The two new mo­bile ap­pli­ca­tions set to help des­ti­na­tion T&T in­crease the im­pact of its dig­i­tal mar­ket­ing foot­print were launched at World Trav­el Mar­ket (WTM) which end­ed yes­ter­day in Lon­don.

Wan­der­scape and Birds of Trinidad and To­ba­go have piqued the in­ter­est of vis­i­tors to the T&T booth at the mas­sive trav­el in­dus­try event.

Birds of Trinidad and To­ba­go is an app for bird­ing en­thu­si­asts and is avail­able for free down­load dur­ing WTM.

Wan­der­scape, a so­cial trav­el mar­ket­place app, is de­signed to help trav­ellers "dis­cov­er, share and book au­then­tic lo­cal ex­pe­ri­ences." It of­fers vis­i­tors a unique view of the des­ti­na­tion with au­then­tic ex­pe­ri­ences through the eyes of a lo­cal.

With re­gard to air­lift, the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) an­nounced on Mon­day that Thomas Cook Air­lines will com­mence an air ser­vice di­rect from Man­ches­ter, Eng­land to To­ba­go from No­vem­ber 2016. This ser­vice will add 10,000 seats to the route, in­creas­ing ca­pac­i­ty and re­li­a­bil­i­ty of the air­lift.

In ad­di­tion, Con­dor Air­lines out of Ger­many has in­di­cat­ed in­ter­est in us­ing Trinidad as a hub out of Bar­ba­dos and British Air­ways will be strength­en­ing its re­la­tion­ship with the des­ti­na­tion through new mar­ket­ing ini­tia­tives.

Tourism De­vel­op­ment Com­pa­ny (TDC) CEO Kei­th Chin said sev­er­al trav­el in­dus­try pro­fes­sion­als and in­ter­na­tion­al in­vestors have ex­pressed in­ter­est in the T&T mar­ket. He al­so said sev­er­al writ­ers and jour­nal­ists in­di­cat­ed in­ter­est in high­light­ing the des­ti­na­tion's eco-ad­ven­ture niche.

The T&T con­tin­gent at WTM in­cludes se­nior of­fi­cials from the THA led by As­sem­bly­man Tra­cy David­son-Ce­les­tine, Sec­re­tary for Tourism and Trans­porta­tion, of­fi­cials of the TDC led by CEO Kei­th Chin and oth­er lo­cal tourism in­dus­try stake­hold­ers.