Growth, Innovation, Impact: The Features That Defined 2025
2025 wasn’t just about adding features. It was about reshaping how travelers discover, plan, and experience destinations, and giving our partners more control, intelligence, and flexibility than ever before. From AI-powered traveler support to a fully redesigned platform, last year marked one of the biggest leaps forward in Visit Widget’s evolution. Here’s a look at what you helped make possible.
Growth, Innovation, Impact: The Features That Defined 2025
2025 wasn’t just about adding features. It was about reshaping how travelers discover, plan, and experience destinations, and giving our partners more control, intelligence, and flexibility than ever before. From AI-powered traveler support to a fully redesigned platform, last year marked one of the biggest leaps forward in Visit Widget’s evolution. Here’s a look at what you helped make possible.
33 Million Minutes of Discovery: The Year Travelers Didn’t Just Dream, They Went
2025 wasn’t just another year for Visit Widget, it was a year of movement. Not scrolling. Not saving for later. Not “someday.” Real measurable movement. Together with our partner destinations, we helped travelers turn curiosity into action and inspiration into real-world exploration.
Introducing Point-Based Rewards: Turning Destination Visits into Prizes
At Visit Widget, we’re always looking for innovative ways to help destinations engage visitors, encourage exploration, and capture meaningful data. That’s why we’re excited to roll out our latest goal type: Point-Based Rewards.
3 Great Ideas to Drive Downloads
Create personalized itineraries for specific users Our Group Plans feature enables destinations to create personalized itineraries with detailed, user-specific notes. Whether you're hosting a social influencer or catering to a special interest group, Group Plans lets you craft curated experiences with exclusive notes at each stop—visible only to the intended user.
Easy, Engaging Voting for Local Favorites
Whether you’re hosting a “Best Of” contest or a local favorite showdown, this feature makes it easy for app users to vote, share, and celebrate what makes your area unique.
Innovative Strategies for Engaging Visitors Through Your App
We love seeing our clients discover creative and strategic ways to boost app downloads and engagement. Innovative thinking paves the way for unforgettable in-app experiences—designed by the destination and seamlessly delivered to their visitors.
Virtual Tours
Explore Before You Go: Virtual Tours Now Available in Visit Widget
Command Console
Modernized UX/UI updates across the apps and admin mode of the widget!
New User Interface Updates!
Modernized UX/UI updates across the apps and admin mode of the widget!
33 Million Minutes of Discovery: The Year Travelers Didn’t Just Dream, They Went
2025 wasn’t just another year for Visit Widget, it was a year of movement. Not scrolling. Not saving for later. Not “someday.” Real measurable movement. Together with our partner destinations, we helped travelers turn curiosity into action and inspiration into real-world exploration.
Command Console
Modernized UX/UI updates across the apps and admin mode of the widget!
Attribution Analytics
Adding attribution analytics to the dashboard allows clients to report more information back to local businesses [...]
Export Analytics to CSV from Dashboard
Admin users are now able to export different analytics directly to a csv within the Analytics [...]
Trail Data & Map Layer Support
Our custom KML Integration allows us to show these geographic data files overlaid on the map [...]
Popular Item Analytics
Now available by popular demand , we’ve added the ability to track Popular Items in the Analytics [...]
Analytics Dashboard
The Analytics Dashboard is a web-based interface, accessible in admin mode from within each clients’ widget, that synchronizes nightly with each analytics platform to provide a single point of access for all your analytics.
Command Console
Modernized UX/UI updates across the apps and admin mode of the widget!
New User Interface Updates!
Modernized UX/UI updates across the apps and admin mode of the widget!
Automatic Event Sourcing
The OccasionGenius API helps to connect DMO'S to events that occur in their regions, making it easy to populate a robust and relevant events calendar automatically.
Intelligent 311 Reporting
The Woodway 311 apps serve as a non-emergency service portal that provides Woodway citizens a way to stay up to date on severe weather events, and things like city-wide street closures & sewer projects. Citizens can also report high weeds, street issues, stray animals, junk cars, and more.
Daily Data Syncs
In today's connected world, people expect the latest and greatest information at their finger tips with a few quick clicks. And with the only constant being change, destination marketers have a tall task to keep their attractions, lodging, dining, and events up to date for their data hungry audience.
Interactive Kiosk
Imagine a group of travelers walking up to an image rich 50 inch touch screen with all the local dining options shown on a map with details about each place, phone number to call, website they can click on, etc. What’s better is they can add on to the dinner spot and plan out their entire itinerary.
Twilio Text Messaging Support
We are excited to announce an all new integration with Twilio, providing support for SMS sharing to a mobile device right from your website.
Integrated Trip Planning
With Visit Widget’s Session API, clients can now incorporate interactive trip planning functionality more granularly across [...]
User Selected Travel Mode
Your users aren’t always going to be behind the wheel as they navigate your destination. Sometimes, [...]
Surrounding Attractions
From the My Plan tab in the widget/apps, users will now see additional pins on the [...]
Grid Menu Home Screen
Gone are the days of conventional tree structure navigation; endlessly drilling down through lists of categories until you eventually find what you were looking for, only to have to navigate back through the same amount of clicks to return to the main menu... so frustrating!
Growth, Innovation, Impact: The Features That Defined 2025
2025 wasn’t just about adding features. It was about reshaping how travelers discover, plan, and experience destinations, and giving our partners more control, intelligence, and flexibility than ever before. From AI-powered traveler support to a fully redesigned platform, last year marked one of the biggest leaps forward in Visit Widget’s evolution. Here’s a look at what you helped make possible.
Challenge Submission Custom Fields
The sky is the limit on creativity when it comes to creating challenges in the widget/apps. Because of [...]
Command Console
Modernized UX/UI updates across the apps and admin mode of the widget!
New User Interface Updates!
Modernized UX/UI updates across the apps and admin mode of the widget!
Command Console
Modernized UX/UI updates across the apps and admin mode of the widget!
CCPA Compliance
CCPA went into effect on January 1st 2020, so we were hard at work in early December [...]
Command Console
Modernized UX/UI updates across the apps and admin mode of the widget!
Surrounding Attractions
From the My Plan tab in the widget/apps, users will now see additional pins on the [...]
Embeddable Maps
Embeddable Maps The following details various configuration options available to create segmented views of widget content for [...]
Twilio Text Messaging Support
We are excited to announce an all new integration with Twilio, providing support for SMS sharing to a mobile device right from your website.
