New App Helps Visitors to East Lothian Plan Visit

East Lothian local council launches a new tool to help visitors and residents maximise their time by avoiding overcrowding and queues.

23:24 05 May 2022

Visit East Lothian app has been launched to help visitors and residents maximise their time while enjoying its stunning coastline by avoiding overcrowding and queues. 

 

The free app, which is available on Android and Apple handsets, uses data captured from eleven of East Lothian Council's coast car parks. This allows users to check the busyness of these areas so they can plan ahead. 

 

Jamie Baker, Service Manager, Economic Development, East Lothian Council said: "The creation of the Visit East Lothian App has been a great example of collaborative working between East Lothian Council teams and the University of Edinburgh departments to help solve a visitor management issue and produce an extremely useful tool for visitors and locals alike. This innovative App is really easy to use and we hope that people will download it and keep referring to it when they are thinking of visiting our coast and also to find out about the wider East Lothian destination offer." 

 

Elaine Carmichael, Visit East Lothian said: "We are delighted to have launched the Visit East Lothian App which is a great new asset at the forefront of using innovative technology in a visitor management capacity. The App is just one of the exciting initiatives that have been delivered by the Visit East Lothian team in response to the Covid-19 pandemic all of which aim to ensure that tourism, which is a major contributor to the economy, continues to flourish. It links to the brand new Visit East Lothian website which has also just been launched."