And we’re app-y too!

 

The ‘Show Me Wales’ iphone/ipad app, which provides a comprehensive guide to things to do, activities and places to visit across the country, has been backed by tourist businesses and supported at its launch by MP Glyn Davies.

 

The first ever pan-Wales app of its type, together with a mobile website, were launched during Wales Tourism Week, and developed, with specialist technical support, by Mid Wales Tourism in partnership with North Wales Tourism.

 

MWT, which is celebrating its 21st birthday this year, is a not for profit organisation representing more than 550 tourism and hospitality businesses across Mid and South Wales.

 

Free to download at the Apple iphone store, the app has sections on Mid Wales Naturally Different, sponsored by Tourism Partnership Mid Wales, South West Wales Beaches (South West Wales Tourism Partnership), North Wales Great Days Out (North Wales Tourism), Castles and Historic Sites (Cadw), Cultural South East Wales (South East Wales Tourism Partnership) and Ceredigion Walking and Cycling (Ceredigion Council).

 

Sections on Places to Stay and Places to Eat and Drink are being sponsored by MWT and there’s also a section on Things to do on a Rainy Day. Information about attractions, activities, events and places to eat and drink is available to users, who will also be able to book accommodation directly from their smart phone.

 

Promoting all the main visitor attractions and activities in Wales, ‘Show Me Wales’ utilises the iPhone’s in-built GPS signal, enabling visitors and local people to source information in their immediate vicinity as they travel around the country.

 

The mobile website -www.m.showmewales.co.uk – has been launched to complement the app and includes information about events and festivals across Wales.

 

Mr Davies congratulated Mid Wales Tourism and its partners and said the app and mobile website would be valuable resources for people visiting Wales.

 

Val Hawkins, Mid Wales Tourism’s chief executive, said the app would evolve as more information was added to it.

 

“This is the start of the journey rather than the end,” she stressed, revealing that MWT hoped to develop an android phone version if funding could be found.