Will This Travel ICO Revolutionize The Online Travel Industry?
As most people on Steemit, I absolutely love crypto currencies and getting rewarded for creating high quality content that people enjoy. As well as that, I'm also a big fan of traveling.
Unfortunately, I haven't come across a lot of ICOs targeting the travel space with viable business models and growth channels in the past... until today.
Meet Explorio, the world's first decentralized travel reviews platform.
I'm considering participating in their Steemit exclusive private pre-sale, because I love the idea and the team behind it. But there's more.
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You see... in 2017, for the first time in history, the global travel industry gross bookings reached $1.6 trillion, making it one of the fastest growing sectors in the entire world. That is more than 10% of the GDP of every single country in the world... combined!
Within this massive industry, we have the ‘travel information’ market, that includes websites like TripAdvisor, Yelp, Foursquare, etc. and it’s been reported that they affect up to 59% of all travel choices. But despite having so much influence, the travel information market is ripe for disruption.
Take TripAdvisor for example. Even though they are the biggest company for online travel reviews by far (made over $1.4 billion in revenues in 2016), its platform is filled with fake reviews, they have been alleged to delete people’s content for commercial reasons and their millions of users do not get rewarded for spending tons of hours contributing content.
The team at Explorio wants to change that by building a completely decentralized platform that rewards our authors with tokens and thus empowers them to travel the world by simply contributing high quality content on our platform (same like we have thousands of bloggers getting rewarded a great amount on Steemit).
The project was founded by Jacob Laukaitis, who has been traveling the world for the past 4.5 years while running various online companies (one of which has just been acquired in a seven-figures deal) and growing his YouTube travel channel to over 210,000 subscribers.
They are also supported by almost a dozen of prominent travel influencers, like Alexey Lyakh (1.1M followers on Instagram), Jackson Groves (246k followers on Instagram), Kara & Nate (190k subscribers on YouTube) and many others, including the most popular traveler on Steemit - Tim Said (17k followers on Steemit).
Not only that, they have a really strong people, who have spent years working at companies like TripAdvisor, Booking, Expedia, Google, Uber, Zapier and many others. Their ICO advisors have also done quite well and raised tens of thousands of Ethereum for their projects (Mysterium, CarVertical and AiGang).
The team at Explorio absolutely love Steemit and have been inspired by it for their project and that's why they've just launched a Steemit-focused private pre-sale that you can apply for right here.
They are working with a group of selected Steemit influencers to spread this message all across Steemit and I'm incredibly happy I've been chosen to present this opportunity to you guys as well!
So visit their website, apply for the private pre-sale and participate in the pre-sale until it's over. These guys say they are going to disrupt the online travel industry and I can't wait to see them make it happen. Let's help them achieve that goal!
If you want to learn more about the project, check out their white-paper here.
This post is just an information. As always remember to do your own research before investing into anything.
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Really cool -- I am a HUGE advocate of crypto and travel -- I would love to see this implemented and used!! I am going to Vegas again soon :)
I like the point that you are an advocate of crypto,I suggest you can make something like a special blog on steemit or website, you will help a lot of people by answering some qustions about cryptos. People need something like that,I thought it would be useful and cool!
I would love to see this implemented
Well I don't travel a lot but this looks quite intriguing would be definition of travel and earn crypto :D
If this will realize then the crypto world will have a huge leap and will skyrocket again since travel is a huge industry and this will attract millions of new crypto investors and traders. Its a win-win situation for all of us cryptonians :)
@kingscrown Really, I do not know about explorio; I am going to read, for understand this app.
I enjoy cryptos and trips.
I would love to see this implemented
@sazeebking I love to travel, because it enriches my experiences.
It makes my soul feel free and happy. Will read.
Thanks for the heads up! Upvoted!
This is a great concept. I’ve been contributing to trip advisor for years as I’ve travelled quite a bit but getting rewarded for it would be awesome. Will they allow you to copy over old reviews?
Is this going to be built on the STEEM blockchain? If so then by virtue of holding Steem tokens, some of the value of Explorio will accrue to Steem. Am I thinking about it correctly?
Can I just confirm a few things. The white paper talks about timeframes in months but gives no indication when the timeline starts or if it has started? Are you saying we are 2 years away from full launch?
Also, you are looking to raise 25k ethereum, so approx $19m is that correct?
Travel ICO is good idea.
Nice i love travels as you know and this ICO looks amazing