2. Problem
People need to reach/explore
several places (within and outside the city)
Gather information from
Internet – the main source
friends
Word-of-Mouth
Available search engines, travel apps –
globally based
Little information for locally significant areas in the
city
3. Mobile Platform
Almost every persons own a phone
- most of the phones are smartphones
Growing use of mobile for internet along with
voice & text based communication
Search-while-go possible only through mobile
4. Application:Lumbini
Lumbini – birth place of Gautam Buddha
- UNESCO world heritage site
Interesting and Interactive travel guide for
Lumbini
Requires an internet connection
For android devices
5. Application:Lumbini
Features:
- Introduction & History of Lumbini &
Buddha
- Holy Sites
- Location based interactive maps
- Photo gallery
- Various ways of reaching to places
- Available hotels & transportation services
- Reviews
6. Testing Value Proposition
Hypothesis
- Lack of adequate online information site or apps, to search
for places, service, stations, and other facilites in a city.
- Available website or apps not localised enought to provide
more factual information about the place.
-People will love a travel guide app for their smartphones that
would provide the information regarding the various places in
a city.
-The app should also provide the review of the services, any
offers, etc.
7. Testing Value Proposition
Experiments
- Focused upon a particular city "Lumbini" for app
development.
- Created a prototype of the Lumbini app.
- Carried out online survey with fixed set of questionnaires
- Interviewed few users face-to-face
- Allowed selected users to use our app.
8. Testing Value Proposition
Results
94 % people relied on the
internet to search for the
places.
91 % people used search
engines for their
search, 26% used mobile
apps.
9. Testing Value Proposition
Results
Mostly android apps were
popular with apps from
Foursquare, Yelp, Tripadvisor, L
onely Planet, Tripso, Aroundme.
Even though, there were plenty
of apps available, people still
wanted better travel guide app
(almost everyone)
10. Testing Value Proposition
Results
The features we had proposed
in our model were accepted
warmly.
Required information about
these areas in the app & web
based system
- Fooding
- Weather -Environment
- Clothing -Entertainment
11. Testing Value Proposition
Results User suggested features:
-Timing Information
-Cost
-User Participation
-Videos
-Web based version
-Events & History
Majority of users are ready to
participate, and would love to
integrate the participation
through social networking sites.
12. Testing Value Proposition
38% owned some business Around 60% business were not
registered in any online map
services.
Business owners were willing to
post ads, provided good user
base.
13. Market Analysis
Revenue source
- Advertising space in-app through business vendor
- Nepal Tourism Board
- Hotel owners, Market place owners, Travel Agencies,
Airlines etc. of the local area
- 59% of the respondents with business showed lack of
confidence in the advertising success of an in-app ad,
- while rest were willing to pay upto 100$, which could
increase upto 2k – 3k dollars.
Estimated Market Size (only for Lumbini) : 60,000$ per
annum
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15. Conclusion
Many informative apps & websites available,
but almost none provide the insider
information of the city.
Both mobile app as well as web based.
Cost, user participation, timing, videos, history,
etc. should be added to the app.
With these feedbacks incorporated, this project
is worth pursuing.