The Only App Travelers Truly Need on Their Smartphones


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Forget the thousands of niche travel apps out there. Travelers today are using their smartphones to find out where to go and how to get there.

Finding directions is - unsurprisingly - the number one reason travelers reach for their smartphone in a new destination. More than half of U.S. adults report using their phones to navigate a new destination via GPS -- an activity more common than searching for restaurants (44 percent), looking up reviews (31 percent), and tracking flight changes (29 percent

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