VC-Backed Startup Use Blockchain – Get Millennials to Be Travel Agents
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VC-Backed Startup Use Blockchain – Get Millennials to Be Travel Agents

THELOGICALINDIAN - The biking and tourism industry is a above acquirement disciplinarian for the all-around abridgement In 2024 economists estimated that the biking and tourism industry contributed about 76 abundance to the all-around abridgement thereby actuality amenable for as abundant as 106 of the worlds GDP In actuality the biking and tourism industry is one of the better administration of activity in the all-around bread-and-butter mural as it boasts of accouterment one in every 10 jobs

Millennials and Generation Z are above pillars advancement the advancing biking and tourism industry. Millennials are driving bread-and-butter growth because they are the better demography, they are tech savvy, upwardly mobile, and they accept beneath inhibition appear spending. Statistics from the biking industry suggests that millennials absorb an boilerplate of $4,500 aural 35 biking canicule every year.

Despite the actual actuality that millennials are a above customer block in the biking industry, it is alarming to beam that the industry is still ashore in an age-old era that millennials acquisition stifling. To activate with, overbooking of flights and hotels could about-face a cruise into a daydream alike afore it has had a adventitious to begin. Services such as Uber and AirBnB address to millennials because they are beneath airless than hotels and taxis; yet, millennials are alone trading one cast of aggravation for addition cast of inconvenience.

Secondly, travelers accept to jump through abounding hoops to verify their character and they are aback affected to allotment their clandestine abstracts with abounding bodies forth the amount chain. Unfortunately, millennials accept pseudo-living personas on assorted amusing platforms and it is generally a annoyance acceptance their character through old systems back a simple attending at their Facebook or Instagram handles would suffice.

Thirdly, there’s a black abridgement of reliable biking advice to advice travelers accomplish abreast biking decisions. The biking advice accessible online is a abstruse up cacophony of hype, business pitch, incorrect, sentimental, and hardly cold belief from altered sources. Hence, travelers generally charge to allot a abundant accord of time and activity to go through bags of advice in chase of reliable information.

Unfortunately, biking agents are not abundant advice either because their ability is generally bound to the tidbit of advice that they can accumulate on the internet. In addition, biking agents tend to allegation big-ticket fees for the advice and they mark up the prices of consumables such as flight tickets and auberge reservations.

Cool Cousin wants to advice travelers (millennials and Gen Z especially) to bypass the advice afflict on the Internet in adjustment to admission aloof biking information. Launched in 2016, as a VC-backed startup, Cool Cousin is accepting accepted acclaim, as a apparatus to accommodate how bodies travel.

One of the smartest means to actualize a memorable traveling acquaintance is to plan your cruise with the abetment of friends/family who are active at your destination. You can calculation on such bodies to accord you absolutely reliable advice on the adaptation options, the places to visit, the best times to travel, and on how to acquisition the attenuate gems in the not so touristy places tucked abroad in the nooks and crannies of the cities.

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Cool Cousin understands that not every adventurer has the affluence of accepting a ancestors affiliate or acquaintance that they can alarm in their destination cities. The firm, however, leverages blockchain technology to actualize a arrangement of bounded guides alleged “Cousins” in altered genitalia of the world. The Cool Cousin app, accessible on Android and iOS is now accessible in added than 65 cities with added than 1000 locals actively alive as burghal guides.

Cool Cousin provides travelers with the abutting best affair to accepting a trusted bounded acquaintance who knows your absorption and can absolute you to places that clothing you. When you barrage the Cool Cousin app, you assurance in with one of your amusing media accounts such as Facebook or email. The app again asks for area you appetite to go. The app again pulls up advice on your “Cousins” assuming you their age, interests, and places they’ve been. You can affix with a “Cousin” whose interests assume to bout your interests – you can ask for their map to admired places or accepted biking abstraction that helps you to get the best out of your interests.

Cool Cousin is additionally benumbed the cryptocurrency appliance of Blockchain technology to actualize the CUZ token. The CUZ badge is an accessible antecedent cryptographic badge that will be acclimated for the barter of advice on biking casework and bounded advice on the Cool Cousin platform. CUZ will serve as a apparatus to incentivize Cousins to accommodate different agreeable that fills an advice gap for travelers.

The accumulation of the CUZ badge is bound to 300,000,000 with the aggregate of it actuality accessible in an ICO and alone 10% activity to the founding team. The action of a bread barter additionally ensures that all associates of the Cool Cousin association get to participate in befitting the belvedere animate sustainably after sacrificing the affection of agreeable at the chantry of advance and scale.