Wherever You Travel2
www.travels.to
Bartek Raciborski
bartek@travels.to

www.travels.to

www.travels.to

Social travel website
• Share experiences from your travels
• Show your neighborhood areas to others
• Explore the world virtually
• Plan your journeys
• Your own, personal place in web
• Easy way to show photos to your friends
• Interactions with fellow travellers and visitors
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Who’s behind: Bartek Raciborski
• Passionate traveller
• 7 years experience in web industry
• From developer to product designer and manager
• Experience in startups
• and in corporation
• www.linkedin.com/in/bartekr
• www.webstop.pl
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The problem of travellers who use internet
• They can publish photos, movies, maps, write blogs
• They can discuss on forums
• They can look for information to plan their trips
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The Problem: They need many different websites
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The Problem: They need many different websites
• Tiring and not comfortable
• You have to sign up to many websites
• Use many different interfaces
• Look for friends in all these websites again
• Interaction is dilluted
• You don’t have your own, personal place in web
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That’s why Travels.to
• One place for travel photos, movies, blogs, maps, ...
• Information, discussions, interactions
• Travellers community
• Personal place in web for all your travel stuff
• No need to create any new market
• Consolidate services, creating one good product
• It’s similar to why office suite software was made
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Our target
Active publishers
Heavy
Holiday tourists Expats
travellers
Just browsing
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It’s even more important how, than what
• Geo-tagging all types of content
• Two contexts: personal and geographical
• Time context
• Practical information
• Collaborative world guide
• Trip planer
• Connect people inside community
• Mobile access
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Business model
• Selling flights, accommodation, trips, ...
• Gadgets: printed albums, calendars, ...
• Products (book guides, equipment)
• Advertising
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Market size
• Travel services online market in 2006
- 38,2 billions euro in Europe
- 77,7 billions dollars in US
• 49,8% (37 millions) households w USA
- 41 millions in 2007 and 51 millions w 2010
• Dynamic growth
- USA: 19,7%
- Europa: 31%
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Rising online sales share
US Europe
50% 30%
46%
40% 24%
21%
30% 18% 18%
26% 16%
20% 12% 13%
10% 6%
0%
2005 2010 2005 2006 2007 2008
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Online sales structure
• 56% are flight tickets
4% - 27% cheap airlines
8%
- 14% traditional airlines
16%
- 15% agents online
56%
• US online sales in
16%
2005:
- 54% service providers
- 46% agents online
Flight tickets Hotels Packages
Train tickets Car rentals
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travels.to - our name
• Original and easy to remember
- last.fm, del.icio.us
• “Travels to”
- travels.to/china
- travels.to/china/beijing
- bartek.travels.to
- bartek.travels.to/china
• Attractive and eye-catching address
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What next?
• Securing funding and completing team
• Building and launching product
• Gaining critical mass
• Positive cash flow in 2009
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We’re looking for
• Software Developers
• Investors
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Bartek Raciborski
bartek@travels.to