The Island of St. Barthelemy launches its unprecedented mobile application for an ever more successful tourist experience

After many months of work, the Tourism Committee of Saint-Barthélemy, along with Data Moove, announce the implementation of a new mobile application completely complete to travelers and residents of the island. This mobile application, a real concentrate of innovations, makes it possible to centralize and pass on all the latest tourist information on the island.

Saint-Barthélemy at the forefront of innovation for an ever better tourist experience

The Tourism Committee of Saint-Barthélemy has joined the services of Data Moove which has developed for the Committee the digital platform City Moove for its new mobile application dedicated to tourism and the promotion of its territory. Thanks to the mobile application City Moove (available on iOS and Android), Saint-Barthélemy offers tourists and inhabitants of the island the opportunity to discover the island in its many facets by allowing them to be informed in real time of all the highlights, events, and discoveries possible, as soon as they arrive at the Gustavia airport, where the first interactive terminal will be installed, which will broadcast this information.

“This new application is a concentrate of innovation that brings together all the information a traveler expects from a mobile application. Our guests can discover all the riches of our island, through a presentation of places, hotels, restaurants and events that shape St. Barthelemy. It will also enable us to better communicate on all our tourist news “explains Nils Dufau, President of the Tourism Committee of Saint-Barthélemy.

The island of Saint Barthélemy is the second destination to acquire this unique tool, after the Regional Committee of Tourism “Côte d’Azur France”.

In concrete terms, how does that work ?

Data Moove has been developing City Moove for more than 4 years as part of a European project supported by EIT Digital, in partnership with EURECOM (engineering school and research center in the field of digital sciences at Sophia Antipolis):

“Our challenge has been to move from a research and development project to a real product that brings a new experience to the end user by making it easier to access a multitude of information on a single channel, while previously he had to search on multiple digital media. And to tourism professionals wanting to collect and disseminate information without recapturing it. “Reports Frédéric Bossard, General Manager of Data Moove.

The City Moove platform uses several sources of content such as Facebook, Google Places, Open Agenda, Foursquare, Yelp, to collect the data available on Saint-Barthélemy and to supplement them with the information flows of the tourist office. classify, deduplicate and focus on the application.

The application is available on iOS and Android and at Gustavia airport from January 2018. This is a major innovation in the tourist experience offered by the Tourism Committee of Saint Barthelemy which proves once again its dynamism, its avant-gardism and its desire to make its guests live more unforgettable experiences.

Download the official tourist application of Saint Bartholomew Island on the stores:

iOS Version: Download on the AppStore 

Androïd Version: Download on the Play Store