Hi, my name is Benoit and I'm passionate about how technology can disrupt the travel industry and ultimately lead to a better end-user experience.
I have been conducting numerous interviews over the past few weeks to gain insights into the way people curate, organize and share travel content, with the final objective of identifying opportunities to innovate in this space.
I intend to share my preliminary findings across a series of discussions on Travel Massive to engage with the community.
The first topic relates to the main information channels used by travellers to discover a specific destination and learn about where to go and what to do. Below a summary from the interviews:
- Friends / Family: For 67% of interviewees, friends and family’s word-of-mouth play a significant role in picking the next destination and 42% rely on their recommendations to know what to do on the ground.
- Social Media: 75% of interviewees mention social media, and specifically Instagram, as as key ...
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"Build in Public" is an internet community / movement of creators who share behind the scenes of how they do it. This means sharing their wins, struggles and learnings. Some people also share their business metrics.
There's lots of interesting things to learn from this community, and a good place to look is on #buildinpublic on Twitter: twitter.com/hashtag/buildinpublic
👉 Are you following a #buildinpublic maker? Drop a link to their projects!
Here's two people I'm following in the "build in public" space!
Kacper Goliński @thecaspg who created Traveler Map:
Rod @rrmdp who created Tourist Itinerary Bot:
@reymon359 and I (@digitalsole) are building Mapmelon (www.mapmelon.com) in public too. We are even working on a tool to make it easy to build in public (www.buildpublic.app).
Just followed Rodrigo and Kacper! Thanks Ian for creating this space to connect with other makers :)