Uber is rolling out a characteristic designed to assist folks uncover new issues within the areas round them. Through the Explore tab within the Uber app, you may make dinner reservations, take a look at live performance listings and find out about cultural highlights. You’ll be capable of see Yelp opinions, pictures and instructions for a wide range of experiences.

For the primary time, customers can ebook experiences and purchase tickets by way of the app with their Uber pockets and cost profile. With one-click rides, you’ll be able to immediately ebook a visit to the restaurant or live performance venue.

Based in your Uber and Uber Eats historical past, you may see suggestions for issues like food and drinks, artwork and tradition, music and nightlife. There will likely be presents out there, together with discounted rides to sure eating places. Uber says the offers will change relying on what’s common in a given space.

Uber is not charging eating places a reserving price for reservations made by way of Explore. However, it could add a service or reserving price for some experiences. The firm will reveal extra about ticketing companions at a later date. It’s not but clear what varieties of advantages Uber One members will obtain by way of the Explore tab, although Uber promised to share extra particulars within the coming months.

The characteristic goes stay right this moment in 15 areas: Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Memphis, Minneapolis – St. Paul, New Orleans, New Jersey, Upstate New York, Orlando, San Antonio, San Francisco, Seattle and Mexico City. Uber plans to convey Explore to extra places and so as to add different forms of occasions and experiences.

Uber Explore may very well be helpful for spontaneous journeys to a brand new metropolis if you do not have a lot time to plan beforehand. It might additionally come in useful for downtime on enterprise journeys or to simply find out about new issues in a spot the place you have lived for some time.

Offering suggestions about native experiences, occasions and locations to take a look at is hardly new. Foursquare, Airbnb, Google Maps and Eventbrite (to call just a few) have been providing folks suggestions for issues to do for years. Still, by baking Explore into its ridehailing app, Uber not solely needs that can assist you discover cool spots and occasions, however that can assist you get there and again house.