There was no real travel guide for Syria. So we built Ziko Travel.

Ask anyone what to see in Syria and you will get the same four answers: the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, the Citadel of Aleppo, Krak des Chevaliers, and Palmyra. All four deserve the fame. But ask what comes fifth and the conversation usually stalls. Not because there is nothing else. Because nobody can tell you where anything else is.

Syria is one of the oldest continuously inhabited places on earth. Every one of its governorates is layered with castles, ancient towns, springs, old souqs, valleys and viewpoints that would be headline attractions in most countries. What the country never had is a guide that puts all of that in one organized place.

The gap we kept hitting

While building Ziko, our ride-hailing app for Syria, we spent months researching how people move around the country and where they actually go. The same problem kept surfacing. Tourism information exists, but it is scattered across a decade of old posts, comment threads and word of mouth. Opening hours are wrong. Entry prices are missing. Nobody tells you that a place is magical in spring and miserable in August.

As of 2026, Syria has no complete, organized travel guide, digital or printed. If you want to plan a trip beyond the famous names, you are on your own. For a country this rich, that felt wrong to us. So we decided to fix it ourselves.

So we built Ziko Travel

Ziko Travel is a travel page inside the Ziko app, and it is the first of its kind for Syria. At launch it covers more than 600 attraction points across all of Syria's governorates, not just the famous cities. Nothing gets listed automatically. Every place has to pass our team's quality bar first: it has to be real, reachable and genuinely worth your trip. If it does not earn its spot, it does not appear.

The guide is organized into twelve categories, so you can pull up exactly the kind of day you are planning with a single tap:

• 🏛️ Historic: castles, citadels, ruins and ancient towns
• 🌿 Nature: mountains, rivers, springs and green valleys
• 🛍️ Souqs: the old markets and everything alive around them
• 🕌 Religious: mosques, churches, monasteries and shrines
• 🔭 Viewpoints: the spots locals drive to just for the view
• 🌯 Food: from street-food institutions to full restaurants
• 🎳 Fun: entertainment for friends and families
• 🏓 Sports: courts, clubs and activities
• ⛺️ Camping: where people actually pitch their tents
• 🛎️ Hotels: places to stay, vetted like everything else
• 💎 Hidden Gems: the places almost nobody talks about
• 🎫 Events: what is happening, where and when

Everything you need before you go

Every place in Ziko Travel carries the practical details that are usually impossible to find. How much the entry costs. When it opens and closes. And the question every Syrian trip actually hinges on: when to go. Some places belong to spring, some are at their best on a summer evening, and the guide tells you which is which.

Reviews live right there too. You see ratings and reviews from Ziko users next to Google reviews for the same place, side by side on one screen. No jumping between apps to figure out if a place is worth it. As far as we know, no travel product in Syria has ever put both in front of you at once.

Creators, inside the guide

This is the part we are proudest of, and we believe we are the first in the MENA region to do it. Travel creators are built into the guide itself. Open any place and you can see which travel influencers have reviewed it and watch the content they made about it, right there.

It works the other way too. If you like a specific creator, open their profile and see everywhere they went, what they reviewed and what they loved. Found a place through them? One tap and your ride is booked. Travel content and actual travel finally live in the same app.

The places nobody talks about

Here is what excites us most. Syrians tend to visit the same handful of famous places, while the country hides waterfalls locals drive past without stopping, viewpoints only shepherds know, and ancient sites without a single sign pointing at them. Every governorate holds places like these, and surfacing them is exactly what our 💎 Hidden Gems category exists for. We will not spoil any of them here. Some things you should discover in the app.

Part of something bigger

Ziko started as ride-hailing done fairly: 0% commission, drivers keeping 100% of the fare, every driver identity-verified, every trip tracked live. Then came the free public transport map of Syria we announced earlier. Now Ziko Travel joins them, and Ziko keeps growing into what it was always meant to be: a super app for how Syria moves, one of a kind in the country. New features keep landing, because making the app more useful for people is the whole point.

We are working hard to release Ziko as soon as possible, targeting the fourth quarter of 2026, so that tourists and locals alike can finally plan the trips this country has always deserved. Ziko Travel will be free to use at launch, for everyone.

Questions people ask

Is there a travel guide app for Syria?

Yes, now there is. Ziko Travel, built by Innoveev inside the Ziko super app, is the first of its kind organized guide to Syrian tourism: 600+ attraction points across every governorate, with details, reviews and one-tap ride booking. It arrives with Ziko in the fourth quarter of 2026.

What is Ziko Travel?

Ziko Travel is the travel section of the Ziko app. It organizes Syria's attractions into twelve categories, from historic sites and nature to souqs, food, camping and hidden gems, each listed only after passing the team's quality checks.

Does it show prices, timings and reviews?

Yes. Every place shows its entry cost, opening hours and the best season to visit, plus reviews from Ziko users and Google reviews side by side. You can also see which travel creators covered a place and watch their content.

When does it launch and how much does it cost?

Ziko Travel ships inside the Ziko app in the fourth quarter of 2026 and is free to use at launch. Innoveev is releasing it as part of making Ziko the most useful app in Syria.