Organizers For World Meeting Of Families Developing App To Help Visitors
By Mark Abrams
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- With up to 1.5 million people expected to visit Philadelphia for the World Meeting of Families and to see Pope Francis this September, organizers are now developing an app for that.
It's being put together by the Go Philadelphia committee of the World Meeting organization and it's due to be released sometime in July. Tore Fiore is a committee member and executive director of the Brandywine Conference and Visitors Bureau in Delaware County. Fiore says the app is designed to give visitors an easy-to-find list of things to do and see while they're here.
"It gives them a taste of what Philadelphia and the countryside -- and there's 11 to 13 counties -- have available and whatever their interests may be," he says, "because each of the counties are different, they're varied, they have a lot of exciting things to do in this whole region."
Fiore says IBM is helping to develop the app. He says information on how to get it when it's ready will likely be through the World Meeting of Families Philadelphia website.
