Four new Belfast related iPhone Apps have recently been launched to the iTunes App Store. The Belfast Music, Literary Belfast, Go To Belfast and My Tour Talk Apps were all launched last year in order to help raise Belfast’s profile and to engage tourists who may be visiting Northern Ireland for such events as the MTV Europe Music Awards or the Titanic Centenary.
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The Belfast Music App has been created by Belfast City Council in partnership with NITB, Filmtrip, Culture Northern Ireland and OhYeah to accompany the new Belfast Music website and the music bus tour, and to lift the international profile of music in the city. The app itself showcases many of Northern Ireland’s top venues and homegrown legends alongside more modern musicians. This exciting new app features musical accompaniment from Neil Hannon, The Undertones, David Holmes, Ash, Therapy? and the Ulster Orchestra and takes you on a journey through Belfast’s rich musical heritage.
The Literary Belfast App has been developed by Belfast City Council in partnership with NI Tourist Board, Filmtrip, CultureNI, Queen’s University and the BBC. The app boasts video guides by Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Paul Muldoon, Sinead Morrissey, Leontia Flynn, Bernard MacLaverty and Ciaran Carson, and offers the audience a unique view ‘Through Writers’ Eyes.’ Alongside this is a News and Events section, which keep you up to date on festivals, readings and literary events across Belfast. The app also features guides through literary landmarks and facts about famous writers from the city such as The Chronicles of Narnia writer, C. S. Lewis.
For locals and tourists alike, the Go To Belfast App is the perfect app for finding your way around the city. The Go To Belfast App is the official tourist app for Belfast and is full of information, suggestions on where to go, what to do and what’s on. The app has a number of unique features which help to make it stand out as the number one tourist app for Belfast. These features include telling the app where you are and how much time you have and the app will suggest what you should do and where you should go, a restaurant finder, local recipes and an offers section to show you great deals and where to find them!
Finally, the My Tour Talk App lets you listen to fantastic audio tours of many places around Northern Ireland, from the Giant’s Causeway, to the Fermanagh Lakelands. This app offers full length or ‘bitesize’ tours both of which offer advice on where to eat, shop, drink and what events are on, alongside giving information and facts about the surrounding area.
These apps offer a wide range of information on many areas of tourism and culture and are available to download from iTunes.
