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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 (2016-2025)
What is your favorite travel destination?
Q&AEast Coast, Tasmania
Where do you dream of traveling to?
Q&AVladivostok
What was your first travel job?
Q&AI wrote a booking engine for a small airline.
What do you want to learn more about?
Q&AThe most remote places in the world
Three words that describe why we should travel?
Q&ATravel with purpose
Comments 1064
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Great writeup and video! The trains carriages on the roof were a lot of fun, what a fabulous venue overall, plus some great people and music!
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I'd look for use cases within travel insurance companies (when they need to assist customers), and also airline ticketing or service desks - these may be areas with the biggest pain points for language communication.
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Hi Giuseppe, I'm an English-native speaker so have found myself on the other side of these conversations as the customer quite a few times. Calling is almost always a last resort for me, because I'd prefer to use chat apps (e.g. WhatsApp) where the oper... show more
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Hi Halil, thanks for sharing Routavio with the Travel Massive community. First, bravo on taking this from a university project to what it is today, that's quite a feat and it's very impressive! I'm curious if you can share some insights about the tech ... show more
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Hi Annie, thanks for sharing your story about TUBUDD and the Canadian history behind your Vietnamese travel business. I hope we can have you at Travel Massive Asia Conference in Da Nang next August to share more about your business and journey!
