+ What is your name?

Barbora

+ Are you submitting as a team or as an individual?

Team submission

+ Where are you located?

Czech Republic

+ In one sentence, tell us about your idea.

SmartGuide is a fast, easy, and affordable option for tourist destinations and attractions of all kinds to digitize their visitor guides -- without the pain of building and maintaining custom apps.

We believe that locals are the best guides. But for many tourists, it’s difficult to get a local guide because of budgets, language skills or availability.

+ Describe your ideal collaborative partner or partners.

Destinations and attractions interested in creating and/or selling their guides to visitors on our platform.

+ What is the most immediate or most pressing challenge you're facing right now?

Creating guide is perceived as a lengthy and expensive process which is not the case for our platform.

+ What is it about your idea that makes you feel good?

We created SmartGuide a digital guide platform that has revolutionized how people experience new places during their travels. And we opened it for everyone who has a great story to tell.

+ What makes your idea innovative? Why has no one ever done it before?

Providing engaging digital guide in every smartphone and giving travellers the opportunity to explore thousands of places across the globe via one app, one global platform. Building whole plaform is a complex project which requires a lot of resources and technologies.

+ Who will benefit the most from your idea?

local tourism authorities, professional guides and travellers theselves

+ Ideally, when would you launch this idea?

I've already launched my idea

+ Indicate which UN goals your idea relates to?

N/A

+ At Sigmund, we are interested in ideas at the intersection of People, Planet, and Profit. How does your idea relate to these three categories?

Giving everyone the opportunity to become a guide and even make a profit (passive income) from showing destinations to tourists. Leading travellers to less visited places and thanks to that re-distributing the turist overload in specific places. And keeping everyone safe thanks to possibility of individual travel.

+ Your website URL

https://www.smart-guide.org/