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

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StaRTpunkt

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
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StaRTpunkt

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.
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Business portal
Businesses manage their own master data, opening hours including public holidays, events and promotions, on mobile too.
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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.
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AI for everyone
Translations and copy in the city brand's style, for the team and for local businesses.
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AI moderation
Text and images are checked before anything goes online.
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Widgets for the website
Search, lists, sliders and detail pages on visitreutlingen.de, live from StaRTpunkt.
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Partner interface
Data for other platforms, each partner with its own API key.
Technology
- PHP 8.5
- MariaDB
- JavaScript
- Widgets
- AI