App Yap Contest

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Do you want to Yap about your App? Think you’ve got the best app in youth travel? Why don’t you show it off at WYSTC for everyone in the industry to see and let the community be the judge?

 

 

 

WYSTC are searching for the best app in the youth travel industry, and the App Yap Contest is your chance to show how yours helps young travellers in their journeys, from inspiration to planning to saving memories.

During the official ‘App Yap’ competition at WYSTC, the Top 10 Finalists will present their  apps for five minutes to fellow delegates and organisations.

The contest is will officially open on the 15th April 2012. The deadline for votes is midnight 19 September 2012.

Email WYSTC Events Manager Laura Garratt today for more information for the Annual WYSTC App Yap Competition.  More details of the competition will become available soon.

In the meantime, lets flashback and view all the apps in the 2011 line-up!

Youth Travel at the Forefront of Technology

With over 17,000 travel apps on the market today, finding the best one is the kind of challenge we like. That’s why WYSTC begins this year’s search for the best app in the youth travel industry during the second annual global App Yap Contest.

Click here to check out all of the entries from 2011. Check back here for new entries so that you can yap about an app to all of your colleagues, customers and business partners.

In order to find the best app in the youth travel industry, the apps were judged on elements such as:

  • the app’s relevance and fit with the youth travel market
  • content, features and functionality (how much the app helps young travellers in each step of their journeys, from the beginning till the end)
  • accessibility (platforms, offline capabilities, affordability, languages)
  • design
  • ease of use
  • potential for growth / partnerships / entrepreneurialism
  • popularity / number of downloads / votes to date

Remember the  BIG YAP?

The Top 10 Finalists of the contest met at WYSTC and presented their travel apps for five minutes. The attendees heard about the latest technology behind some of today’s hottest travel apps getting inspiration and ideas to create their own apps and discover new partnership opportunities.

The Top Ten Finalists’ presentations from WYSTC 2011, were:

How to Participate in 2012:

  • Contact us if you want to participate in the 2012 App Yap Contest.
  • You can view competing apps in the lineup soon.
  • Start yappin’! When the contest page launches, share it with customers, colleagues and business partners on Twitter, Facebook, your website, newsletters – any social media and marketing channels you use.

View the contest terms and conditions.

The First App Yap Winner

The first annual App Yap Contest launched at WYSTC 2011 in Barcelona. Last year’s App Yap winner to find the best app in the youth travel industry among 40 contest entries from all over the world.

After listening to the Top 10 Finalists yap about their apps in Barcelona and 5000 votes cast, WYSTC and its 2011 marketing partner Internet Advantage were proud to announce tripwolf as the winner! With a full range of features to a sleek design to global co-branding solutions, tripwolf stood out amongst the rest and is a true representative of how technology can inspire and enhance young travellers’ experiences.

From a full range of features to a sleek design to global co-branding solutions, tripwolf stood out among the rest and is a true representative of how technology can inspire and enhance young travelers’ experiences. Learn more about the tripwolf app here.

Tripwolf received a prize worth over 5000 EUR including…

  • Two free registrations to WYSTC 2012 in San Diego, California (worth 3200 EUR)
  • Internet Advantage will offer their services for a value of 2000 EUR:
    - press release distribution campaign announcing the winner to the media
    - promotion of the winner via Internet Advantage and WYSTC social media channels
    - promotion of the winner via ~25 leading online travel companies
  • The winner will present the app in a live webinar for the WYSE Travel Confederation community
  • Plenty of free publicity!

Tripwolf’s PR & Social Media Specialist Lea Hajner enthused, “Winning this award means a lot to us at tripwolf. We’ve been working very hard to constantly improve our app, add new features and we’re now at a stage where we’re able to offer white labelling and co-branding solutions to our partners – so winning this award at the leading World Youth and Student Travel Conference really comes at a great time for us. Thank you to the jury and to everyone who voted for us. We’re absolutely thrilled!”

Are you inspired to design or present this year’s cutting edge app? The WYSTC 2012 App Yap competition will open soon! Check back for details.

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