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Headout — HotelTonight for tours, activities & experiences.
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@varun very cool! Would you consider expanding the walking tour category to include running and biking? Maybe "active tours"?
@TeecycleTim Hey! Absolutely, without a doubt. I personally would love some more biking experiences in there. Working on adding more of them everyday. Thanks for checking it out.
@varunkhona awesome! You can find NYC running tours in Peek http://www.peek.com/activity-p13... I'm a guide for City Running Tours in Milwaukee but help with social media for all cities. Let me know if you need help with cross promotion!
@acondurache Thanks for checking us out.
Vayable is actually one the smaller players in this space (even though they have been around for a while). The reason is pretty simple. Travelers do not book local experiences in advance as supply is indeterminate and pricing is inelastic.
Tourlandish exclusively focuses on experiences that are available and ready to be booked for the next 24 hours only. This focus has resulted in us having the maximum last minute inventory (116 experiences available in NYC for today vs only 3 on Vayable), elastic pricing (we empower our suppliers to manage their yield) and the most seamless mobile experience (3x faster discovery & checkout).
At a higher level, the difference is similar to what HotelTonight brings on the table versus Expedia/Booking.com etc. The only difference is unlike hotels, the majority tours & activities are booked on the same day.
Hope this gives some perspective.
Hey guys, excited to be here on PH! Thanks for the love @kwdinc
We have built the best way for travelers to experience a new city on-demand in 3 simple taps. Some key things that I would like to share with the community at large:
1. Almost all local experiences are bought in the 0-24 hour window when folks are already in the destination (unlike flights/hotels/packages). The existing online aggregators simply do not have available inventory during this period to be able to sell due to lack of live connectivity with the supplier.
2. Our pricing is better across the board as we get exclusive deals to move unsold inventory as quickly as possible.
3. The entire experience on Tourlandish from discovery to payment to mobile vouchers is 3x faster so you spend less time on the app and more time enjoying the place.
Would love to hear your thoughts. Hit me up at varun@tourlandish.com. Cheers!
Great concept!
Going through the initial flow, one of the first questions that struck me was, "These things look interesting. What do other people have to say?" I couldn't immediately find a review section — it seems unfortunate to leave the app and check out reviews elsewhere. Could be cool to integrate the Yelp API in the short term.
@extremelyn Hey! Thanks for checking out the app. I completely agree, reviews is a big part of the discovery puzzle. We have done a static implementation of Tripadvisor reviews for selected experiences for now. The API integration is right up on the priority list. Appreciate you letting us know :)
@varunkhona Awesome, I'm excited to see how it evolves! Reviews are the only missing piece — everything else seems well considered, and easy to use.
Best of luck!
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