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New support service: Add destinations and arrival categories at scale

February 19, 2025

This week, we're launching a support service to create destination POIs and arrival categories for your guidebooks at scale. This will reduce your manual workload in order to benefit from our new personalized accommodation feature with automated day/stage category matching.

How to add arrival categories for multiple guidebooks

  1. Submit your request Open a support ticket with a request to add arrival day/stage categories.

  2. Specify guidebooks In your ticket provide the name of your destination library and provide either:

    • A list of specific guidebook internal IDs that need arrival categories, or

    • Simply write "all" to apply this to every guidebook in your account.

  3. What GUIBO will do

    1. Create a new arrival day/stage category as the first category.

    2. Add a destination POI at the start of the first route in the second category.

    3. In case such a destination POI already exists nearby anywhere in the guidebook, GUIBO will move it to the current category instead of creating a new one.

How to add destinations for multiple guidebooks

  1. Submit your request Open a support ticket with a request to add destinations.

  2. Specify guidebooks

    In your ticket provide the name of your destination library and provide either:

    • A list of specific guidebook internal IDs that need destinations, or

    • Simply write "all" to apply this to every guidebook in your account.

  3. What GUIBO will do

    1. For all categories without any destination POI, GUIBO will try to add a destination based on a complex algorithm analyzing the routes within the guidebook.

    2. In case such a destination POI already exists nearby anywhere in the guidebook, GUIBO will move it to the current category instead of creating a new one.

    3. GUIBO will provide you a list with all categories where it is not possible to create destinations algorithmically (e.g. missing transfer route within category).

Personalized Accommodation for Season 2025

January 17, 2025 (updated February 13, 2025)

We're excited to announce new personalization features coming to the GUIBO Tour Guide App, along with integration details to help you prepare your booking system for the 2025 season.

Travelers want to know exactly what to expect from their accommodation, both before and during their trip. That's why we've enhanced the GUIBO Tour Guide App to provide more detailed information about accommodation and trip dates.

What exactly is personalized accommodation?

When creating a release in GUIBO, you can add booking related information to accommodation POIs:

  • arrival date: The arrival date for this accommodation

  • departure date: The departure date for this accommodation

  • comment: Any booking specific comments (e.g. breakfast included, 3 adults)

What does this look like in the app?

There will be an updated app interface in the coming weeks:

  1. New prominent button "accommodation" at the top of the home screen with an overview list for all accommodations including arrival and departure dates

  2. Optional: start & end accommodation POI as part of each day/stage category

Automated day/stage category mapping

In case you want your hotels to be placed as start & end accommodation within the day/stage categories, you must ensure:

  1. Each day/stage category has a destination POI (Add POI → Display → Icon → destination)

  2. There is a day/stage category for the arrival day with a destination

This is required to minimize data integration costs and to allow for automated release generation, even for hotel variations and non-standard bookings (e.g. additional nights). Based on the distance to the destination POIs (< 5km), GUIBO assigns all start & end accommodation POIs to the right day/stage category.

Update API-Integration

1. Release arrival and departure dates

Update your API integration to include booking dates for the overall trip when creating releases:

...
"arrivaldate":"2025-01-22",
"departuredate": "2025-01-25"
...

2. Accommodation details

Provide the arrival date, departure date as well as any comment or description along with the accommodation POI as follows.

...
"additionalAssets": [
   {
       ...
       "arrivalDate":"2025-09-05",
       "departureDate":"2025-09-06",
       "comment":"A generous breakfast buffet is included"
   }

🚀 Modernized GUIBO Web Portal & launch of GUIBO Network 🚀

December 8, 2024

Two major updates, one goal: simplicity and efficiency.

We’ve revamped the GUIBO web portal with modernized UI technologies, making the interface more intuitive. This upgrade also allows us to implement future innovations faster and more flexibly.

In addition, we’re excited to announce the GUIBO Network (Beta) – a powerful new feature that enables tour operators and agencies at GUIBO for seamless reselling.

1. New web portal navigation

Click the buttons for a quick walkthrough of the new release dashboard. Make sure your sound is turned on!

2. New release dashboard

Click the buttons for a quick walkthrough of the new release dashboard. Please note: no audio is included!

3. Launch of the GUIBO Network!

And finally, check out the first version of the GUIBO Network. Share demo releases to showcase your products and connect with tour operators and agencies to automate re-branded sharing of booking-specific releases.

🚀 GUIBO AI is Here! 🚀

September 25, 2024

We’re thrilled to introduce 𝗣𝗢𝗜 𝗘𝘅𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿 - our first AI service:

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝘁 𝗱𝗼? It simplifies your workflow by extracting Points of Interest (POIs) from any unstructured text:

𝟭. 🗺 𝗖𝗼𝗽𝘆 𝘁𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗮 𝗺𝗮𝗽 → Paste into POI Extractor → Import. 𝟮. 📒 𝗖𝗼𝗽𝘆 𝘁𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗮𝗻 𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗿𝘆 → Paste into POI Extractor → Import. 𝟯. 🏨 𝗖𝗼𝗽𝘆 𝘁𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗲.𝗴. 𝗮 𝗵𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗹 𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁 → Paste into POI Extractor → Import.

Reseller download permissions via Webportal

April 15, 2024

We are happy to announce, that you can now add resellers to specific bookings via our webportal. Until now, this was only possible via API.

With GUIBO's reselling capabilities, you can connect with other GUBO accounts and simply add them as a reseller for specific bookings. This will

  1. rebrand the travel docs (Weblink, App, Booklet) to the reseller's look and feel on the fly, and

  2. make this release visible in your reseller's account - always in the latest version for the specific booking

If you want to learn more, click here.

App updates for season 2024 - March 27, 2023

March 27, 2024

For the upcoming season, we have implemented numerous updates in our travel guide app for your travelers. In addition to many minor changes and bug fixes, we have simplified the user experience for all target groups in particular. And because pictures say more than words, take a look here:

Dedicated navigation buttons for more a more intuitive traveler experience for navigation.

  • Intuitive "Start" & "Stop" button for route navigation (when available for the route)

  • "Center" Button to always center the map at your location

More intuitive presentation the traveler's route progress.

  • Route progress for distance and elevation immediately at a glance

  • Updated look & feel for the "Data" view for routes

  • Real-time updates

Based on the feedback from our customers, we have recognized that some travelers expect to navigate using only sounds with a smartphone in their pocket. This cannot work well, for example, because the ambient noises are often too loud.

  • Added note for cyclists with the recommendation to use a smartphone holder

Incorrect smartphone settings are very often the cause of misbehavior. We have added a new page to make it easy to check the technical settings.

  • New "check technical settings" page helpful in case of misbehavior

  • Accessible via the "Technical help" menu

  • With our new check, the most important settings can be reviewed

    • Access to location services

    • Access to notification services

    • Correct volume, mute and notification settings

We have updated our notification implementation to better recognize when to switch on the screen.

  • Notifications for all turn-by-turn directions (~25 meters for hiking, ~75 meter for cycling)

  • Notification when route left (~100 meters away from route)

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