TourVia.me – A Marketplace For Escorted Tours
Traveling can be fun. Traveling can be frustrating. Even if you have miles and miles of experience, you will occasionally run into some problems. It would be nice to have somebody to help you with that, no? Also, it would be nice that you be able to find all the help you need in just one place. Well, Tourvia.me is that one place.
Tours Made Easy
Tourvia.me is a startup, but also a marketplace for escorted tours. Forget about travel agencies and the old ways of take-it-or-leave-it traveling arrangements and agencies. Here you will find, compare and book handpicked escorted tours from trusted tour operator partners. All you have to do is pick one.
Advantages are numerous. For starters, all you need is in one place. No more wasting your time on searching and digging in hundred places for that one tour your heart is aching for. Here, everything is categorized, with all relevant information on display.
A map will follow all of your adventures and it will help you to manage your trip efficiently. There are also the always-helpful user ratings, because who wants to go on a tour that is so-so? Also, the numerous filters will narrow your search down and make it simpler and faster.
Since there is no middleman between you as a user and operators, prices shouldn’t be inflated. Escorted tours have numerous advantages too. There is always someone for assistance, you don’t have to worry about bookings, the tour operators usually get much better deals for transportation and accommodation and you won’t miss anything important while sightseeing.
Starting Up the Business
Recently, Tourvia.me entered the bulgarian accelerator Eleven. The startup won a “fast track” ticket for the Eleven accelerator program during the Spark.me conference. Team also won at hub:raum WARP accelerator contest in Poland, but they still opted for Eleven. Bojan Ćinćur, one of the co-funders explained why they chose Eleven:
Although relatively young, Eleven is a very experienced startup accelerator. It has a big network of mentors and contacts with many investors and people from different industries. We know that it has a lot of contacts that will be of great help to us. The investment from Eleven will allow us to focus completely on building our product, and that is the most important thing right now. Till now, we were slowed down by jobs that paid our bills.
Bojan also revealed some of the short term goals of Tourvia.me. In the next three months, they will launch MVP (Minimum Viable Product), sign partnerships with tour operators and start selling tours. The long term goal is to build a world renounced web service in the tourist industry.
