reSpoti guide is a website dedicated to travel which has been available for four months. It discovers Poland and its attractions for us using the Internet and latest technologies, in order to ensure constant access to information. The website allows searching for sites that are worth visiting or seeing in every location in Poland. The choice is facilitated by photographs, descriptions and opinions of other tourists. The users will also find trivia, history and offers for tourists. Thanks to reSpoti everyone will feel a bit of a discoverer.
The project was created by people from Toruń who have every-day experience in art, gastronomy, IT, hotel industry and marketing, while tourism is their passion. The idea of a virtual guide appeared two years ago, during holidays in Spain. Planning for the trip started several days before the holidays: going through hundreds of websites, noting the most interesting places, printing maps. The day of departure came and the holidays begun. On the first day of sightseeing it turned out that not all the information was found, in one case we did not check the opening hours in other we forgot the ticket prices. Not to mention the problems that we had while travelling from one place to another, searching for streets and addresses on the mini-maps. Then we thought of a virtual tourist guide! A guide that will fit in a phone or a tablet, thanks to which it is always at hand. It would designate your location, search for the closest tourist attractions and thanks to navigation guide you straight to your goal. A guide with indispensable information: prices, opening hours, descriptions, photographs.
Holidays came to an end and we started to work on making the dream of easy travel come true. The reSpoti team speaks as one that the they were convinced by this project from the very beginning as this initiative supports Polish tourism. First talks with art and IT designers took place in May 2014. Works on the website’s design took a lot of time and it is difficult to say how many times was it modified so that the portal is easy to operate and fulfils all the expectations of future users. The name was also created then. You might wonder why reSpoti? „re” is a Latin prefix that suggests doing something once more, “spot” is of course in English. The creators wanted to communicate the idea of visiting the places we know once more, to re-discover them, to meet Poland anew. In the meantime the tourist spots catalogue was created.
Works on the project lasted for a year and a half, until finally on November 14, 2015 reSpoti virtual tourist guide website was launched for the first time. reSpoti mobile application (for Android and iOS) will be available soon.
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