igg.me/at/sogo-travel/x/6685374 SOGO.TRAVEL is a unique and innovative Web 2.0 site in the world of travel. SOGO.TRAVEL will release you from the constraints of packaged offers, allowing you to create, build and compose your own travel freely and in complete autonomy. My name is Christophe JOUVHOMME, Im 41 years old, married with two children and im the founder and CEO of the travel agency IVO Group that i created in 2004. Company (SAS) with capital of 328 000€ Our office is located in Saint-Etienne, near Lyon in France. My team is made up of 14 people (3 web developers, 10 travel consultants and 1 commercial agent). Everyone is passionate about travel arrangements, activity that we practice for 15 years with enthusiasm, passion and dedication. We share the same ambition and dream: to become the global leader in online travel sales 100% on line and 100% custom tailored, while respecting human and ethics values: - SOGO.TRAVEL is very respectful of the principles of responsible tourism and provides support in making donations of school supplies for children in poor countries. - SOGO.TRAVEL is a passionate team who develops with tenacity and enthusiasm, but without arrogance, a new way of travel creating. Our concept: SOGO.TRAVEL is a new website with which the traveller is free and can: Choose his destination Create his program day by day Include or not activities according to his interests Choose the location of his hotel Choose the length of his stay or tour Choose the steps by adding or removing days Make his road book half day per half day and customize it Share his journey and his experiences in a community Make the price in real time, according to his budget SOGO.TRAVEL provides all the ingredients of the travel. The travellers are free to assemble them according to their desires and tastes … like for a recipe. Our project is important because it meets the needs, desires and a new way of consumption: Customization of the trips Speed of construction (a few minutes) Freedom of the choice The marketing of our concept and its development are important to us, because today the traveller must not be a mere consumer but a free actor of his choice. He is facing traditional offers, which come from providers who impose their products, destinations and prices through their package deals. Thanks to your contributions, we will first recruit about 30 people (developers, consultants etc.). Funding: $ 700,000 will be used as a priority, to finance the recruitment (wages) of 30 peoples scheduled for development (over 12 months) and the purchase of computer workstations. Eventually, the website will be translated in most languages so that everyone in the world, will be able to build the trip of his dreams. If the goal of the funding is not reached, we will hire, probably fewer people than expected, but in all cases, it will not question the development of the project, we will just go slower. We need to recruit a lot of people because the task is significant. Indeed, each travel advisor must search, verify, validate and incorporate, in our database all the elements that build your trip (visiting monuments, museums, fun our unusual activities, etc). Searching and selecting guides, selection of restaurants, hotels, bus transfers especially for tours etc.), for each destination (countries and cities). Activities that are and will be available on our website, appear or not, depending on many criteria (date of opening and closing, seasonality, number of people, customer type (children, retired people) price according to the seasonal basis… among others. In return of your contribution, we set up a « SOGOCLUB » that, depending on your investment, will allow you, all year along, to enjoy various benefits such as discounts on travels, participation in company profits in the form of vouchers, free, cost price etc. With SOGOCLUB, we want to get together with a large community of travel enthusiasts, who can share, with other members, their experiences and knowledge, acquired during their travels. We launched our website on January 31st for the groups of more than 9 people. The site is completely free and offers 43 destinations with more than 2,500 activities to do or discover. We exhibited three times this year (Paris-Lille-Lyon) to present our concept and we came up with a significant success. Visitors have immediately understood the value of SOGO TRAVEL and begun spontaneously to use it. Now, we must develop and make it known to travellers around the world. The site is not translated in English yet and addresses mainly a French clientele but will be it in the next months. You can bring us your competition(help) also by translating in your mother tongue some 3 000 texts which makes up(composes) the site. You can already go on our site: sogo.travel, to create a (free) account and to begin to organize your journey. Thank you for being willing to make know our concept about the largest number, because numerous we are stronger. You can contribute with only 1 dollars
Posted on: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 11:10:00 +0000