Smart Trip Platform

mwaqar17 (47)in #travel • 6 years ago

Introduction

Travel and tourism is one of the progressive and emerging business in the world. Tourism industry has progressed faster than world’s economy in 2016 by 3.1% and performed better than the global GDP since last six years. Humans are very curious and eager to explore different sights of the world. Desire to discover and learn about unfamiliar places and their splendours, know about diverse cultures, traditions and their food taste is in human nature. A splendid trip of endless fun and sightings are attained with proper planning and guidance. To plan a trip either for tourism purpose or for business, one should have to do a research, gather information about lodging, cuisine, transportation and places of that city or country, to make the trip contented and successful. All this information is accessible online like guidebooks, AirBnB, TripAdvisor, Booking.com, Wikitravel, Hostelworld, etc.

Travellers and Travel Agencies Difficulties

Tourists and Tourism agencies both faced different problems and worries. Travellers might be deal with the problems like difficulty in gathering the information about the place, accommodation, booking and communicating with the travel agency. Language barrier is another big issue faced by travellers because many literature's available online are in their native language rather than in English. Access to the quality service providers with reasonable budget and safe journey are also not guarantee by the independent travellers.

Travel service providers or travel agencies also faced some problems. These companies can compete with the large travel agencies and hotel networks. These agencies must provide commissions and higher charges to other mediators, faced difficulties in payment systems, advertising budget, communication and settlements of conflicts. Local travel agencies do not have enough budget for their advertisement to show on map. These agencies do not provide the quality service and trained guides to their customers. The biggest problem for local tourism agency are language, less exposure to the foreign travellers and their demands.

What is Smart Trip Platform?

Travel industry has grown progressively since last few years. All the services required by the travelers like accommodation, tickets, foods, schedules of transportation, major/minor sights of the visited area, etc. and all the companies related to above mentioned disciplines are connected at one place, Smart Trip Platform. It is the blockchain ecosystem which is designed for the easy access to book tickets, manage lodging, find out restaurants and search out the various sights in your budget. It also provides the complete information about the place and trained tour guides and gurus for a trip fill with excitement, adventure, knowledge and enjoyment.

Smart Trip Platform provide a place where tourists and travel service providers can interact directly without any mediator. It is the common forum for all travel agency, tourists and private tourism service provider. It can also solve the language problem by providing the translation service.

Facilities provided by Smart Trip Platform

Smart Trip Platform facilitates both travel service providers for business purposes and traveler for their trips to spend their vacations and for professional tours. This platform has two central bodies one is travel service provider and other is customers. Payments for services, ads and products are easy to handle.

Travellers

Travellers under the contract of Smart Trip Platform facilitate with good services and conveniences which comprises tickets, transportation, accommodation and restaurants booking. This service provides easy access to the flight schedule, tickets and schedule for the transportation services in the respective city like buses, rent a car, ferries, trains and taxis. Lodging facilities like hotel reservation, booking of a room or an apartment, shared accommodation with other tourists are also provided to the users. Independent travellers who wants to travel with the expert and experienced guide or volunteers for adventurous trips rather than with a travel agency are also served. For exploring and visiting the various cultures and traditions around the world, detailed information about these events are also available on that platform.

Travel Service providers

Travel Service providers registered or member on Smart Trip Platform also served with various facilities and opportunities. Services like hostels, hotels, restaurants, guesthouse, private rooms or apartments, transportation rental companies, taxi providing services, restaurants or cafe owners, private and local travel companies are all in one place and easy to access to the users. These services can advertise their company by posting the ads on the platform. Volunteers and travel expert can also earn their money on this platform by using their expertise and posting the ads on the platform.

Other features of Smart Trip Platform

Other features of Smart Trip Platform are hot deals, text translator, rating system, emergency aid and conflict resolving system on the platform. Hot deals are available for limited time like discounts on services and ads, special packages of tours, special prices and sales on travel store. It also provides Text Translator tool on the platform to remove the language barrier and have a Trip Chat messaging service for communication and interactions of all the users for sharing their experiences and information. Rating system of service providers are also the important feature of the Smart Trip Platform. Travel service providers and users both can earn high rating points by their good services and by their activities on the platform respectively. Private members can also get more likes and rating by posting important and useful information on the platform. Information about the history, culture manners, attractions and laws of the respective city or country are provided on the platform. Assistance in case of emergency like money exchange, map direction, hospitals, tourist police and contact information of emergency services are provided on both online and offline mode.

Payment System on Smart Trip Platform

Money transactions and payments among all the users of Smart Trip platform either travelers or travel service providers is controlled by the internal money transfer system of the platform. Official currency of the platform is cryptocurrency. Token used for the money transfer, payments and rewards between all users are TripCash (TASH). Universal Cryptocurrency Wallet (UCW) was owned by every user of the platform to make the payments of services, ads, products and received the rewards in ERC20 cryptocurrency. Smart Trip Platform will also provide the facility for payments and rewards through TripCash debit card service. In case of fiat money transfer for purchases around the world either online or offline, TripCash debit card will also be used on less commissions.