EasyTravel

Discover The World Together

Idea

Two weeks before holidays?

Have you already planned the trip, found companions and bought the tickets?

EasyTravel

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PLAN

Be aware of your friends trips, find like-minded people all around the world

Create an entire plan of your trip in one place and take it to the journey

Share your experience, tell us about your secret spots and interesting routes, give smart tips for novices

Hypothesis

1. It's rather difficult for most people to find like-minded travel companions for the journey or holidays 2. People prefer to plan their trips by themselves. Importantly, most see the Internet as a very useful or essential tool for planning many/most aspects of a trip including where to stay overnight, planning travel routes, potential places to visit, attractions to visit, as well as learning about what to do.  3. People like to share their travel experience with others

Experiments

1. Survey We managed to get some results from survey created on SurveyMonkey.com . 62 people were participated, mostly from Russia and CIS. So results could represent mostly this market and possibly could have some bias cause most participants are our friends and colleagues. Though results still have valuable insight. 2. Face To Face  We have interviewed 20 people, mostly talking about problems that people face when planning their trips.

Results

Result #151% plan travels and book flights, hotels by themselves, another 34% of people sometimes use travel agencies, but also buy the tickets and book hotels. 

СonclusionPeople tend to plan their holidays by themselves, and our service can ease such planning.  

Result #266% uses email and Internet messengers to plan the trip collectively and 45% of them also use social networks. 

СonclusionWe believe that our service could enhance such experience by providing collaborative planning. 

Result #371% would like some active sport activities (such snowboarding, surfing, etc.) instead of only relaxing on the beach or doing excursions.  

СonclusionThat was quite surprising number, one of our value propositions is to provide such programs by partnering with surf camps, etc. 

Result #487% are well aware of online services that allows to book hotels and flights and use them. 

СonclusionMarket is well established in this area, if we will be able to provide useful service, we could get good revenue from brokerage fees. 

Result #564.5% only post some photos of the travel on social network, 6.5% write about their journey in their blog, 29% wont do anything to share their experiences, 0%(!) will write about their trip on specialized sites or forums

СonclusionWe need to attract professional and well-known bloggers and travelers at the initial stage of the project. We should also consider a system of motivation for new authors. 

Result #435.5% visit tourism related sites only when planning their next trip, 43.5 occasionally read travel reports and only 6.5% constantly read travel blogs or reports

СonclusionWe must think of how to maintain a constant flow of traffic to our site between vacations of our users. For example, we can provide convenient service to find interesting places and local routes for a weekend.

Final conclusion

Most of our hypothesis was correct. The biggest concern is ability to build community around travel topics, though we think the idea as a whole is worth pursuing. We will continue to work on our project and we're actively looking for a mentor with a good expertise.  And yes, we are looking for strategic venture capital partners as well as direct investors.

Our team

Daniil Pokrovsky

Vladimir Buzov Sergey Kuritzin

http://venture-lab.org/teams/5836

Alexander Sharipov

Alexander Cherevan

Yaroslav Latushkin

We are young, smart, and full of sense

Sergey Noskov