Context and needs
To address growing demand for hotel location services while considering value for money, Phoenix GDA designed and developed Lory, an Android mobile application. The solution enabled users to find hotels and various service points across several African countries. Launched in 2015, the application is currently unavailable.
Objectives
- Facilitate the location of hotels and service points
- Enable comparison of offers by cost and quality
- Provide a mobile tool adapted to several African countries
- Improve access to useful nearby information
Our intervention
- Analysis of mobile-user needs
- Design of search and geolocation features
- Development of the application for Android devices
- Testing, optimization and application launch
Results achieved
- Mobile geolocation application developed and deployed
- Simplified search for hotels and services
- Solution usable across several African countries
- User choices better informed by location, cost and quality