How to find and convince pilot customers for your travel tech products?

I recently built a simple MVP for a community of travel guides to create shared maps where members can mark their long-term locations and temporary travel spots. Meant to help members see who's where and discover potential meetup opportunities when their paths cross. Basically to replace a manual Google My Maps overview +community features. The MVP is at spaces.manyways.app/en

Now I'm eager to expand this concept to other communities or organizations that could benefit from such a tool. I'm looking for pilot customers/users who can help shape the product's development through their feedback and specific use cases.

My question to you all: How have you successfully found and convinced pilot customers for your travel tech products? What approaches worked best in the early stages?

For those who've run successful pilot programs, did you charge for early access or offer it free? How did you structure your feedback collection? Any lessons learned would be incredibly valuable.

Thanks in advance for your insights!

If you're keen to look at the MVP you can join a demo space here: spaces.manyways.app/join/u9JlJEpbLuvV6Fz7pZkc if you wanna create your own space, just hit me up.