Saint Augustine once said:
"The world is a book, and those who do
not travel read only a page".

Source: Google

Many of us would totally agree with Saint Augustine on this one. Traveling has always been an important adventurous, fun part of our lives. It could be dated far back to the Neolithic age, where Nomadic hunters and gatherers moved around just in search food following seasonally available wild plants and games. It grew beyond that to times when the ancient man had to travel by road to a strange land to meet people for commercial reasons and bring back immeasurable amount of wealth. And as time went on, traveling grew beyond just for commercial purposes. People now travel for lots of reasons and some may include:
• To have an adventure
• ‎Discover new cultures
• ‎For business
• ‎To find love
• ‎To learn
• ‎To expand ones perspective
• ‎To relax and rejuvenate oneself.

Source: Google

One of the beautiful things about life is exploring the world – ronarexx

Traveling has become even more complex these days. Travellers and tourists have lots of difficulties especially when it comes to finding good travel informations about their specified destination.

Source: Google

Some common challenges a tourist or traveller would face could be elaborated on using the following cases as examples;

– Mr. Rayan Matteo, a good marketer and business gurus based in Winnipeg, Canada who wants to take his business outside Canada. He was enlightened about the United States business world and decided to take his business to the next level. Mr. Matteo has never been to the U.S. before, he doesn't know where and where would be the best place to start marketing his products from when he gets to the U.S. Owing to this fact Mr. Matteo is having a rethink on this idea.

– Mr. Felix Peters, a football enthusiast that lives in Nigeria intends going to support his Country in the upcoming Fifa World Cup in Russia. Mr. Felix needs to book an hotel that would fit his budget ahead of time just to avoid being shelterless or having to stay in an uncomfortable room or lodge because of the expected large turnout of people coming to support their country and so accomodation might be difficult if left till dying minute. Mr. Felix knows all the venues of his Countries Group stage games (Kaliningrad, Volgograd, Saint Petersburg) but doesn't know how to locate them. He indeed has big plans for Russia, he also wants to use such an opportunity to tour Kaliningrad, Volgograd, Saint Petersburg as well and other parts of the country as the game progresses. As part of his tour, he intends visiting renowned and historical places, cool relaxation spots and restaurants in those areas but also again has no clue of locating each of them without spending so much money and wasting time. These factors discourages Mr. Felix already

– Miss .Mila Louis, a french photographer who happens to be an art, animal and music lover. Mila is a big fan of Beyonce and Beyonce is having a concert in Serbia. This is the closest Beyonce has ever come to Mila's country(France). Now she wants to attend and she needs to get a ticket for the concert in Serbia. Knowing pretty well that the tickets would soon get sold out due to the numerous amount of fans Beyonce has all over Europe, Mira has no friend or relative in Serbia to help her get it. Now the concert is in few weeeks, she just can't travel to get it and travel back and then travel again for the concert. It is almost seeming like Mila would miss an opportunity to go to Serbia. She planned not just to go for the concert in Serbia but also to explore, take photographs and visit art galleries.

Note: These used cases are just examples and as so are not real happenings. Characters are fake as well.

Many would strongly advice that Mr. Matteo, Mr. Felix and Miss Mira should contact a travel agent while others will suggest they visit websites like Expedia, Travelocity, TripAdvisor. Yes! They are not totally bad ideas but is this really your best option?

Go For The Best – Cool Cousin

No offence but it seem most travel agents are even more after what they stand to gain than the service they tend to render. Also, some of the informations offered by the above mentioned tourist-targeted websites very often misleads travelers. You know when you go on these websites to check local listing for business or places to visit when you want to travel to certain destinations, some of the places with 5star ratings actually doesn't befit it but instead it deserves a 1star after you must have experienced the place and found out the ratings were gamed, manipulated or bought. In real sense, you cannot always take a 50-50 chance on things as costly as this.
These indeed are some of the problems Cool Cousin are going to solve.

