicating all the sites along the way. Also pictures of the individual sites are available to insure you are looking at the right sight.

Our travel experts do intense research choosing the best sites to see and the accurate information you want to know about each.

Both are available. The platform used in our apps is new technology engineered by iApp Tours using exclusive mobile software.

No more straining or pushing to get close to hear the tour guide. The audio comes directly to your ear buds or car stereo system.

If you missed something in the audio description, or didn’t understand the directions, no problem! Simply touch the position on the phone or tablet map and it will play again.

Excellent writers and professional voice actors, music, sound effects and a light delivery style make the listening fun.

Tour at a fraction of the cost of other paid guided tours. Even “free” guided tours pressure you for a “tip” or to purchase something in the guide’s “favorite store”. Our tours have no advertising or referrals.

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Language: English Type: Driving Tour — Great for Biking Too!

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HISTORIC PHILLY

WASHINGTON DC - WALKING TOUR

ROME ETERNAL

WASHINGTON DC - DRIVING TOUR

Language: English Type: Driving Tour

THE FRENCH QUARTER

BARCELONA GOTHIC QUARTER

DUBROVNIK WALLED CITY

PARIS LA CITÉ

PRAGUE - CITY OF HUNDRED SPIRES

SAN ANTONIO RIVER WALK

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“Best buy for the money. I took the tour half way in two leisurely days. Perfect.”

We particularly enjoyed the back roads the tour featured.  Narrow tree lined roads, picturesque landscapes, charming houses, and some hidden wineries where you could sample some very good wine for less.  A beautiful tour through a beautiful area.  I’d do it again.

This tour is very interesting.  I enjoyed it.

Loved the tour.   It was an easy walk and the music and narrators made it fun.

Loved the ghost stories.

“I have been to Sonoma and Napa several times, but I always ended up doing the same thing because I didn’t know were to go or what to see. Using your app opened my eyes to a lot of things in the area that I would have never seen. All the info about wine making was also interesting. I also enjoyed the jazz music. Good job.”

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As a tour operator, you’re already aware of the operational challenges you face. You need to manage customer bookings, schedule transportation and plan out daily activities, arrange entry to the sites your groups will visit, select the best local guides… and that’s only the beginning.

Now take a step back and ask yourself: What do many of these challenges have in common? They’re all, to some degree, challenges that require communication and organization. Thankfully, communication and organization are two things that software is very good at helping you manage. Tour operator software is software that helps you do just that.

In this Buyer’s Guide, we’ll cover the following questions and topics:

What Is Tour Operator Software?

Common features of tour operator software, what type of buyer are you, benefits of tour operator software.

Tour operator software is computer software that’s tailormade to assist with the bulk of operations required to run a successful tour operations business. While there other genres of software that can help with this— CRM software , for example—these solutions often require additional tools, or expensive customization, to do what tour operator software can do out of the box. 

Of course, no two tour companies are exactly the same, and that’s also true of tour operator software. To get the best return on your investment, it’s important to choose a solution that aligns with your specific needs.

Many tour operator software systems are deployed in the cloud and sold as Software as a Service (SaaS). This means companies pay for a subscription (monthly or yearly) to the software and can then access it from any device with an internet connection. This can be a huge benefit for on-the-go tour operators, as it lets them access software features directly on their mobile phones.

Businesses looking for more tools to manage lodging and flights might be interested in evaluating travel agency software .

The key to selecting software, regardless of your industry, is to begin the selection process by carefully considering the following questions:

How can software help us with our most common and repetitive tasks and workflow processes? The key here is to find software that will support and add efficiency to your existing operations. It’s rarely advisable to purchase software that will require drastic changes to your day-to-day operations, unless those changes are necessary for a new business strategy.

How can software help us meet our (forward-looking) strategy goals? If your company has plans to create a better online experience for guests, for example, then this should be kept in mind when weighing your many software options. Changing a company’s software infrastructure is often the most effective way of ensuring strategy goals are met.

After considering these questions, you can further narrow your list of options by asking the following:

What software do our business partners use? If you rely on third-party services for any aspect of your tour operations, consider how your software purchase could improve those relationships. For example, if a hotel that you work closely with has a particular hotel management system , you should consider how well your own new system might integrate with the hotel’s system.

At which locations will we need to access our tour operator software system? Some tour operators may only need to access the software from one workstation in their office. Others might need to access it from mobile devices, so guides can access and update information while out on a tour. This question will help determine which deployment model to opt for and help plan your budget for individual software licenses.

Increase customer satisfaction: When software handles some of the mundane tasks of running a tour operation, you and your staff will have more time to focus on the people that count: your customers. Many tour operator software systems also allow for customer and guest feedback, helping you stay on top of any complaints, compliments or suggestions for improvement.

Avoid double booking: Tour operator scheduling software can be a silver bullet for all of your scheduling woes, helping prevent double-bookings, among other things. The software is designed to track and manage multiple concurrent schedules, and some even do so in cooperation with your third-party business partners. It can even help prevent no-shows by sending well-timed reminders to customers with upcoming trips.

Increase sales of value-adding services: With payment portals and click-to-add purchasing capabilities, tour operator systems can improve your sales performance by increasing the value of individual transactions. For example, when a customer is about to book their beach tour, the software can ping them with an offer to add on a dive trip or snorkel equipment rental.

Improve insight into business operations: Ever wonder why some customers seem to love the special deals you offer online or through email marketing , while other customers only commit to purchases they discuss in person? Tour operator software supplies the data and insight needed to identify trends among your customers and answer questions like these.

Increase employee satisfaction: Tour operator software takes much of the busywork out of running a tour operation. With fewer repetitive tasks in the way, staff can spend more time focusing on customers and improving the business. It’s also worth mentioning that employees can become more engaged when they’re asked to do fewer repetitive mundane tasks.

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