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StaRTpunkt

The central data system for a city's tourism: local businesses, POIs, tours and events in one place, described in fine detail, multilingual and with AI.

Client
StaRT Stadtmarketing und Tourismus Reutlingen GmbH
Status
Live
Online
Internal system, not public
StaRTpunkt
Homepage of StaRTpunkt

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  • StaRTpunkt
    All businesses at a glance, with the live status of their opening hours

    All businesses at a glance, with the live status of their opening hours

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  • StaRTpunkt
    Tours with a GPX route: the system finds the sights along the way by itself

    Tours with a GPX route: the system finds the sights along the way by itself

  • StaRTpunkt
    POIs: every sight with texts, images, groups and contact details, managed in one place

    POIs: every sight with texts, images, groups and contact details, managed in one place

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The challenge

StaRT Stadtmarketing und Tourismus Reutlingen GmbH is the City of Reutlingen's subsidiary for city marketing and tourism. It wanted to manage all of the city's local businesses, POIs, tours and events in one central place, as simply as possible and with a back end that fits the team's work perfectly. Restaurants, shops, cultural venues and clubs were to be able to manage their own data, and everything was to be up to date everywhere, above all on visitreutlingen.de.

Our solution

We migrated the existing data cleanly and enriched it in finer detail than ever before. With us, a business can be several things at once: a restaurant might also be a bar, and each role has its own attributes. The bar has Wi-Fi, the restaurant doesn't, and that's exactly how it's recorded. Over 150 attributes in 28 groups describe every local business, almost one in three belongs to several categories, and all of this makes for very precise searches on visitreutlingen.de. In the business portal, the businesses manage their own details, opening hours, events and promotions, with the same AI tools as the team: the AI translates into four languages and writes copy that fits the city brand. Via widgets and a custom plugin system, the data goes live on visitreutlingen.de. On request, a POI becomes its own landing page on inreutlingen.de, with a QR code on site. And via our interface, the data goes to partner platforms such as rausgegangen and mein.toubiz, each partner with its own API key.

Live · Internal system, not public

What's inside

In detail.

  • Business portal

    Businesses manage their own master data, opening hours including public holidays, events and promotions, on mobile too.

  • Recorded in fine detail

    A business can be a restaurant and a bar at the same time, each role with its own attributes: over 150 in 28 groups.

  • AI for everyone

    Translations and copy in the city brand's style, for the team and for local businesses.

  • AI moderation

    Text and images are checked before anything goes online.

  • Widgets for the website

    Search, lists, sliders and detail pages on visitreutlingen.de, live from StaRTpunkt.

  • Partner interface

    Data for other platforms, each partner with its own API key.

Technology

  • PHP 8.5
  • MariaDB
  • JavaScript
  • Widgets
  • AI

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