By JADE RUSSELL
Tribune Employees Reporter
A StreetSmart app will assist vacationers discover the place to go and what actions to do in The Bahamas, reworking the journey expertise for them, officers stated yesterday.
The app, which acts as a Bahamian journey information highlighting native eating places, historic websites, leisure journey excursions and cultural experiences, affords cellular information packages.
The launch ceremony for the app was held yesterday on the Nassau Cruise Port.
Ehren Hanna, COO of StreetSmart, and his brothers and brother-in-law started engaged on the journey app in 2019. Mr Hanna stated amid the rising variety of customer arrivals to the nation, it turned clear that the vacationer expertise wanted to be reworked. He stated they spoke to stakeholders who lamented the dearth of actions for visitors.
“It’s a gateway to distinctive experiences past the traditional vacationer path,” Mr Hanna stated.
“Our imaginative and prescient is to collaborate with the business leaders to make sure the continuous enchancment and sustainability of The Bahamas tourism choices benefiting each our visitors and local people who craft these experiences.”
Performing Prime Minister Chester Cooper celebrated the launch of the app.
“StreetSmart embodies our mission to offer guests with unprecedented entry to native insights, to cultural experiences, and the hidden gems that outline our paradise,” he stated. “This initiative not solely promotes collaborative partnerships with native distributors, but in addition fosters financial development, making certain the advantages of tourism are maximised for our native communities.”
When The Tribune spoke to vacationers on the Nassau Cruise Port, they agreed the app would enormously assist when returning to The Bahamas.
“We got here right here, we don’t know the place to go,” one vacationer from Brazil stated. “We needed to ask all people right here which seaside is the most effective or extra lovely so that will be good to know earlier than coming to The Bahamas.”