{"id":5905,"date":"2017-05-31T17:55:35","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T17:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/peer-to-peer-travel-agency-trvl-raises-2-7m-to-crowd-ify-travel-planning.html"},"modified":"2017-05-31T17:55:35","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T17:55:35","slug":"peer-to-peer-travel-agency-trvl-raises-2-7m-to-crowd-ify-travel-planning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/peer-to-peer-travel-agency-trvl-raises-2-7m-to-crowd-ify-travel-planning.html","title":{"rendered":"Peer-to-peer travel agency TRVL raises $2.7M to crowd-ify travel planning"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Through Lyft and Uber, the sharing economy has taken a charge at cabs. Airbnb is making hotels palpitate in their pants. If TRVL<\/a> has its way, it\u2019s the travel agencies\u2019 turn to tremble. Armed with 2.7 million freshly minted dollars from a conglomerate of angel investors, the company is hoping to augment services like Booking.com, Hotels.com and TripAdvisor by adding a soup\u00e7on of crowd magic.<\/p>\n

Amsterdam-based TRVL launched its product<\/a> late last year, and has been busy working on improving its service and lobbying investors. The company today announced it has closed a \u20ac2.5 million ($2.7 million) round to fuel further product development and growth.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday, when you\u2019re researching and planning a trip for yourself or the people you travel with, you\u2019re essentially doing the work of a travel agent,\u201d the company\u2019s CEO, Jochem Wijnands says. He is quick to highlight the biggest difference between you and a travel agent: \u201cYou don\u2019t get rewarded for it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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TRVL\u2019s mobile-first design means you can plan your travel on the go. Which makes sense \u2014 you\u2019re meant to be on holiday, and laptops don\u2019t belong on the beach!<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the part of the equation the company is planning to change. TRVL enables the power of the crowd to work as a travel agency. Making the booking earns the agent a commission of \u201cup to 10%\u201d on every booking made. The bookings themselves are done through more traditional booking sites such as Booking.com.<\/p>\n

\u201cThink of TRVL as TripAdvisor with an earning model,\u201d Wijnands explains. \u201cWe believe TRVL will change the way millions of people will book their trips online.\u201d<\/p>\n

The company currently employs 12 people, including some heavy hitters in the industry. The company\u2019s COO is\u00a0Arthur Hoffman, who\u2019s best known for setting up businesses for Expedia in Australia, New Zealand, Japan and India. The company\u2019s CEO Jochem Wijnands sold his previous company<\/a> to Apple, before it subsequently turned the platform into Apple News, now featured on one or two iPhones around the world.<\/p>\n

Travel continues to be a fiercely competitive space, but it\u2019s one that\u2019s been relatively untouched by the sharing economy\u2019s grubby paws so far. I\u2019m looking forward to seeing how that changes \u2014 and how TRVL is planning to sidestep regulatory challenges in the travel industry \u2014 as the company continues to gain ground.<\/p>\n

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