Travel Planning 2.0 (Hmmm).
I can’t let the beans out now, but desperate I am. Truly. And, here it is…. spilling all over exactly as it shouldn’t. We have been working on this project for about 13 months, on and off and still only somewhat close to a beta. And that too a private one.
Simply speaking, we have worked out a cutting edge travel-planning tool to assist a traveler finding the best route, order, mode of travel, combination of modes, reviews given his choice of places, and dates of trip. We’d help the user finalize a trip.Not just that, we want one-shot simplified & safe bookings too.
On the other side, we wish to provide SAAS assistance to airlines as well. In these times of despair for the Airlines we believe that our product can give them an edge in lowering their distribution costs utilizing the economics of cloud-computing and SAAS model thereby beating the age of expensive GDS’s.
We believe that change is in the offing for the older distribution systems - all over the world.
Intriguing as this may seem, as to how the human brain works out through this mess of information, too often however, we fall prey to circumstantial or physical limitation of manually sifting/searching before finalizing a trip.
Finally, we end up phoning a human agent who takes all the pain (though he also faces the same problem, just with a little more practical exposure though).
We plan to introduce <strong>http://travolition - travel by choice </strong>which solves routing, re-routing, alternative modes, time or cost options, arrivals, departures, timings, providers, and finally the right combination of each compounded with opinions & web 2.0 based “communitized” information that together accounts for a “trip-plan”.
And typically for a multi-city, multi-modal global traveler the complexity & size of data and its crunching involved is mind-boggling. Even for the best of processors/machines available today.
Hey, and did we forget to mention that the travel industry has been running on a thirty year model anyways.
We decided to look at the processes ground up. Inspired by what Tata Nano did we started from scratch as well. And now, we are quite excited about our shiny new product.
The entire process of constructing a single trip for a single user gives us a fair understanding of how AWESOMELY humans are hard-wired to cut the crap and listen to other fellow travelers (word of mouth) and use their own experience if note-worthy.
In current face of industry, people involuntarily try to avoid the intermediaries (agent commissions) where-ever possible and also do not wish to undergo the torture of standing in a queue or surf between confusing offers online before booking a ticket (yet another optimization problem of our lives).
With Travolition, we intend to simplify or rather erase the pains of a traveler.
Our look out is to fetch the best combo of “comfort, price, duration and connectivity along with brand preference, budget and geography” which, needless to mention, are also linked to the user history & personal habits of a user.
Travolition - travel by choice - http://travolition.com - beta designed is to enable users find the most open, complete and economical solution and it helps the airliners, railways & also the wheels on the road to sell inventory with fuller control and watch the Analytics through their own dashboards.
Travolition - is a specialized planning tool to simplify complex search with really simple and responsive result.
And after taking everything into account, trust me, the entire computational power available to mankind off-date can be put to test before recommending a ‘good plan’ to a single traveler. We have come up with some seriously tricky search algorithms for the entire process and we believe they will benefit all the stakeholders a lot.
Rest in part - II of his blog. Keep in touch.
Cheers,
Marvin
