If you ask people around the globe, what they would love to do if they had a lot of money, the most common answer is, "I would love to travel the globe."
The value of the global tourism industry is more than $2.3 trillion. This alone speaks what traveling means to people around the globe. However, the travel industry is facing some serious problems.
The big players like Airbnb, Tripadvisor, Yelp etc. has no doubt brought about a revolution in this industry. However, the emergence of these players has led to certain biases within the industry. Search engine results are manipulated and marketing prices are tweaked. This, in turn, has led to an unofficial centralization within the industry, where small to medium companies do not have a voice.
Travelers around the world are getting frustrated when they try to find new places and activities and their frustration is increasing day by day. This is why Cool Cousin felt the need to enter this space.
What is Cool Cousin?
Cool Cousin aims to revolutionize traveling with a sharing economy powered by the humongous potential of the Ethereum blockchain.
Cool Cousin establishes a direct connection between interested travelers and the like-minded local people of a place. It serves as an information exchange of knowledge of the area, its culture and various activities that a traveler can perform here.
Imagine, your relatives live in a city. Obviously, you will get an unbiased opinion about the pros and cons of a place. Cool Cousin is just like that!
The like-minded locals, whom they have named 'Cousins', gives the travelers various insights of the place.
For example, for foodies, they suggest the best restaurants for having local food. For shopaholics, they suggest the best places for shopping and so on.
In short, it serves as an unbiased local Wikipedia of a place, which allows tourists to discover what they love. It allows locals to earn from their knowledge of their locality while ensuring an unmatched experience for travelers.
How does Cool Cousin work?
Cool Cousin is available on iOS as well as on the web.
Users can access exclusive city guides prepared by innumerable Cousins around the globe for an unmatched travel experience. The way in which Cool Cousin works is quite simple :
- Travelers choose their preferred destination.
- Based on their interests, a list of Cousins appear.
- Travelers can filter by bio, age and various other parameters to select the Cousin whom they think to be the best match.
- After selecting a Cousin, they get instant access to their city guide, that is available online as well as on the iOS app.
- Travelers get personal recommendations for the places they love from the Cousin they have selected.
- Travelers can also message the Cousin directly for something that they want to know personally.
In short, travelers can get insights about :
Accomodation
Restaurants
Places to visit
How to reach the place
And everything else from his desired local Cousin.
Cool Cousin thus removes the biases that prevail in the industry, restores balance and provides a much better experience to all the travelers around the globe.
About ICO
The CUZ token is the altcoin of the Cool Cousin platform. The CUZ token will be used for all transactions within the Cool Cousin platform.
The CUZ token supply will be limited to 300,000,000 units.
The ICO sale begins in March, 2018. 33% of the total tokens will be available for sale during the ICO period. During the ICO, 1 ETH contribution entitles possession of 3770 CUZ tokens. The hard cap for the ICO period has been set as 17,500 ETH.
Of the remaining tokens, 8% will be reserved for advisors and early supporters while 10% will be reserved for the team.
Verdict
The global tourism industry is surely facing some serious problems, and before it is too late, we must find a solution.
Cool Cousin, with its out of the box approach, tries and solves a lot of these problems.
Using local knowledge, the biases of these industries are removed greatly and the balance is restored.
Different taste of different travelers are addressed by having a huge pool of Cousins, who have varied interests.
This helps the local people to earn from their knowledge while providing a great experience to travelers, particularly for the ones who love traveling to uncommon places.
The powers of Ethereum blockchain are used by the platform, which ensures that this platform is future ready.
In short, we can safely conclude, that Cool Cousin will soon change the way the world travels - once and for all!
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Website: https://www.coolcousin.com/ico/
Telegram: https://t.me/CoolCousin
I believe this is project somewhat resembles Google Local guide program. I would love to check how this platform works in real.