HipMaps designs unique custom maps with an interactive companion app, helping visitors explore destinations, navigate event itineraries, and discover local hot spots with ease. Stand out from the crowd with a personalized guide to the best of your area and shine a light on the locally-owned businesses that make it special, whether guests are in town for business, attending an event, or exploring on their own.
Want to show visitors that your area really is THE BEST?
Determined to keep local businesses alive and thriving?
Looking to elevate conferences and events?
Focused on driving more revenue to your community?
Let HipMaps help chart the course of your success!
Want to show visitors that your city really is THE BEST?
Determined to keep local businesses alive and thriving?
Looking to elevate conferences and events?
Focused on driving more revenue to your comminity?
Let HipMaps help chart the course of your success!
Elevate your visitors’ experience & showcase what makes your area unique in a variety of ways!
It’s like a 24/7 concierge to share your local expertise & connect with guests via a branded map in your style!
Enhance your attendees’ experience by guiding guests to planned activities & curate recommendations for their free time!
Custom maps for sports events and tournaments that guide attendees, showcase sponsors, and enhance every moment—on and off the field.
Turn Parents’ Weekends, Admissions Events, Alumni Gatherings & Sports Events into unforgettable experiences with HipMaps.
HipMaps is versatile and can be helpful for a wide variety of situations, from onboarding new employees to college parents engagement and more!
Take it up a notch for your tasting room guests with a map of your vineyards & AVAs, designed in your branding!
HipMaps is also a revenue generator! Highlighting local businesses on your HipMap brings dollars to your community and neighborhood – a collective win. You can also solicit sponsorships to offset the cost of your HipMap. Book a Discovery Call with us and let’s brainstorm!
HipMaps brings destinations and events to life in a unique way: through a custom-designed maps and companion smartphone app, showcasing what makes an area or an event special while making it easy for visitors to explore, all thanks to the destination or event HipMap host.
Any and all! We work with municipalities, Chambers of Commerce and tourism organizations, wineries, colleges and independent schools, hotels and vacation rentals, sports event organizers, meetings and festival organizers, wedding planners and engaged couples, venues, concierge and hospitality professionals, and more.
Any type of event but especially those who have attendees and visitors coming from out of town and who will benefit from local knowledge the HipMap host can provide. We have created maps for wine associations and groups of wineries, conferences, sales meetings, incentive trips, sports tournaments, marathons, college alumni and family weekends, festivals, hiking trails, art walks, historical tours, cookie crawls, weddings, and more.
Google Maps is built to show you everything. A HipMap is built to show you what matters, hand-selected by the host of the map (usually a destination or an event organizer). By focusing on the points of interest that are most relevant to you and your audience, HipMaps makes exploring an area simpler and more meaningful. HipMaps are also designed in the style and branding of the host, where Google Maps is just, Google Maps. For more on this head to our blog post “The Map Google Is Unable to Let You Build”
Yes. You can download the app from Apple’s App Store or Google Play.
Users can:
Each package includes
No, this is not a subscription model. The fee to design your first HipMap includes hosting on the HipMaps app for one year. After one year, there is an annual app renewal fee of $100 for up to 1,000 app uses in one year.
It’s simply $100 for an extra 1,000 uses, capped at $1,000 for unlimited app uses in one year. Note: if you host five or more HipMaps in one year, all five HipMaps include unlimited app uses.
Yes! Businesses can definitely sponsor your HipMap, helping offset costs—or even create additional revenue streams for you —while gaining valuable exposure and increasing their visibility among your attendees. We will incorporate your sponsor’s logos on your HipMap and list them in the app for additional exposure, website links and directions to their door.
Schedule a Discovery Call and let’s brainstorm the best way for us to help elevate your event, destination, industry partners, venue or whatever you have in mind!
In the 5-minute video below, HipMaps Founder Rachel LeRoy walks through examples of how HipMaps helps enhance the guest experience, serves as a valuable tool for concierge, guest services and front desk teams, and helps with marketing for both your hotel and your event space. https://youtu.be/2ueLA-DTZm0 Every HipMap is designed
Custom festival maps and companion app helps Chambers of Commerce, Downtown Alliances, and Municipalities promote community events, spotlight local sponsors, and turn festival-goers into repeat visitors. There are typically two kinds of people at every festival: The person who strolls leisurely from the pumpkin patch to the cider tent, then
Today’s guests value authenticity and are eager to understand the story behind what they experience. They want to know why you grow one varietal here and the other one there. Your tasting room team & sales team can explain these details, but words alone aren’t enough to make an impact.
