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Traveling is hardly possible at the moment, if at all. But the coming year raises hopes for holidays and exploring distant lands. Holiday-hungry people can now plan and prepare for their next trip. Both in the area of travel and tour planning as well as safety and communication, there is valuable assistance via app. If you want to get your mobile phone into holiday mode now, you should have these most important travel apps on your smartphone.
These apps help you plan your trip before you go on vacation and are also the perfect companion during your travels.
With more than 40,000 round trips from more than 2,500 carefully selected tour operators, TourRadar is the largest online platform for multi-day round trips. No matter what adventure travelers dream of - hiking to Machu Picchu, sailing along the Amalfi Coast or discovering the Big Five on a safari - TourRadar has the right trip to make all dreams come true. Using the app, the user can be connected directly to the tour operator of their trip - Perfect if there are any questions before departure or if a rebooking needs to be requested. Until now, the app has primarily specialized in supporting customers before and during their trip. With the re-launch of the app in November 2020, TourRadar is giving all users the opportunity to explore and book trips quickly and easily via the app. Also helpful is the "Free rebooking" filter, which can be used to find trips where it is possible to select a new travel date or another trip and/or receive a travel credit if plans change after booking.
The TourRadar App is for iOS and Android and is available free of charge.
The international travel planning and price comparison app has already been downloaded by over 90 million users worldwide. For good reason: users can find the cheapest months and dates for their flight using the color-coded calendar and chart view when they enter their travel dates. Using the "Flexible tickets" filter, only offers from airlines with tickets that can be rebooked or canceled are displayed. Hotels and rental cars can also be conveniently searched for in the app. On the Covid map, users can see an overview of the world map - click on the countries to find out the latest travel advice - it is also possible to receive travel updates for the desired destination. Those who are not yet ready to book in the current situation can save selected flights - and also return to their last searches.
The Skyscanner App is available for iOS and Android and is available free of charge.
In the coming year, many holidaymakers would also like to stay in a vacation home, as contact points can be reduced to a minimum there. Vacation accommodation has therefore already boomed in 2020: those who spend their vacation with family or friends in their own vacation home feel just as safe as they do at home. This app is particularly fun when planning a trip: hometogo.com searches over 2,000 holiday accommodation websites, including Airbnb, FeWo-direkt and Booking, offering the world's largest selection. HomeToGo users can use various search filters such as "free cancellation" to search only for accommodations that offer this service. Also helpful is the filter "detached" - here users can only find accommodations with distance to other houses. The app also allows users to create watch lists on the go, which can be shared with friends and family and further edited at home on the big screen.
HomeToGo is available for iOS and Android and is available free of charge.
If you decide to stay at a hotel, you can use the HolidayCheck app to prepare for the coronavirus conditions on site. Many holidaymakers ask themselves how well the safety regulations are implemented in the hotel, whether the staff comply with the mask requirement or how breakfast works without a buffet. Since summer 2020, the booking and review portal HolidayCheck has already registered tens of thousands of reviews relating to the coronavirus situationThese are specially marked in the app. This allows travelers to get an idea of their desired hotel before booking and decide where they would like to book.
HolidayCheck is available for iOS and Android and is available free of charge.
Whether it's a hike, road bike or mountain bike tour: last year, many people learned to explore places on their own doorstep and in the surrounding area in new ways. A great tip for this is komoot: 16 million people around the world already use the intelligent outdoor route plannerwith insider tips from the komoot community, inspiring hand-picked tours and practical voice navigation. Whether it's your own city, vacation destination or nearby recreation area - new tours help you discover nature in a new way.
get to know. Some routes even help you find alternative sightseeing routes in popular big cities and cleverly avoid crowds. Komoot is the world's leading planning and navigation app with the largest digital community of outdoor experts in Europe.
Komoot is for iOS and Android and is available free of charge.
These apps support you during your journey and give you peace of mind.
Like a guardian angel when traveling: The Global Monitoring App for smartphones actively notifies users of dangers at their current location/travel destination via push messages. Due to natural disasters and global risks, the issue of safety when traveling is becoming increasingly important. For example, the app warns of political unrest, terrorism, strikes, hurricanes, tsunamis, earthquakes, epidemics, crime, etc. The Global Monitoring App informs users about hazards and events in their respective surroundings. This means they receive important warnings and instructions directly on their cell phone.
The Global Monitoring App is available for iOS and Android and is available free of charge.
The ERGO travel insurance provides all customers who have taken out annual insurance or student and au pair insurance with a mobile travel and safety companion in the form of the ERV travel & care app. The app provides valuable assistance at the vacation destination and offers detailed information for up to 200 travel countries. It not only provides information about safety and travel warnings, but also shows police stations, pharmacies and hospitals in the vicinity. Users can also use the app to find embassies, petrol stations, ATMs, restaurants and places of interest. A color coding system also categorizes the current risk assessment for the respective travel destination. Customers who need to report a claim can do so conveniently via the app. It is possible to test the app at any time, even as an uninsured person, for a period of 30 days.
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In uncertain times, it is particularly important that travelers feel safe and, above all, well informed. So if you are thinking about which destination is the right one in times of Corona, you can keep up to date on the security situation and entry requirements with the Federal Foreign Office's Safe Travel App - directly from the most relevant source. The app also contains a checklist for travel preparations and the addresses of the travel countries' representations in Germany. In the event of an emergency on vacation, there are also numerous tips and the option of using the "I'm OK" button to send a sign of life to those at home if, for example, the security situation at the destination suddenly changes.
Travel safely - your travel app is available for iOS and Android and is available free of charge.
These apps allow us to communicate with our loved ones while on vacation.
Of course, travelers also want to send their loved ones a vacation greeting from their Corona vacation. Especially those who are traveling away from the crowds this year and avoiding the crowded tourist hotspots may not find a postcard on site and would prefer to send their own photo of the camper van or the view of the sea from the vacation home anyway. With the MyPostcard app, users can quickly turn their own cell phone photos into personalized, "real" printed postcards. MyPostcard takes care of the printing, franking and worldwide dispatch.
MyPostcard is available for iOS and Android and is available free of charge, postcards cost from 2.19 euros including postage.
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