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A recent interview with me and David Barrett on TravelDailyNews Asia: www.traveldailynews.asia/column/interviews/travel-massive-the-global-connection-founded-by-ian-cumming/
Fun stuff I've been involved in:
🌎 Built the world's first search engine for ocean research datasets (2005)
✈️ Developed Airlines of Tasmania's first online reservation system (2006)
💬 Launched World Nomads' "Ask A Nomad" Q&A Community (2009-2011)
🤑 Launched Australia's first flight deals website "GetFlight" (2011-2012)
👶 Investor in TinyBeans.com family photo sharing app which floated on ASX (2014)
🇨🇳 Built Jambo — a crowdsourced interpreter network, trialed MVP in China (2014)
🔥 Investor in Firechat (mesh chat app) — until the CEO disappeared! 🙃 (2019)
📱 Investor in SkyHi — the world's first subscription flight service (2019-2021)
💡 Founding team of the Social Entrepreneurship in Tourism Competition (2019-now)
🥾 CTO of MappyHour.org — a community for outdoor enthusiasts in the US (current)
East Coast, Tasmania
East Africa
I wrote a booking engine for a small airline.
The most remote places in the world
Travel with purpose
Mappy Hour is a successful community and it's great to see it still going strong! Much credit to you for maintaining and nurturing your community over the years. And I wouldn't have learned as much without your input and suggestions!
We use Fathom (a cookie-less analytics tool), plus we have our own on platform analytics (so there is no need to send the data to 3rd party).
I came across this in the ETF chat group and thought it was worth sharing for a Friday. You can view all the street signs on Ben's road-trip at http://benguin.co.uk/roads/ (Skip 30 seconds in the video to the start of the talk).
Is it just me or does "intentional travel" (or conscious, mindful, transformative, etc) seem to be mostly an American thing? In that sense, maybe it's a trend for US-based travelers but I don't see this being a global trend. We had a good discussion ab... show more
Hey everyone, please help beta test our latest feature! I've created a new feature called "Places" which allows you to record the places you've been, lived, and want to go. To access the new feature, tap on "Places" in your account menu, or visit https... show more
