Press Releases

BOCA RATON, FLA—Local Explorers, creators of popular mobile loyalty apps and websites for the tourism and hospitality industry, is making its already powerful solutions even better with a series of upgrades to incentive user engagement and visits to attractions featured on its apps and websites. In addition, back-end upgrades make it easier for destination-marketing organizations (DMOs) to import their databases of local attractions directly into their websites and apps, eliminating the need for time-consuming [...]

BOCA RATON, FLA—Local Explorers, a leading creator of customized mobile loyalty apps for the tourism and hospitality industries, has expanded its impact once again with its New Hampshire Wine Trail app, created for the New Hampshire Winery Association (NHWA). A digital upgrade to the association’s popular paper-based Wine Passport, the app allows users to find participating wineries near them, learn about individual wineries and their offerings, and map out their own tours of wineries [...]

BOCA RATON, FLA—Local Explorers, a leading creator of custom mobile apps for the tourism and hospitality industry, has expanded its footprint once again through its partnership with Craft Beverages of the Catskills Trail (CBCT). Through this partnership, Local Explorers will build a mobile passport app for CBCT’s new Drink the Catskills craft beverage trail, which will feature over 30 of the region’s artisanal breweries, cideries, distilleries, and wineries. The app will not only help [...]

Local Explorers, a leading creator of mobile loyalty apps for the hospitality and tourism industry, has expanded its reach once again through its partnership with the Missouri Craft Spirits Guild to build the guild’s Missouri Spirits Expedition app. The app, a digital upgrade to the paper maps originally used for the guild’s popular Missouri Spirits Expedition trail, lets users find and learn about the guild’s 41 distilleries, map their own personal tours of distilleries of their [...]

Local Explorers, the leading maker of mobile loyalty apps for the tourism and hospitality industry, has teamed with GO Laurel Highlands to launch a mobile passport app as part of the kickoff of GO Laurel Highlands’ latest iteration of its popular Pour Tour, a self-guided tour of 62 of the region’s craft breweries, wineries, cideries, meaderies, and distilleries. Participants in the Pour Tour can earn points towards prizes by taking pictures of their purchases at participating [...]

Local Explorers, a leading developer of mobile loyalty apps for the tourism and hospitality industry, has partnered once again with the Rhode Island Brewers Guild, this time for a refresh of its popular Rhode Island Brewery Passport App. The updated app offers additional features to encourage exploration, such as double points for brewery visits during the guild’s annual Rhode Island Craft Beer Week, as well as new incentives to reward regular visitors to the state’s [...]

OCALA, FLA—Marion County, Florida, long known for its outdoors recreation opportunities as well as for being a global center for thoroughbred breeding and racing, has seen its proactive efforts to increase tourism pay off, bringing in a record $5.3 million in tourism tax revenue in the 2022-2023 fiscal year.  The Ocala/Marion County Visitors and Convention Bureau credits this growth to its recent initiatives, including the launch of the free OcalaMarion Travel Guide App, built [...]

Florida Craft Spirits Association Taps Daruma Tech to Build Mobile Passport App to Boost Tourism, Brand Recognition BOCA RATON, FLORIDA--Further solidifying its reputation as a leader in mobile passport apps for the tourism and hospitality industries, Boca Raton, Florida-based software developer Daruma Tech is partnering with the Florida Craft Spirits Association to create a passport app spotlighting the association’s member distilleries. A digital reimagination of the association’s paper spirits trail map, the app allows [...]

Local Explorer's exceptional track record as a developer of high-impact, highly customized mobile loyalty apps stood out to Marion County decisionmakers. “The opportunity to create something genuine and authentic for the county has been important, and the process has been going great,” said Loretta Shaffer, director of tourism development for Marion County. BOCA RATON, FLORIDA—Software developer Daruma Tech, creator of award-winning mobile loyalty apps for the hospitality and tourism industries, is creating its most ambitious [...]

Following a string of new contracts for mobile loyalty apps for the craft beverage industry, Boca Raton, Florida-based software designer Daruma Tech has signed on to build an app for the Brewers Guild of Alaska. With the app, Alaska’s craft beer aficionados will be able to find breweries near them, see what’s on tap, and even plan and map their own personalized tours of selected breweries. In addition, they will be able to earn points towards [...]