Travel Apps: Potential to take flight

There I stood, lost in translation in the middle of Moscow. All the signs were in Russian and none of the locals out and about on the streets spoke English. It was time to call out the big guns. I whipped out my smartphone. My trusty holiday apps were ready and waiting: Google Maps, Foursquare, Google Translate, World Travel Map by Triposo and TripAdvisor. We all have our “go to” apps for travel and tourism. They help us make the most of the city we live in — like Kif el Seir, a must-have to survive Lebanon’s traffic plagued roads complete with burning tires and potholes, and WhereLeb for those late-night kanafe cravings — as well as places we are discovering for the first time. But what about the Lebanese travel app scene? In an informal online survey of mainly 30-39 year old professionals with university degrees and full-time jobs,