Cool Cousin – Meeting My Exact Replica as my Travel Agent

Source: Google

Cool Cousin is a decentralized ecosystem that was formed to significantly change the way people travel. The Cool Cousin app is self-powered by its own API and it helps provide informations regarding different destinations,spots,recommendations and events in the application. The platform helps provide a means for travelers to meet with individuals living in that destination they intend traveling to– a Cousin. A Cousin is an individual who has created a digital profile on the Cool Cousin platform and currently resides in the destination you intend traveling. A Cousin has first-hand knowledge about places present in his locality and can be able to suggest to you places of your interest. The function of a Cousin extends to acting as travel agent and involving third party providers such as hotel bookings,restaurant reservations and others – Pro-Cousins. Cousins don't search for travelers/users but instead users search for Cousins who are the right fit for them and get recommendations. The Cool Cousin API is fed with constant feedback from Cousins, user activity and sometimes Editorial team.

Now Mr. Matteo, Mr. Felix and Miss Mira from our used cases above can now search through a list of Cousins in their various destinations of interest and find that Cousin who has similar taste as them.

– Mr. Matteo would now find that Cousin who lives in the U.S. with a business mindset as his and would help him suggest suitable places that would favour marketing his products.

– Mr. Felix would find himself a Cousin and a football fan like himself who is also fun and free spirited. His Cousin will help locate different venue of interest in Russia including the various stadia. CUZ platform could assist him make hotel reservations through third party providers as involved by his Pro-Cousin. They go as far as acting as an Agent getting Mr. Felix a safe suitable spot before his arrival.

– Miss Mira would also find a Cousin that is a fellow art, music and maybe animal lover that would also act as her personal travel agent and the platform would assist in getting the ticket to the show right on time with the involvement of third party providers.

Have in mind that travelers get information for free from Cousins but in getting extra layers of informations and services, travelers have to buy token(CUZ- a token used on the Cool Cousin platform) and purchase those extra informations and services. Travelers could also tip their Cousins for a job well done.

I for one know that i would make a very good Cousin because no one knows my locality better than i do! And especially when i know i could gain from just recommending places that i find great interest in to people, i bet you it would be fun all the way for me.

Source:Google

Cool Cousin Ecosystem

Cool Cousin has an ecosystem made up two entities;
• The Company
• ‎The Community
The company aids all forms of development be it technological development, product development and business development that would help grow and maintain the community. The Community on the other hand consist of the Cousins, Pro-Cousins, User/travelers, Contributors, Editors, Board of representatives and Business owners. Each and everyone of these members have specific roles to play in the community. In the community, each will be rewarded with tokens based on his/her contribution to the network. Not only the Cousins or Pro-Cousins that earns here but Users earn as well depending on how involved they are in adding value to the platform and on a long run, they become Contributors. Users add value to the platform by appreciating Cousins, Signing in to a spot recommended by a Cousin and snapping pictures in that spot recommended as proof of place authenticity, flagging inaccuracy, publicizing Cool Cousin on other platforms to attract more users and many other values. When Users have gotten enough recognition from the community, they might now be considered to be ranked as an Editor. An Editor gets CUZ token in exchange for checking authenticity of Contributor's content corrections. Business owners are also involved as well when Cousins recommend them, they then afterwards will be able to manage their page on the platform.

Cool Cousin Token

As i mentioned earlier, the platform would make use of Cool Cousin Token, CUZ token which totally powers the Cool Cousin ecosystem. CUZ token can be used for exchange within the ecosystem. A Cousin gets CUZ token as reward for extra service rendered and as tip from Users. Users could also get CUZ tokens depending on their engagement in the platform and so does other participants in the platform receive tokens as well for other kinds of service rendered within the ecosystem. As more and more Businesses joins Cool Cousin, CUZ grows in usefulness and third party services like bars, restaurant are offered at a much more lesser rate.
Cool Cousin has a simple in-app wallet that enable users to manage and have full control of their token. Cool Cousin wallet encourages an easy User-Cousin interaction and swift transfer of CUZ token to their very own Ethereum as they so please.

Why Cool Cousin chooses Blockchain Technology

Cool Cousin makes use of blockchain technology so as to take full advantage of its attributes such as;
• Decentralization
• ‎Complete trustworthiness and
• ‎International payment and Micro-transactions.
Making use of these attributes, Cool Cousin would be able to solve probelms like;
• Commercial Manipulation and
• ‎slow and inconvenient payments.

Conclusion

Cool Cousin is here to stay and if given a chance, it would revolutionize your travel experiences.

For more information visit Cool Cousin website

Thanks for reading!

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