Services · Mobile app development · Tourism apps
Codeeo plans and builds tourism apps for stadium and sports experience operators, music and heritage tour companies, attractions and day trip firms in Manchester. Visitors book a tour around a fixture list or a gig, ride the Metrolink to the start point, follow a route through the Northern Quarter or Castlefield with audio in their language, and pick up a Peak District or Lake District trip the next morning. Your staff work from a guide app, and your office runs bookings, capacity and refunds from one admin system.
A large share of Manchester's visitors come for a specific reason: a match, a concert, a conference or a graduation. An app that plans around those dates sells the extra day, the second tour and the trip out of the city that a generic listing misses.
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Features we build
Manchester's tourism calendar is event driven. Home fixtures at Old Trafford and the Etihad Stadium, big concerts, conferences at Manchester Central and the university calendar all move demand sharply from week to week. Visitors often arrive through Manchester Airport or Piccadilly station with one fixed commitment and some spare hours around it. Many are from overseas, especially football fans, and many are from elsewhere in the UK on a short break. The capabilities below are built for that pattern: selling around events, getting visitors from the tram to the tour, and turning one reason to visit into two or three bookings. In discovery we choose only the pieces your business needs, so a music walking tour company and a coach operator running Lake District trips end up with very different apps that share the same sound foundations.
Your departures sit alongside the fixture list, major concerts and conference dates you choose to track. The admin system flags busy days, suggests extra departures and stops selling tours that would clash with kick-off times or road closures around the stadiums. Event lists are kept by your team, not scraped.
You add capacity on the days visitors are actually in town.
Directions to each start point show the nearest tram stop, bus route and walking time, with a photo of the meeting spot. Visitors coming from Piccadilly, Victoria or the airport get a clear route to Salford Quays, Castlefield or the city centre without leaving the app.
Fewer late starts caused by visitors lost between stops.
Guided and self-guided routes through the Northern Quarter, Ancoats, Castlefield and the canal network, with narration, archive images and stop descriptions. Rights for music clips and archive photos are tracked in the content system, so you know what you can publish and where. Routes work offline once downloaded.
A product that sells on non-event days too.
Combine a stadium or museum experience with a city tour, a pub history walk or a next-day trip, priced as one booking. The app holds each component's time and entry code, and shows the order of the day on one screen. Partner suppliers see only their own part.
Higher spend per visitor on the busiest weekends.
For Peak District, Lake District, Chester or Liverpool day trips, the app manages pickup points around the city centre, passenger lists per coach, driver contact and late running alerts sent to everyone booked on that vehicle. Lunch choices and add-ons are collected at booking. Drivers confirm boarding on the guide app.
Coaches leave Manchester on time with a full manifest.
Guides see departures, headcounts, special requests and access needs, scan tickets without signal, and mark no-shows. The office can reassign a tour if a guide is stuck on a delayed train, and every guest is told about the change. Access notes travel with each guest.
Tours run on time even when a shift changes at short notice.
If you sell tours with a hotel stay, checkout lists the room separately, including the City Visitor Charge that hotels in the Manchester Accommodation BID area add to bookings. Visitors see the full amount before they pay, which UK consumer law on price transparency expects.
No surprise charges at hotel check-in.
Booking screens, tour content and push alerts in the languages your visitors use, with language chosen once and remembered. Fans travelling from abroad for a fixture can book, pay and receive updates without translating every message. Alerts respect each visitor's notification settings. Staff replies can be translated for the office.
Overseas visitors complete bookings they would otherwise abandon.
After a tour the app asks for a review, offers a related experience for the next visit, and remembers preferences for returning visitors. Students' families who come back for graduation, and fans who return each season, get offers that match their reason for coming. Every offer can be switched off by the visitor.
Repeat visitors book direct instead of through a reseller.
The office sees bookings by product, channel and event, guide hours, coach loads, refunds and review scores in one place. Reports export for your accountant, and you can compare a derby weekend with a quiet midweek to plan staffing for the next season. Views can be limited by role.
Decisions on staffing and departures rest on your own booking data.
Who this is for
Tourism in Manchester mixes sport, music, industrial heritage, food and business travel, with Salford Quays and MediaCityUK drawing their own visitors across the river. The operators that benefit most from an app sell more than one product, depend on event dates, or need to coordinate guides and drivers across the city. Our tour booking app development in Manchester starts by finding where bookings are lost and where staff spend time on calls and spreadsheets, and the first release goes after those problems.
Football brings visitors who plan around fixtures and often travel from overseas. They want a stadium or museum visit, a tour of the city's football history and something to do on the day after the match. An app that packages those, shows the timings around kick-off and handles multilingual support lets you sell the whole trip rather than a single slot. Crowd timing matters too: the app can steer pre-match tours away from the hours when stadium approaches are closed or packed, and suggest post-match options that start once streets have cleared.
Fixture changes are the main thing to design for.
Walking tours of the city's music history, the canals, the mills of Ancoats or the food halls tend to be run by small teams with freelance guides. An app gives you direct booking, meeting points tied to tram stops, audio for self-guided versions, and a review request after every tour. It also gives you a list of past guests you can invite back for new routes. Seasonal routes for Christmas markets or Pride weekend can be switched on and off without a new release.
Start small, then add self-guided products.
Museums, galleries and visitor attractions in the city centre and at Salford Quays need timed entry for exhibitions, a visit guide, accessibility details and family content. We connect the app to your existing ticketing where it has an API, and give your learning team a content editor so trails and audio can change with each exhibition. School groups and families get their own trails and booking flows. Exhibition changes, late openings and closures can be pushed to visitors who have saved the venue, so nobody travels in from outside the city to find a gallery shut.
Content editing for your own staff is part of the build.
Manchester is a base for trips into the Peak District, the Lake District and to nearby cities. Operators running those need pickups, manifests, weather alerts, lunch choices and simple add-ons such as boat trips or entry tickets. Short break operators also need hotel and tour combinations priced clearly, with the city's accommodation charges shown before payment. Weather on the fells can change plans quickly, and the app lets you tell every passenger about a route change before they leave their hotel. Return times to the city are shown clearly for visitors catching an evening train or flight.
One manifest per vehicle, updated live.
How we work together
Codeeo has delivered 200+ projects across the UAE and the US, with a team of 80+ across Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi, and a 4.7 rating from 23 Google reviews. We work remotely with clients in Manchester, and discovery and reviews run by video call. Most operators begin with a fixed scope first release, then keep a retainer for new routes, packages and season updates. Larger venues or groups with several products sometimes take a dedicated team. Cost is shaped by the number of apps and roles, languages and audio content, package logic, ticketing and reseller integrations, and how much route content we help produce. We explain each of these during discovery so the scope reflects what you will actually use.
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 builds for iOS and Android, offline maps and ticket scanning, and a headless content system for routes and audio. As tourism mobile app developers working with Manchester operators, we size hosting for match days and big concert nights, not just an ordinary Tuesday.
01Mobile
02Data and cloud
03Marketing and tracking
With the product that sells most and the problem that costs most.
For most operators that means direct booking for the main tour and a guide app for check-in, with event-aware scheduling if your demand follows fixtures or concerts. Self-guided audio, packages and multilingual content often come in the second release. We write the first release down in discovery, with dates set against your busiest periods, so you know what launches and when. Content readiness, such as scripts, recordings and photo rights, often decides timing more than the code does.
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