Wanderlust! is one of the most used hashtags year-on-year across all social media platforms to portray the pleasure one experiences by exploring new places, culture, people, food, lifestyle and plenty of other things.India has seen a multifold rise in inflow of tourist across years, people prefer to visit India a lot due to our extremely diverse culture and mind-boggling history connected with every place. Moreover, foreigners coming from the west have a stronger currency in comparison to the rupee hence they truly get to experience a lot just for a limited budget.
On the contrary, every day we also come across news or online posts regarding scams, misconduct that foreign tourists have to face within our country may it be by the autowallas, local shops or even improper planning on their part.
The Idea.
The idea is to pair travel companions with foreigners visiting India, these companions can be college going students, housewives, people looking for part-time work, local unemployed people or anyone willing to help explore.
These companions will help tourist explore the city in a better way, give them a more local/raw experience.
How is it relevant?
Due to increased tourist inflow every year the target market is very large hence, plenty of opportunities for our business model to succeed.
Why will it work?1) Westerners love to connect to local people and absorb the cultural aura of the place they visit hence they will love to have a local person accompany them.
2) This will help tourist explore the place in a much more structured way as a local person will know the best travel routes, the fastest and most convenient ways to commute.
3) Food is an important aspect of everyone's journey, a native will know the best places to eat. Street food stalls are something that can't be searched via the internet and only the resident of that place will know about them.
Why will someone be a travel guide?
1) It will be a great learning opportunity for students or anyone willing to be a companion as they can learn a great deal about cultures of various countries, their different lifestyles, their personal opinions regarding global issues.
2) Tourists have a high paying capacity hence, it will be a good source of passive income for people being travel companions.
How is this a cheap startup?
Putting this idea in place will just require a mobile app or even a standalone website can do the job, from a business point of view, we will have to maintain a good companion base and a structured way to pair companions with tourists. The idea can be implemented in cities that are mostly visited by foreign tourists like Delhi, Mumbai, Jaipur, etc.
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