Smart Trip Platform | A Blockchain Connecting Travellers and Travelling Agencies

collinberg (6)in #travel • 6 years ago (edited)

Travelling is no doubt one out of the ways we get to know other places and people of different race. We sometimes travel for business transactions or sight-seeing (tourism). The global travel business has been booming and accounts majorly for global Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

In the formative of the transportation industry, donkeys and other traditional approaches such as going by foot had been used as means of travel. With technological improvements, automobiles were innovated and closely followed by online travelling platforms such as TripAdvisor and AirBnB.

A Great Industry

Travel business is growing immensely and as analysts posit, it will keep up the pace in coming years. Though making travel bookings online had been commendable, the introduction of latest technologies such as the blockchain and smart contract technologies will replace this method.

There’s a new platform hinged on the blockchain technology that aims at improving the traveling industry and it's name is Smart Trip Platform. But before that, let’s look at some of the problems facing the traditional travel business.

Existing Problems

Though travelling had improved greatly in past decades, there are still problems in the system. You can now travel through automobiles and airplanes whenever you want to travel. On getting to your location, you need to have somewhere to stay; either in the open field or you lodge in a hotel.

Tourists and travelers likewise are often disappointed with insufficient feeding and accommodation that would last them through their trip. Tour guides on their part compound tourists’ plights by ripping them off and taking them to sites that are not in their schedule.

On the tourists’ part, he is expected to use latest traveling innovations such as travel agencies such as AirBnB, TripAdvisor and Wikitravel. However, such tourists barely have time to undertake the rigorous process of finding the right travel agency to use.

There’s the problem of communication and language barrier. Tourists might not have access to right channels of communicating with local service providers in their destined location. They sometimes feel uncertain of their destination as they’re not familiar with the terrain. On the other hand, making booking and reservations ahead of time is usually hard if there’s no tour guide to help you out. In some instances, tourists find it hard to make payments for their booking and in extreme cases; they face high commission for their transactions.

Local travel service providers are also facing issues. Most of them hardly utilize the internet and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) tools. So they’re literally shut out of the digital world. They also have to part with high commissions for their intermediaries just as they have difficulty in accepting payment and offering promotions for their services.

With these myriad of problems in the traditional travel industry, the Smart Trip Platform is here to offer both service providers and tourists with services that’ll meet their pain points.

The Smart Trip Platform

With the success of the blockchain technology, the Smart Trip Platform (STP) is using same to improve the traditional travel industry. It is offering a decentralized ecosystem on the blockchain to replace the traditional centralized platform used by many travel agencies.

STP will connect travelers to local service providers in their desired destination. If you don’t have the time to sift through various local service providers provided by platforms such as AirBnB and Wikitravel, you can rely on the Smart Trip Platform to automate the process for you provided you supply your needs. Try the DEMO
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The Smart Trip Platform allows for mobility as you can make your travel bookings using your PC, Android and iOS devices. Whether you’re looking for the best hotel to lodge, sites to visit or you simply want to purchase airline tickets, the Smart Trip Platform offers you exceptional travel services.

It also links you with travel companions who might be going your way. To ease the communication and language barrier, the Smart Trip Platform features emergency assistance and voice translator to help you out.

Travel agencies and businesses can use the Smart Trip Platform in promoting their businesses. Hotels can place low-cost accommodation on the platform to attract tourists and tourist sites can come up with impeccable pictures of tourist destinations to pique tourists’ interests.
The Smart Trip Platform will take care of your sundry travel pain points such as accommodation, treks, expeditions and transportation.

Features

Aside meeting the pain points of tourists, the Smart Trip Platform will also offer promotional service to local service providers in form of adverts known as Hot Deals. Hot Deals provides local service providers with relevant information of their future prospects (customers).

These providers can target their adverts by using tourist locations, area statistics and placing their adverts in different sections making up the Smart Trip Platform. Both tourists and service provides from extra features on the platform such as:
• Seeking for travel advice
• Joining chatrooms
• Share rides and tours

TOKEN

The Smart Trip Platform has a utility token known as TripCash. TripCash is an Ethereum ERC20-compliant token and primarily used in transactions on the platform. It can be stored in users’ Universal Cryptocurrency Wallet (UCW) and in future, there will be the TripCash Cards –a debit card that can be used for online and offline purchases.

Token Details

Token Name: TripCash
Token Ticker: TASH
Token Type: Utility Token
Token Standard: ERC20
Platform: Ethereum
Token Price: 1 TASH = $0.01
Soft Cap: $1 million
Hard Cap: $25 million