Services · Mobile app development · Tourism apps
Codeeo delivers tourism app development in Saudi Arabia for tour operators, experience platforms, destination companies and licensed guides. A single product may need to sell a desert camp near AlUla, a heritage walk in Diriyah, a mountain weekend in Asir and a ziyarat programme in Madinah, each with its own season, audience and rules. We build the visitor apps, guide tools and operator dashboards that handle that range, with Arabic first design, local payments and licensing records set up to match Ministry of Tourism requirements.
Hotel and travel agency apps sit on separate pages. This page covers the experiences: tours, attractions, guides and activities, and the systems that let one operator run them in several regions at once. Each region keeps its own settings while sharing one booking engine.
200+ companies servedFrom a first store to an ADX listed developer
What a national tourism app can include
Operators working across the Kingdom face problems a single city business never meets. Seasons run in opposite directions: the desert and the Red Sea coast are busiest in the cooler months, while the southern highlands draw Saudi families in summer. Audiences differ by destination, from international leisure visitors in AlUla to domestic weekenders in Taif and pilgrims extending their stay in the west. Licences, partners and payment needs vary too. The components below are the ones we use to make a national product manageable. Tour booking app development in Saudi Arabia at this scale is as much about the back office as about the visitor screens. We usually start with four or five of them and add the rest region by region as demand grows.
Experiences are organised by region, city and season, with availability that opens and closes automatically. A visitor in Riyadh sees what is running this weekend; a visitor planning a winter trip sees desert and coast experiences come into season. Rates and capacity can differ by season.
The catalogue always shows what is actually bookable.
The Ministry of Tourism licenses tour guides in separate categories, such as site guiding, route guiding and guiding in a specialised field. The dashboard stores each guide's category, regions and expiry, and only lets dispatchers assign guides to trips their licence covers. Renewal reminders go out before expiry.
No trip is staffed by a guide outside their licence.
Local operators in each region list their own experiences, manage slots and upload licences and insurance. You set commission, approval rules and quality checks, and pay suppliers on the schedule you agree. New suppliers go through a checklist before their first listing appears, and you can pause any listing instantly.
National coverage without running every trip yourself.
Residents and citizens can verify their identity through Nafath where a booking needs it, while overseas visitors sign in with email or phone. Personal data collected at booking is limited to what each trip requires. Guests can delete their account and data from the settings screen.
Verified residents, simple sign in for international guests.
mada, Apple Pay, STC Bank, SADAD for corporate and government bookings, and international cards for overseas visitors. Instalment options can be added for higher value packages if your payment provider supports them. Deposits and balance payments can be split for multi day packages. Refunds return to the original method.
Every guest finds a payment method they already use.
Invoices for every booking are generated in the format ZATCA requires under its Fatoora e-invoicing rules, and passed to your accounting or ERP system, including supplier commission statements for marketplace operators. Credit notes for cancellations follow the same rules, and every invoice links back to its booking for audit.
Finance closes the month without rebuilding invoices by hand.
Head office sees bookings, capacity, guide coverage and incidents across every region, while regional managers see only their own. Reports compare destinations and seasons so you can move staff and vehicles where demand is. Incidents and complaints appear on the same screen, with the region and trip that raised them.
One view of the business, with regional control kept local.
Desert drives, hikes, diving and other outdoor activities carry risk. Guests sign waivers and health declarations in the app, guides log incidents from the field with photos and location, and head office receives an alert straight away with the trip, guest and guide details attached.
Every incident recorded the same way in every region.
Descriptions, photos, audio stories and safety notes are stored once and published in Arabic, English and any further languages. Regional teams edit their own content, and head office approves before it goes live. Regional dialect and local place names are reviewed by staff in each region.
Consistent content across dozens of experiences.
For Muslim visitors who travel for Umrah, the app can offer tours in Jeddah, Taif or Madinah's wider region before or after their pilgrimage. It never handles permits, which remain in Nusuk. Packages show travel time from Makkah clearly and can include transfers from the guest's hotel.
Tourism sales from visitors who already travel for worship.
Who this is for
Vision 2030 has made tourism a national priority, and many businesses now operate in more than one region. They range from a single company running tours in three cities to platforms listing hundreds of local suppliers. What they share is the need for one system that respects local differences. We work with all four groups below, and we tell you plainly when a packaged booking engine would do the job better than a custom product, for example when your trips follow a standard pattern and you have no plans for a marketplace. For each group we also consider how your staff work today, which systems must stay, and where a phased rollout would lower risk.
You started in one city and are adding a second and third. The risk is three different ways of working. We design one product with shared booking, payments and reporting, and regional settings for language mix, seasons, partners and guide pools. New regions are switched on from the dashboard, with their own staff accounts and content. Reports then compare regions on bookings, cancellations and guide hours, so you can see whether a new region is earning its place. Regional managers sign in to see only their area.
Add a region without rebuilding the app.
Platforms listing activities from many suppliers need onboarding, licence verification, commission, payouts and dispute handling. We build supplier apps, an approval queue and payout reports, and we design search so visitors can filter by city, date, language, family suitability and accessibility. Marketplace trust depends on accurate listings, so quality rules are part of the first release. Suppliers see their own sales, reviews and payouts in their app, which cuts the support questions your team receives. Reviews are verified against real bookings.
Supplier tools and visitor app built together.
Organisations running a destination or a group of attractions need ticketing, timed entry, visitor guides, wayfinding and live capacity across several sites. We build visitor apps and staff tools that link those sites, plus reporting that shows how visitors move between them during a stay. Seasonal programmes and festivals can be set up in advance and published on a chosen date, with ticket limits per day and per site. Wayfinding between sites can include shuttle times and walking routes, with accessible options marked.
Several sites, one visitor app.
Groups of licensed guides want a shared booking channel without losing their independence. We build a network app where each guide manages their profile, languages, regions and calendar, while the network handles payments, reviews and marketing. Tourist guide app development in Saudi Arabia for networks like this also means tracking licence categories and renewals carefully. Visitors can search guides by language and speciality. Network rules, such as response times and cancellation terms, are set centrally and shown to visitors, and guides receive payouts on a regular schedule you define.
Shared channel, independent guides.
How we work together
A fixed scope first release suits operators launching in one or two regions. A monthly retainer keeps new regions, seasons and partners flowing in afterwards. Larger platforms usually take a dedicated team that works alongside their product managers. Our team of 80+ works from Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi, we have delivered 200+ projects across the UAE and the US, and our clients rate us 4.7 from 23 Google reviews. Meetings in person are possible in Riyadh; other cities are served by video call. In every model you own the code and store accounts from the start.
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
Native or cross platform apps for visitors, guides and suppliers, a web dashboard for head office and regions, and APIs to payment gateways, Nafath, accounting and partner ticketing. Hosting location and access rules are agreed with your IT and legal advisers to meet the PDPL and any NCA controls that apply.
01Mobile
02Data and cloud
03Marketing and tracking
Regions, seasons, licences, languages and local payments.
A national product has to handle destinations with opposite peak seasons, very different audiences and different partners. It must store guide licence details, take mada and other local payment methods, issue ZATCA compliant invoices and handle personal data in line with the PDPL. Planning those from the first sprint is far cheaper than adding them when you open a second region. It also helps to decide early whether suppliers will ever list on your platform, because that changes how accounts and payments are structured.
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