Brussels is now available in your pocket, or rather on your iPhone. One click gives you access to the VISITBRUSSELS app, the App Store’s most comprehensive guide to the Belgian capital. The app is free and once downloaded can be used entirely offline without incurring roaming charges. This handy visitor’s guide is available in French, English and Dutch.

“Tourism is vital to the Brussels economy, especially in terms of the number of direct and indirect jobs it creates. Our aim at VISITBRUSSELS is to provide an up-to-date service for visitors. The app is a logical next step in the development of services that provide payback in the form of an increase in the number of tourists visiting our capital city,” explains Philippe Close, City of Brussels Alderman for Tourism and President of VISITBRUSSELS.

Through the VISITBRUSSELS app, the Brussels tourist office can now provide visitors with an entirely practical and simple means of getting their bearings wherever they are. The offline GPS shows their precise location on a map of the Brussels region. From there, finding their way to any museum, park, restaurant, café or other attraction couldn’t be simpler. The database, which is updated daily, contains some 1,200 addresses. It is subdivided into around 20 search menus, for example things to do or to see, accommodation, places to eat and drink, etc. With a 3G or WiFi connection, it is even possible to book a hotel room directly or obtain directions.

“Today, Brussels is in the forefront of interactive tourism and keeps up to date with the latest trends in order to offer tourists, whether from Belgium or abroad, the best possible service.  This app provides the visitor with a guidebook which he can take wherever he goes.  In a few clicks, he can find the keys which will take him to the very best Brussels has to offer,” continues Christos Doulkeridis, Minister-President of the Brussels French Community Commission (COCOF) responsible for tourism.

Brussels.mobi
To find out all the latest news and information whilst in Singapore. City.Mobi has launched its new guide to the city.

Brussels.mobi is the latest in this illustrious line up, offering click to call functionality – which means no scribbling down telephone numbers.

City.Mobi offers the most comprehensive mobile travel guides available, with over 800 cities in 200 countries listed. Each is developed by the City.Mobi team to combine into a single global travel directory.

However, each city retains its own mobile identity via a dedicated domain. Already on offer are Brussels.Mobi, Paris.Mobi, Sanfrancisco.Mobi and Sydney.Mobi.

Most entries are also linked to websites where users can quickly access more detailed information if needed.

Other key features include information on accommodation, restaurants, attractions, entertainment, nightlife, shopping, and transport.

City.Mobi guides include user reviews and traveller utilities such as a translation guide, currency converter, news and local weather guide.