Travelling? A Cool Cousin can give you a hand.

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We all love to travel, who doesn’t? we love the feel that gives this strange feeling to know a new place once in a while, but also, we have struggled with that feeling of deception when you get to a place described as “the best” by some website and… It isn’t, not at all. So, when you talk with your friends and family about it, everybody says : “Why don’t you called my aunt? She lives there”. Yes, everybody has lived it, at least one time in their entire live.

Now, you have the opportunity, not to call an aunt who may or may not know the places you want to go, but you can call a COUSIN, who definitely know better the city than you. This COUSIN can even make you a whole map to go to his favorite places all over the city, matching exactly the way you live and minimizing the chance to disappointment in a travel. After all, you COUSIN live there!

Cool Cousin is the closest thing to having a trusted friend in every city in the world.
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Tourism, is one of the most large industries in the world, with a value market around 3 trillion dollars, and growing. This is one of the industries that has presented a huge growth thanks to the internet, young people of these days are the same that were born with the internet, to them is totally normal check every type of social media and look for new experiences according to what they are looking in there.

But, internet, as good as it is, is sometimes like a big monster too, too much information of all, everywhere. So, sometimes you just need a smaller guide to look into, something easier to read, follow and enjoy. This is what Cool Cousin gives you. The info and knowledge you need about a city, like a good cousin will tell you. So, forget about wasting time and money, and let’s check them!

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Cool Cousin is a company that brings the opportunity to people, locals and travelers join together in a multipurpose website / app. In there, people who lives all over the world, offers information about interesting places, according to their preferences and life style. So, maybe you want to explore what has to offer Dallas, according to a barman’s view, so you can join these link or maybe you want to see some interesting things in Dublin according to a Google’s Consultant. You can look for similar ages, personalities and preferences… just check the information and the reviews, it’s pretty easy and fun.

It has some point of views according to your role, for instance:

To travelers, Maybe, you are a female traveling alone, you can check their tips to a safe travel, or maybe you want to travel with the love of your life, there you can review the most romantic places and choose one or many to go there! Cool Cousin has an easy to use website! As their target are millenials and Gen Z they know timing is one factor to consider, so you always will have a COUSIN to tell you where to go or what to do in that 10 hours in their city. Once you has connected with one on them, then you can contact any of them freely.

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Also, you can forget about a traveler agent, you can use in a different way those hours you spent in your computer just checking places to go, just trust your COUSIN use Cool Cousin and let them show the best and most curious places for you. Just find a person with similar preferences, you’ll see, you won’t regret it.

Then, you have places, in every city exists that expensive place , maybe good maybe not, that shows in every review, that place that’s considerated as the top places of the city, most of the time that kind of places get all the attention. And also, exists the little and good place only knows by the locals, is this kind of restaurant, hotel, shop that has the best opportunity to be known by tourist. Cool Cousin offers them these unique opportunity, a chance to grow, to be known by tourist , to get notice as they’ve always wanted, the golden opportunity, and they should use it.

At last but not least, there are the locals aka our dearest COUSINS, they have an important part here too, being that they are the food that keeps running the whole ecosystem. They are going to share their experiences, their food preferences, their favorite places to walk, to run, to meet people, even to find love!

How exactly all these work? Well, Cool Cousin has organized all in a decentralized ecosystem that allows these three parts intercommunicate with each other, everything powered by a cryptocurrency called CUZ and everyone get a piece of it. Travelers, are going to save money and CUZ with the recommendation that the COUSINS gives them, the COUSINS are going to earn CUZ for offer their knowledge about their own city. And places, are going to make money because they’re going to sell more of their stuff, it can be food, services, among others.

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So, CUZ is building on Ethereum platform and comply with the ERC20 standart. It’s a cryptocurrency created by Cool Cousin to monetize the exchange of information and travel services and thanks to CUZ all members of the ecosystem are going to be incentivized to offer their knowledge and get a reward. After all, thanks to the COUSINS, a total stranger can be benefit thanks to your recommendation, that’s a great reward… and you are going to earn some CUZ too, so, COUSINS are in a win – win situation.

Also, in this ecosystem, coexist two entities, they are the people and the company. The people brings the knowledge, photos, maps, opinions, in one word they bring all the info and the company make all of these puzzle and make a big beautiful image that offers to travelers. Tech and business development are part of the company responsabilities. So, the most fair thing is distribute equitably the fees received, don’t you think? Well, that’s exactly what happened, they share the fees. A part of it goes to the community and the other part goes to the company .

The CUZ allocation goes like this:

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Besides, there are other kind of participant in the Cool Cousin ecosystem, as I mentioned before there are the COUSINS, which profiles offers the main information.

-There are Pro – COUSINS, who can offer tailored services for tokens. Like concierge services or travel agent services.

-Users, these are the travelers, who enjoy the information offered. They can buy CUZ to get more info and, also, can make some money if they engaged to the platform.

-Contributors, they are some kind of “advanced users”, and can earn tokens for make a review or add value to the platform, it can be, take some good photos, get new Cousins into the platform, make some reviews, they are like the big brothers here.

-Editors, if a user can become a contributor, a contributor can become an editor. Editors will validate contributors information and will earn tokens for it.

-But the last word is in the hand of the Board of Representatives. They are like the grandfathers here, its power is shared between the company and the community, every cousin has the opportunity to be a part of the board, they just have to be committed to the platform, 6 months totally active, make at least 3 map updated and been totally responsible are the terms to apply and get a chair in the board.

-Bussines owners, in the near future, if their places have been promoted in the platform and the community approve it, they will manage their own place in the platform.

The follow image represent it in an easy way to understand how it works with an example:

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So, as you can see decentralization is the word that describe this platform, giving the same opportunity to all, no recommendation will prevail over other, that’s make a totally transparent environment to all.

How do you use Cool Cousin? You can use it in many forms, their unique point of view fit everyone preference, but you can have the certainty that you are going to get the better answer to suit you. You can use Cool Cousin to:

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In this order of ideas, Cool Cousin has created an entire system to protect users, so, the Cool Cousin makes sure all the COUSINS are trusted people, and will remove those who failed, without a reason, their part of the deal, thanks to the contract they made. This contract also protect the users in case of send money to purchase something, these funds will be locked in a smart contract until the customer confirms the transaction. Also, the Ethereum Blockchain protocol itself allows to trust all the operations made in the platform, their unique characteristics made it perfectly protected.

Summary
Cool Cousin is like you favorite travel agent plus the recommendation of all your family in one place, and spending less money! You have the experience, the knowledge of the place and the Ethereum blockchain security to keep everything in order. Now, you can forget the feeling that you are losing your time in some places, with these app you will totally enjoy your travel. Forget the travel agent, just check the info with some COUSIN. With these app all the travelling process will be easier, funnier and profitable to all parts involve.

Not for nothing they were

Best new travel app 2017.

Cool Cousin, the real info for a real trip.

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