SMART TRIP:- CONNECTING TOURIST AND TOURIST SERVICE PROVIDERS

jayhk (38)in #travel • 6 years ago (edited)

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A lot of people love traveling, even if you hate traveling, at some point you will need to go for this event or this appointment of some sort.This shows it is an essential part of existence as humans are prone to changing region from time to time . Vacations are also important part of ones life, from time go time we need that break .The human body needs its rest, so we take our time to go on vacation to sites we have always wanted to be, this helps in refreshing the body and soul .This lead to a substantial the travel in the travel industry, the industry has seen a growth of over 3.1% way back as at 2016 .The travel industry is a very important part of the economy, it has been proven that for the past six years in a row the travel industry has outshined the global GDP. In years to come this trend will keep increasing , as people never run out of events, appointments and needs to travel from one place to another.

The travel industry is doing so well, but at the same time it is not perfect yet, as it has issues that plagues both tourists and local travel service providers .This issues mainly relate to tourism . When it comes to tourism, big sites and popular tourist zone gets very high influx of tourists due to the fact that it is well known and everyone wants to be able to say I have been there .This leads to low turn outs in equally fascinating sites that is not as popular as the former .We all know that hype is very important, when areas are hyped, lets say on social media, you notice the extent people will go just to get to that particular site that everyone is talking about. This shows how centralized the travel industry is , only the big guns with enough resources to push their sites for the world to see gets huge influx of tourists, to the detriment of other financially smaller tourism sites.

When people keep patronizing the popular tourism sites and leave the unfamous ones, it affects the business of travel service providers in that place . Examples of travel service providers include, restaurants, tour guides, spar houses and so on.

This services providers in the poorly visited tourism sites suffer financially, as they are not able to render the services they want to. So this points at the saying THE RICH GETS RICHER ,AND THE POOR GETS POORER. Larger tourists sites keeps getting congested while the smaller ones get de-congested . When this larger tourist sites keeps getting increasingly high demand for their tourism services, it leads to increase in price of their services .It is only natural that price increases, as they are now seen as hot cakes, and the know they are important, so to make more profit and be able to meet up with the demand, they increase the price of their services .And on the other hand the tourist themselves are willing to sacrifice even a little further, just to have a taste of what they have always heard people talk about. This then points out the fact that, though the amount of tourists goes to the roof , the satisfactory rate differs from person to person, as some people are quite strained to make higher payments than what tbey had already budgeted.

CHALLENGES FACED BY TOURISTS

Most times, people are very excited to go on this vacation, or on this excursion and when they finally get there, they begin to wonder if the whole stress was worth it?

problems faced when preparing for a trip

Communication:- Though the local travel service providers of tourist zones exist, finding them online which is very convenient is not possible as many cannot be reached online .
Languages:- When about to travel, and you think about the language barrier in that area, you get discouraged. Then when the tourist decides to get there at all costs, and you notice the service providers do not communicate in your language,you might get pissed off.

PROBLEMS FACED BY TRAVEL SERVICE PROVIDERS

Financial problems:- competing with larger firms can be very painful, knowing fully when that they attract more crowd due to their vast financial resources, it makes the big guns get bigger while the upcoming guns keep struggling .
High fees and commission :- Providers of travel services have to pay huge fees to intermediaries(middle men) such as booking.com, if they are to remain on top of their game.

All the issues mentioned above can be parried if only travel service providers can easily lias directly with the tourists.This is where SMART TRIP comes to the rescue.

WHAT IS SMART TRIP?

This is a platform that helps to parry the issues mentioned above, as it connects all it users directly. Travel service providers can easilu have direct contact with the traveller or tourists. Smart trip will revolutionize the whole travel industry as it aims to reduce the time spent on doing researches on where to go for a tour and i also maximize the experience for the tourist.

Coupled with the fact that smart trip is powered by blockchain technology, and operate through smart contract technology,you are sure of transparency, and strong security on the platform .

HOW THE SMART TRIP PLATFORM FUNCTION

Transportation
Accommodation
Excursion and expeditions

Transportation :- On the smart trip platform there is provision for purchases of flight tickets, bus tickets,train tickets and car rentals. Due to the fact that local travel service providers are also registered user of the platform, tourists have a variety of choices to make for maximum satisfaction .This service providers are rewarded with ratings when they get the job done .
Accommodation:- The platform will help tourists get the best and most satisfactory accommodation they need in their desired location.A tourist decide which of the local service providers works with him financially and way his odds .All the functions of various accommodation advertisers such as booking.com, AirBnb,hostel world and so on will be integrated into the smart trip platform.To enable the tourist navigate and select the best for him .
````Excursion and expenditions```:- Tourists will be offered the best when it comes to this section, tourists can easily select desired tour guides that will guide the tourists to and fro their destination.Tourists are sure to make their best choice from a wide range of options.

TASH TOKENS

This is the the token that is to be utilized for payments or transactions on the smart trip platform .It is very important because payments has to be made. Benefits of the Tash tokens includes