MeetnGreetMe — Personalizing Your Travel Experience Join Travel Revolution Now

Abstract

MeetnGreetMe was designed to make travel experience a really personalized experience around the world and help travelers save their valuable time while outsourcing travel related tasks to dedicated and trustworthy local people.

This paper describes the crowdsourced travel concierge service and lifestyle management ecosystem where everyone can find support they need before and/or during their trip as well as contribute with their skills to building an absolutely new concept of travel and hospitality.

It explains benefits of the blockchain technology for MeetnGreetMe platform development, such as token based incentives to encourage and sustain mutually beneficial relations between major players and create environment for decentralized operations, a blockchain-based payment system, utilizing smart contracts for transparent and timely execution of agreements and includes terms of crowdsale campaign to bring a vision into life.

MeetnGreetMe marketplace has been operating for more than a year so it had time to prove that smart decentralization is the only way to develop a peer-to-peer marketplace keeping a rational balance between input and output in terms of limited resources.

Issue of token which provides its holder with the rights to participate in the business development and get returns on the efforts, turns such token holder into a motivated community member. All together such members become a driven force for turning new things into the mainstream and supporting and spreading new culture.

Though the total decentralization is an open question yet, the analysis of the MeetnGreetMe platform performance emphasises that the decentralization of some crucial directions is inevitable for further development of such network-based platform as MeetnGreetMe.

What is MeetnGreetMe?

MeetnGreetMe is a crowdsourced travel concierge service and lifestyle management ecosystem where every traveler can request services tailored to their travel needs and budget. Delivered by resourceful local people and paid via blockchain enabled P2P payment system.

Do you need help with organizing a bachelor party abroad? Or you want someone trustworthy to meet your parents at the airport, help with luggage and support all the way during their stay in a new city? Or perhaps you need someone to help you book the hottest night spots and guide you through the night life of the city?

MeetnGreetMe is designed to deliver customer-centric service tailored to travelers’ needs and make travel experience a really personalized experience around the world. This is the core value all the interactions are built around.

MeetnGreetMe platform provides an infrastructure for the value creation and enables value exchange between participants, sets the rules of access and usage to ensure that desirable interactions are encouraged and undesirable ones are totally eliminated.

Mission

The MeetnGreetMe mission is to let everyone access all the benefits of personalized approach to their travel needs while supporting local businesses and communities to market their services and products at fair costs.

Recognizing that our life as international travelers can be more comfortable, easier and enjoyable should we knew trustworthy people in a visited city, we have started to develop a new concept of personal travel concierge service which is delivered by local people to world travelers and hence can be afforded by anyone who needs it. Basing it on trust, friendship, fun and hospitality we are building a global community of like-minded people who are happy to share their hospitality, local expertise and knowledge with travelers.

Vision

We aim at revolutionizing travel and hospitality industry via turning it into a crowdsourced ecosystem with decentralized elements where every member is incentivized to contribute with their time, skills, local expertise and resources to the MeetnGreetMe ultimate goal — help people from around the world travel carefree, enjoy personalized approach to their travel needs and savour authentic experiences wherever they are.

We see MeetnGreetMe as a community driven marketplace where all the parties will find an opportunity for self-expression and -enhancement through helping others and eventually will be rewarded by the community. Moreover, the background diversification of MeetnGreetMe community members will help to bring the blockchain technology to masses and popularize it among people around the world.

Advanced analytics and machine learning which will be later integrated will allow us to produce offers based on our customers’ behavior and radically change a way people approach the process of planning and arranging their travel related tasks and activities.

Problem

Today travel can be intimidating, time consuming and very impersonal experience. Regardless the numerous applications that have been designed to change our travel experience we are still sharing many of the same travel challenges.

Foreign language, different culture and business ethics, insecurity, irrelevant information and fake reviews, overpaying for services, need for a local’s advice on what to do, see and enjoy in the place of destination, not understanding how things work there are just some to mention. Done incorrectly it robs travelers their time, energy and money.

It’s no longer enough to book a flight and accommodation online. We want to get more while keeping our life-time balance:

We need to know we will be safe and welcome;
We want unique and authentic experiences;
We want personalized approach to our travel needs;
We want to make sure we will reach our travel goal;
We want someone trustworthy and available when we need them;
We value flexibility;
We seek value for money.

The existing concept of concierge service is pretty conservative, expensive and with different entrance barriers. The truth is that everything we need, as world travelers, to make our experience a positive experience, can be achieved by connecting travelers with trustworthy and like-minded local people.

MeetnGreetMe services

From meeting upon arrival or accompanying during the stay to helping with organizing your life events or finding business contacts in a visited city, local MeetnGreeters are stuffed to deliver a wide range of tailor-made services to help international travelers to reach their travel goals and save time for things that matter.

Arrival/Staying

Accompany during stay
Rent a car
Organize/Assist with events
Accompany to events
Drive to destinations
Book a hotel/apartments
Meet upon arrival
Interpret/Translate
Information on the local infrastructure and transport
Help with shopping

Entertainment

Information on culture, lifestyle and traditions
Book/buy tickets to events/sports games
Arrange travel tours to local attractions
Arrange a gastronomic tour
Personal city guiding
Nightlife hot spots guiding
Plan a trip
Charter a yacht, helicopter, etc.
Other request unique to the place of stay
Visit a party hosted by locals

Day-to-day issues

Assist with banking and money matters
Book personal care and services
Arrange a repair or an engineer visit
24h information support
Make telephone calls
Find contacts
Buy flowers
Gift delivery

Business matters

Perform Internet research
Book a restaurant/make a recommendation
Perform personalized shopping and delivery
Provide business referral service
Take photos at events
Advice on business etiquette

Health/Fitness

Request health insurance
Arrange visits to doctors
Accompany to doctors
Sick care
Arrange sports activities

MeetnGreetMe ecosystem

Interactions

MeetnGreetMe has been started as a peer-to-peer marketplace around a single core value — creation and transfer of personalized travel concierge services between peers.

After it was launched people with different skills and initiatives from around the world started to join the platform to contribute to its growth. Today MeetnGreetMe is a community -centric and -driven business and anyone is welcome to participate in accordance with their interests — as a MeetnGreeter, ambassador, author or co-creator, photographer etc.

WelcomeCoin

To make it possible to reward all the MeetnGreetMe players for their contribution, not just MeetnGreeters, own crypto currency is introduced — WelcomeCoin. A share of WelcomeCoins is reserved to keep contributors’ initiatives going and hence fuel MeetnGreetMe growth.

WelcomeСoin makes it possible to incentivize MeetnGreetMe users to play different roles while all together contribute to the ecosystem development and accelerate the growth of the MeetnGreetMe platform around the world.