TRAVEL BUG
Planning a vacation or a corporate journey? Looking for a 5-star resort or low-cost guesthouse? When you plan with Travel Bug, you can save money on your hotel accommodation, airfare, and car rental, regardless of your trip goals. You can use this app to explore travel offers, reserve, and save wherever you go.
CLIENT REQUIREMENT
The client desired to develop an app for those who enjoy travelling. She realized how much time and work it takes to organize a trip, from booking flights to making hotel bookings and renting a vehicle. Hence the idea Travel Bug was born.She envisioned an app that offers special discounts on hotels, airlines, transportation, and excursions for the ideal trip pleasure. Individuals may use a single app to book hotels, airfare, rental cars, activities, and package offers. Travel Bug features accommodations all over the globe, including some of the greatest in the United States, including boutique hotels, luxury villas, airport guesthouses, hostels, bed and breakfasts, and spas.
FEATURES
The Travel Bug app contained the following features:
- Hotel Deals - Exclusive Offers
- Flight Deals - Compare & Save
- Rental Cars - Fast & Easy Booking
- Hotel Booking
- Customized Travel Buddy
- Pin Location Recommendations
CHALLENGES
The primary challenge was to create a UI/UX design that includes the following travel app MVP functionalities: user profile, content sharing, reservation, in-app transaction, and location-based discovery & sorting.Then, constructing a travel app API from zero, incorporating some preexisting APIs, presenting genuine statistics on airlines, hotels, and car rentals, and allowing users to make reservations.The third time-consuming difficulty was gathering content from sources such as Wikipedia and other comparable platforms to develop a customized trip companion within the application.
TECHNOLOGY STACK
The Travel Bug app consisted of the following technology stack;
- Android Native (front end)
- iOS Native (front end)
- My SQL (Database)
- Firebase (Push Notification)
CONCLUSION
Throughout the preparation for reserving, the Travel Bug app is meant to improve your travelling experience and is thus well-liked by many users. Save money with exclusive accommodation offers, jump ahead with the airline, hotel, and vehicle updates, and see your trip information whenever and wherever you choose.