SNAPP ASIA mobile app to support tourism sector in Sri Lanka

SNAPP ASIA Founder and Director Geert Goethals first came to Asia in 2012, on a three-month long travel through seven Asian countries. The trip covered Singapore, Thailand, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Cambodia and Vietnam.

To be able to scale to more destinations and different countries, SNAPP ASIA decided to move forward to a ‘Digital Only Discounts and Deals Application’ with supporting website.

Today they are ready to expand to foreign countries, including Sri Lanka, Maldives and Thailand to be the first territories to be rolled out in collaboration with Lanka Travel Bureau Ltd. Co. established in Sri Lanka.

In the last few years more and more people are joining the digital era and most people in emerging economies now prefer accessing information with smartphones over more classic info channels like TV, newspapers, magazines, radio, etc. Social media like Facebook and Instagram are nowadays the main channels for information and entertainment.

Young people and travellers love to enjoy new experiences like world cuisines, beach holidays, fancy nightlife venues, relaxing spas and classy shopping and SNAPP ASIA wants to help consumers have access to these delights; hence their slogan ‘Making Fun Affordable’.

The SNAPP ASIA application was released in Cambodia as a pilot country, and at present they have approximately 250 merchants offering attractive deals and promotions. They are now focusing on adding merchants in Sri Lanka, Thailand and soon in the Maldives. Secondly they will focus on getting users to download the application to their phones and the goal is to commercially operate within about two months.

SNAPP ASIA is focusing on travellers and locals, for travellers we will add useful tips regarding the different locations and will also provide essential do’s and don’ts to help make their travels in Asia as smooth as possible. Consumers can easily get access to SNAPP ASIA Discount App and view all their discounts/deals/ offers and promotions by categories very easily. All what you need is to install app with Google play or App store free.

The app is structured to easily find your favourite merchants and deals around you. The closest deal will always come up on top of the list, and on the merchant pages, users can find a description on the venue or service, and can also find contact and online information, and can find directions through the connected Google maps app.

To enjoy the discounts users just need to show the merchant page on checkout, they want to make the system as easy to use for users and staff as possible. For room reservations they will redirect our users directly to the booking page from the hotel, where they can use a coupon code to redeem the deal.

In the future they will also implement a very affordable premium members section, to offer really unique deals and to give opportunity to merchants to reward special customers. They also implement flash deals, weekly offers, and discount notifications to users who are around the merchant’s location.

Lanka Travel Bureau Ltd. Managing Director says: “The SNAPP ASIA – discount mobile app is to reach more consumers and let them know that they can find all the promotions, deals, offers in one place. SNAPP ASIA will not only be of help to tourists, or fun loving  locals but also for businesses looking for new openings in their respective business sectors to grab opportunities in the market.”

SNAPP ASIA Discount mobile App is the first mobile app and best for the people who are coming from overseas, which helps them to find the deals, discounts, promotions, and offers in Sri Lanka. This mobile app is user friendly and very popular among the people who love bargains/deals in leisure holiday and shopping.

In Sri Lanka our most important goal is to bring business to merchants that they would probably never have for various reasons, per example unfavourable marketing approaches, weak social media presence, etc. For businessmen, SNAPP ASIA will help in saving on marketing costs, newspaper and souvenir advertisements and all other promotional expenses and bridge the vital communication gap with prospective customers. 

Another significant feature of the SNAPP ASIA – mobile app to mention especially is that no commission percentage will be charged from merchants, like other booking/reservation platforms operate in the market.

The businesses who join hand with SNAPP ASIA will have app listing display, and package will include to offer SNAPP ASIA website adverts, SNAPP ASIA  Mag – (digital magazine), and on social media platforms on one contract on very attractive package price, non can match in the market.

They invite merchants/business sectors like hotels, guests, accommodation, serviced apartments, villas, holiday home operators, banquet and wedding/reception halls, inbound and outbound travel and tour operators, rent a car services, activity centres, sports centres, restaurants, cafes, wellness, health and spas, beauty salons, night clubs, pubs, and entertainment parlous, shopping centres, shops like tea, gem and jewellery, art and craft, spice gardens can list their businesses with SNAPP ASIA discount mobile app and get avail the opportunities in the market.