Services · Mobile app development · Tourism apps
Codeeo handles tourism app development in Jeddah for tour operators, licensed guides, attraction owners and experience sellers. We build the apps visitors use to book a heritage walk through Al Balad, a boat trip off the Corniche or an evening during Jeddah Season, and the tools your team uses to run those trips. Booking, guide schedules, live meeting points, audio stories and payments live in one product that fits how Jeddah actually receives its visitors: many arrive for a few days, often on the way to or from Makkah.
Hotels and travel agencies have their own pages with us. This one is about the experience itself: what a visitor does between check in and the flight home, and how your business fills those hours with trips that are easy to find, book and enjoy.
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What a Jeddah tourism app can include
Jeddah visitors rarely plan a week of sightseeing. A family finishing Umrah has a free afternoon, a business traveller has an evening, and residents of Riyadh fly in for a long weekend during an event. Your app has to sell the right trip for the time someone has left, then make the trip itself easy: where to meet, what to bring, what the guide will show. Below are the parts we usually build for Jeddah operators. Most first releases pick five or six of them, and the rest follow once real bookings show where visitors drop off. As tourism mobile app developers in Jeddah's market, we also plan for the city's rhythm: quiet summer afternoons, busy winter evenings and sudden demand around big events.
Visitors enter how many hours they have and where they are staying, and the app shows trips that fit: a two hour Al Balad walk, a sunset sail, a half day reef trip. Departure times account for traffic between the northern districts and the old town.
Short stay visitors book something instead of giving up on planning.
Self guided routes through the historic district with narrated stops at coral stone houses, souks and gates, written and recorded in Arabic and English. Maps and audio download before the walk, so the lanes of the old town do not depend on a mobile signal.
A tour you can sell every hour of the day without a guide on every route.
Each departure has a set number of seats, boats or guide places. Bookings, cancellations and walk in sales from your kiosk all draw from the same count, so you never sell the eleventh seat on a ten seat boat. Private bookings can block a whole departure, and seats freed by a cancellation return to sale straight away.
No double bookings between the app, your website and the desk.
Your operations team can pause a Red Sea departure when wind or visibility turns, and the app notifies every booked guest with a choice to move, switch to a land trip or take a refund through your agreed policy. The reason and the outcome are logged against the trip for your records.
Cancelled sailings handled in minutes, not by phoning every guest.
A pinned meeting spot with a photo and short directions, or a hotel pickup with a live van location on the day. Guides mark guests as collected so the driver knows when to leave. For Al Balad walks, the meeting point is a named gate or landmark that visitors can find without reading Arabic street signs.
Fewer late starts caused by guests waiting at the wrong gate.
A staff app shows each licensed guide, skipper or driver their trips, guest lists, languages needed and special requests such as wheelchair access or children's ages. Changes made in the dashboard reach them instantly. Guides can swap trips with each other, subject to a manager's approval, and every swap is recorded.
The right guide, speaking the right language, on every departure.
Schools, companies and community groups send a request with their date, headcount, ages and language. Your team replies with a quote inside the app, collects the participant list and assigns extra guides when a group is large, instead of chasing details across email and chat.
Large group bookings arrive complete and ready to schedule.
During Jeddah Season or a major sporting weekend, sell trips together with partner tickets or dinner bookings, with QR codes your partners scan at their own door. Bundles can be limited to set dates, so they disappear from the app when the event ends, and partners see their own sales in a simple report.
Higher spend per visitor during your busiest weeks.
mada, Apple Pay and STC Bank for residents, international cards for overseas visitors, deposits for private charters and ZATCA compliant e-invoices for corporate groups booking team outings. Refunds go back through the method used to pay, and the dashboard shows every payment, refund and outstanding deposit for each departure on the day.
Payment never becomes the reason a booking is abandoned.
