Guest-guide translation for international travellers
If you host guests from outside your home country, you've probably faced this dilemma: write the guide in your own language and hope the guest uses their browser's translator, or duplicate the work and write everything again in English? Neither option works well. One depends on a rough translation. The other doubles the upkeep every time you change a detail.
Airguide solves this with on-demand translation. The guest picks their language, and the guide content appears translated instantly, including welcome notes, Wi-Fi, amenities, rules, and local tips. You don't have to write anything twice.
How it works, in practice
1. The guest opens the guide and taps the language icon. A searchable picker lists the original language plus a catalog of available languages. 2. Picking a language translates the content automatically. Welcome, essentials, emergency, amenities, rules, and local tips are translated while preserving meaning. 3. The translation is cached. Once a guide has been translated into a language, the next guests who pick that same language get the ready version instantly, without waiting again. 4. Editing the guide invalidates the translation automatically. If you change the Wi-Fi password or update a rule, the next time someone requests that language, the content is re-translated to reflect the current version.
What gets translated and what never does
To keep the guide trustworthy, only free text is translated:
- Welcome, essentials, and emergency
- Check-in and check-out instructions
- Wi-Fi notes
- Amenities and house rules
- Local tips (each tip's category and note)
Factual information, such as times, access codes, phone numbers, addresses, place names, and the property name, never goes through the translator. That avoids the classic machine-translation problem of scrambling a phone number or inventing an address that doesn't exist.
Why this matters for international guests
A guide that only exists in one language leaves out exactly the guests who need it most. Someone in a foreign country, unsure where the light switch is or how the AC works, is the person most likely to open the guide looking for answers. Offering content in the guest's own language, with no extra effort on your part, cuts friction at the moment it matters most: arrival.
The language is chosen by the guest themselves, per guide. You don't need to configure anything in advance.