Please

in #please6 years ago

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Our Solution: Please
On Please, all a traveller has to do is speak his or her request or fill in a few fields, like number of people, theme, location, and travel dates, etc. on an online or mobile interface as shown in Figures 1, 2 and 3 below.
Please is revolutionizing the way travel is booked by offering travellers a broad array of comprehensive, pre-designed trips, based on their interests or the occasion for traveling. Trips are created by locals or avid travelers with knowledge of the area. Then the traveller can book these trips with one click or a single voice command.
The system then presents the traveller with a list of trips to choose from, including the cost. He can see the details of each trip before booking it - hotel, restaurants, and so on, as shown in the screenshot in Figure 4 and 5.

Business Strategy
Please earns a profit by charging between 5% and 10% of each trip
booking - the more expensive the trip, the lower the percentage
charged - plus 5% of each booking payable in PLS, which goes to
the rewards pool, for a total booking fee of 10–15% which is within
industry standards .

The Problem
Travel is a $2.5 trillion industry but while the sharing economy has 3 expanded the range of services, the last major innovation in travel booking was at the end of the 1990's when companies like Expedia and Travelocity were founded.
Today, more people than ever are traveling, whether for business or on holidays, but have less time than ever before to plan trips.
The sharing economy took the travel industry by storm: AirBnB has 1 more rooms than the world's top five hotel brands put together . 2 Despite this huge shift in customer behaviour, the fundamentals of the industry haven't changed much. The travel industry, like many industries, has historically been driven by "who is providing the service" instead of "who is buying the service".
The number of last-minute, spur-of-the-moment trips have increased dramatically in the last five years, and the number of trips booked on mobile devices has seen a massive increase as well
A traveller can find articles describing "Three Perfect Days in Paris" or "How to Spend a Week in San Francisco," with hour-by-hour itineraries of where to eat, where to stay, and what to see, but while they feature hotels, restaurants, and professional activity organisers, they don't include shared economy options or the many local experiences that only a knowledgeable local could suggest. Plus, in order to book these you have to spend hours visiting and researching numerous websites or making a massive amount of phone calls.
As more travellers feel overwhelmed by the amount of research necessary, they are turning to travel agents to gather information. However, they are less likely to end up booking with a travel agent because:
Travel agent designed trips do not give the "Live Like a Local" experience that people are looking for .
A trip only contains services inherited from the classic side of the industry like hotels, restaurants and activities organised by businesses and doesn't include services from the sharing economy.
A considerable premium is applied to the overall price of a trip so that a travel agent and each level of reseller can take a commission fee.
Services contained in a trip may not be the best quality for the price, instead they are likely to be chosen among business partners offering the best commission to a travel agent.
A trip is designed as a "one-size fits all" and customisation is usually limited giving a "touristy" aspect to the trips .
Service providers are at the mercy of OTA's and other intermediaries who are charging high booking fees. Smart Contracts are part of the solution but there's no market yet due to the Blockchain steep learning curve

Tomorrow
Another area that will change is fees. Today's marketplaces charge expensive fees because they have high overhead for things like hosting. When blockchains become universal as analysts are predicting, these costs will go away or be greatly reduced, and today's business models will no longer be valid.
Please's underlying platform is not designed as a travel site, but as a services marketplace. As time goes on, we will add portals for services in other markets, starting with services that compliment travel, such as food delivery or laundry services, gradually expanding into a number of additional markets.

Smart Contracts
Smart Contracts allow two parties to have a transaction directly, without the need of a trusted third-party. By integrating Smart Contracts in its infrastructure and business model from the beginning, Please does not rely on being this trusted third-party. Instead, it is focused on being a matchmaker to initiate relationships between service providers and final users.

Cryptocurrencies
Cryptocurrencies are a much more effective way to do transactions online and are cheaper than using credit cards, both from a fee and fraud perspective. In a world where cryptocurrencies are the online payment norm, Please won't have to change its processes or infrastructure to adapt, since it is a form of payment accepted natively from day one.

WEB SITE: https://protocol.please.com/
WHITEPAPER: https://protocol.please.com/assets/Please.com-Whitepaper.pdf
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PleaseProtocol/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/PleaseProtocol
Telegram: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pleasedotcom/
LinkedIn: https://t.me/PleaseProtocol
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/PleaseTrips/
Medium: https://medium.com/pleasedotcom
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/PleaseDotCom/
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