The new age traveler is always on their smartphone or browser - tools they use to research and plan their trips. In a market replete with ad-saturated platforms, tourists crave a community-level understanding of locations that comes from local sources.
Driftscape, a powerful travel app available for Android, iOS, and the web, empowers its clients, including DMOs, RTOs, tourism organizations, outdoor attractions like Pioneer Villages, and museums, to reach a wider audience, increase their destination's exposure and make their stories heard. The ad-free, digital SaaS platform is designed to help clients make their destination engaging - while catering to the evolving needs of their visitors.
Dan Pronovost, Driftscape CEO, says, "Our app puts clients in control by enabling them to tell their stories in their voice and showcase their unique attractions and assets. We seek to manage community-level data assets for community-level benefit.”
With budget and resource limitations building custom apps, maintaining websites, printing materials, and other promotional initiatives are often unattainable for most organizations. Driftscape is the perfect solution to promote a destination while overcoming these challenges.
As a shared platform, each new destination added to Driftscape means more to explore; bringing visitors together from everywhere and benefiting everyone - all at a fraction of the price of building your own app.
Its easy-to-use content management system allows clients to make changes at any time - at no additional cost. Their customers have access to quickly create and update content in formats like videos, audio tracks, or photos, or those with existing databases can easily connect to the platform to add information through APIs.
The interactive map feature (Driftscape for the web) empowers clients to sync content instantly on both the mobile apps and their website, giving them more time for other projects
Adding to the goal of providing an affordable discovery platform, clients can grow exposure for their local businesses inexpensively with Driftscape’s automated business listing feature. To create awareness, destinations leverage QR code technology and deep links, enabling them to direct visitors to specific content in Driftscape.
This app is free for explorers and is packed with features that allow its users to tour destinations in an engaging way. Proximity based notifications help them discover sites that users might otherwise walk by. Added to this, they can immerse themselves in interactive experiences like scavenger hunts, augmented reality quests, and 360 tours that virtually guide tourists through must see spots.
Self-guided tours are another compelling feature within the app - its autoplay functionality allows users to focus on their surroundings while they go on a hands-free, guided experience.
Our app puts clients in control by enabling them to tell their stories in their voice and showcase their unique attractions and assets. We seek to manage communitylevel data assets for community-level benefit
This is just one instance that showcases how the Driftscape team helps its clients achieve their goals. A glowing testimonial by Melissa Van Soelen, Manager at Interlake Tourism Association, reads, "Our partnership with Driftscape means we can continue to grow our network, provide engaging experiences to visitors and maintain ourselves as Manitoba’s Interlake, a tourism destination of choice.”
What enables Driftscape to deliver customized assistance is its team of customer success professionals, content creators, audio staff, designers, and translators. They intently listen to clients to build features that are most important to them.
Driftscape has grown its presence across Canada over the last six years and is ready to expand into the U.S. With new chapters to be written, Driftscape remains committed to pushing the boundaries of digital tourism.
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