How many times has it happened to you? You get a time off work and decide to head out for a fun-filled vacation. After taking a look at some travel destinations online, you choose to take a gamble with one having some pretty appealing pictures and reviews. You book accommodation for your destination and get your flight tickets ready only for you to reach the said destination and feel ripped off or played as what you see isn’t up to the standard you expected. Luckily, you can always plan another trip if you’ve got a lot more cash to burn. But deep down, you’d have learnt something very valuable which is never to trust such websites and their reviews again. This scenario happens a lot on several occasions to different people and it immediately smacks that old age saying right into our faces; “all that glitters is not gold”.
Travel agents and travel deals websites really don’t care about your trip. What matters to them first is the money they’d make off sending you into the unknown. Travel reviews on their platform is laden with assumptions made to look like facts, coated with alluring content and images to make you engage in transactions with them on impulse. Even if they had to send their writers and photographers to each travel destination to experience the pleasure of staying there, it will only serve as a weak basis for judging how well every other customer would be expected to enjoy their stay. Because many have fallen into this popular marketing snare, there is a lot of distrust and distaste brewing for online travel bookings. To be frank, “word of mouth” is the best form of advertisement and it is even more effective when you hear it from someone who is sharing their own direct experience with you.
Engineered using blockchain technology, Cool Cousin is a decentralized ecosystem in the form of a digital application where both travellers and local inhabitants of several communities meet. We can call it a new decentralized travel agent in the hands of the users. This unique platform brings travellers in digital contact with locals (who are actually referred to as Cousins) where they engage in an open interactive conversation while sharing vital knowledge of the local area to the potential traveller. This digital communion will grant the traveller undiluted, undefiled access to actual information about the tourist’s destination.
The app will contain very important features including listings for well over 60 travel spots. Cousins will also be listed on the platform so that travellers can select the specific Cousins that’d best fit in with them. The Cousins each have substantial knowledge of their cities or towns so when the traveller eventually meets with them, they will act as guides as they take the tourist (traveller) round the best relaxation spots in the city including restaurants, spas, bars, clubs, casinos and so much more (based upon the travellers’ request of course). The Cool Cousin project also serves as a kind of empowerment for locals within a city as citizens can leverage on their knowledge and experience of their immediate environment to monetize it as guides for tourists while saving their visitors time and money at the same time.
Building on the success of Uber and Airbnb, the Cool Cousin team have reason to believe that their project has ground-breaking potentials based on the encouraging statistics gotten from global Travel and Tourism. Since the debut of the first-ever commercial flight in the 50s, the number of international tourist arrivals has risen from 25 million to over 1.24 billion ensuring that its current $2.3 trillion revenue accounts for not less than 10% of the world’s GDP. As if that isn’t enough to give positive signs, Cool Cousin’s platform currently hosts over a hundred thousand active users monthly and that figure has been growing rapidly since 2016 with a consistent increase in the number of interactions held between unique travellers and Cousins. Cool Cousin is currently organizing an ICO in order to further expand on their project using cryptocurrency. Here is a rare opportunity for investors to grow with this exciting new prospect that shows a lot of promise. For more information, you can click on the links below.
Website – https://www.coolcousin.com/ico
Whitepaper – https://www.coolcousin.com/ico/coolcousin-whitepaper.pdf
Telegram – https://t.me/CoolCousin
Twitter – https://twitter.com/coolcousinco
