What do you love about travel?
For me, it’s the anticipation of the adventures to come, the cool, new experiences, the GOOD FOOD and the awesome people you meet.
Traveling is the fun part.
The process that leads up to the moment that you finally have that boarding pass in hand, waiting to hop on that plane though, is not.
How many of you have been frustrated planning a trip?
I reached the height of traveler search fatigue syndrome planning my first trip to Africa. Figuring out when I should go, what I needed to know, and what to do triggered my first grey hair. I eventually half-cheated and booked a group package for part of my trip just to be done, but not without going nuts a few times first.
Then, I realized something. I wasn’t alone.
In the latest Forrester report, close to 70% of travelers are frustrated with travel websites. So much so, that they are going back offline to traditional brick and mortar agents.
Doesn’t that strike you as a little odd? The Internet is making nearly everything else easier, yet it’s done the opposite for travel.
So what do we do about it at GeckoGo?
We believe that the Best Travel Planning Experience in the World is not about having all the information in the world dumped on your lap; it’s about having the right information.
So we’ve set out to create “travel snapshots” — summary and recommendation snapshots about any place you’re interested in.
The basic premise is this: you come onto our Facebook app, Travel Brain, create a profile and log your travels.
You can also share your experiences with friends and fellow travelers in the form of reviews and tips.
We make this process fun with game mechanics, a points system and insights about you versus your friends.
As you give us feedback, we’re able to suggest new and cool places to inspire your next trip.
At the same time, we take your preferences and aggregate them with thousands of other travelers (660,000 and counting) to create destination summaries. This way, when you’re ready to plan that trip, you can dream up a destination, and check it out.
- What are the top must sees?
- Which of your friends have been there?
- What’s a rough estimate of how much it costs to fly there?
- When should you go?
As surprising as it sounds, “travel snapshots” that answer these questions aren’t out there (just try to look yourself!) We want to change that.
Our vision is to get you the right type of information, so that when you travel, you’re getting the best experience possible — without the grey hair.
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