After the trip the app asks for a short rating, shares the guide's photos and suggests a different experience for the next visit, timed for people who come back to Jeddah every year. Ratings stay private to your team until you choose to publish them, which lets you fix a problem with a guide before it shows publicly.
Repeat visitors return to you rather than to a booking portal.
Who this is for
Tourism in Jeddah covers very different operations. A walking tour company needs a light app built around guides and stories. A marine operator needs capacity, safety briefings and weather holds. An attraction needs ticketing that works at a gate under pressure. We match the product to the operation instead of forcing every client into one template, and we say early when a packaged booking tool would serve you better than a custom build. Tourist guide app development in Jeddah, for example, is often mostly a content and scheduling problem, while a marketplace is mostly a supplier and payout problem.
Operators running walks through Historic Jeddah, the UNESCO listed old town, need storytelling as much as booking. We build guided and self guided modes, a content editor for your historians to update stops as buildings reopen after restoration, and group tools for school and corporate visits. Arabic narration comes first, with English and other languages added for the visitors you actually see. Guides can also publish their own private tour dates, which the office approves before they go live. Schools and companies can also book an evening walk for their group.
Content updates without a new app release.
Boat trips, snorkelling and diving involve safety forms, certification details, gear sizes and weather. The app collects all of that at booking, sends the skipper a manifest, and keeps a record of who signed the briefing. If you also rent out boats by the hour, we can share the same back office with a separate rental flow. Certified divers can upload their card once and reuse it on later bookings, and beginners are steered to trips with an instructor on board.
Manifests ready before the boat leaves the marina.
Museums, family attractions and seasonal venues need timed entry, fast gate scanning and clear rules about who may enter at which hour. We build the visitor app, a scanning app for staff phones and a dashboard that shows live entries against capacity during peak evenings. Gate staff can also sell a ticket on the spot and see refunds or reissues without calling the office. For family attractions, parents can store children's ages once and get suggested entry times that suit them.
Gate queues shorter on the busiest nights.
If you list trips from many small Jeddah suppliers, you need supplier onboarding, licence checks, commission settings and payouts. We plan the marketplace so each supplier manages their own slots while you control quality, pricing rules and what appears on the home screen. Visitors see one checkout and one receipt, even when a day combines trips from three different suppliers. Supplier ratings and complaint counts help you decide who stays listed, and a supplier with an expired licence is hidden until it is renewed.
Suppliers self manage, you keep control of the listing.
How we work together
Smaller tour companies usually start with a fixed scope build covering booking, guides and payments, then keep a monthly retainer for seasonal changes and new trips. Larger attraction owners and marketplaces often take a dedicated team that stays with the product across several seasons. Our team of 80+ works from Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi; for Jeddah clients, discovery, design reviews and demos run by video call, and we have delivered 200+ projects across the UAE and the US. Every option includes handover documents, admin training for your staff and full access to the code from the first sprint.
A defined build with a deadline
We agree what the product has to do, write it down with a price and a date, and build exactly that. Changes are priced before they are made, not discovered on the invoice.
A product that keeps evolving
Named engineers who work your hours, join your standups and stay on the codebase. You direct the backlog; we own the quality of what ships.
Something live that needs looking after
A monthly block of hours for improvements, fixes and the small requests that otherwise wait months. Unused hours carry for a quarter.
Technology
Cross platform or native apps for iOS and Android, a web dashboard for your office and APIs to payment gateways, ticketing partners and accounting. We pick tools your own staff or future developers can maintain, and agree hosting and data location with you so visitor records follow the PDPL.
01Mobile
02Data and cloud
03Marketing and tracking
We set the plan after discovery, because scope drives the timing more than anything else.
A focused release with trip listings, slot booking, payments and a guide app moves quicker than one that adds a marketplace, audio walks in several languages and partner ticketing. Recording and editing heritage audio often takes longer than the code, so we start it early. Once scope is agreed, the dates go in writing, and we aim to launch before your high season rather than in the middle of it.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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