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by the way, this made me think of another idea. Vacation Discovery....like StumbleUpon, but shows awesome places you can go within a certain budget.. maybe ca

by the way, this made me think of another idea. Vacation Discovery....like StumbleUpon, but shows awesome places you can go within a certain budget.. maybe categories "Castles" "East Asia" "Tropical" "Waterfalls" "Jungles" "Deserts" It would have to be: 1) Very picture-oriented, so you can fantasize and browse (escapism) 2) Able to filter by price easily, and include airfare Good business model, fun to use, win win win.

zackattack 15y ago
I guess the question is Cost of Customer Acquisition going to be cheaper LTV? I wonder what the economics of travel commissions are... If you get 5% of whatever it costs to book a vacation... and people are booking $1000 vacations ... that's $50. And assume that 1% of visitors who visit the site end up using us to book a vacation thats 50 cents a user. And I think you can target YUPpies on Facebook for around that Of course, if the product's design is really compelling (crucial), it will be social/viral, people will use it when they're bored.
- nl 15y ago
  The affiliate market for travel is very active and pays pretty well, BTW. Commission rates depend on exactly what part of the travel industry you are going for. Hotels pay ~7%, coach holidays pay ~4%, car hire can go as low as 2%.
cemregr 15y ago
This exact thing does exist. Different vacation types, different destinations.. All covered. Gave you hotel and airfare prices. Was quite thorough although was a flash app. Don't remember the name of the site though. Adioso.com?
- zackattack 15y ago
  Hmm... it's not adioso. If you think about it could you come back to this thread and let me know?
revorad 15y ago
YC-funded http://adioso.com http://adioso.com already does something like this. Don't know how successful they are.
- zackattack 15y ago
  It's somewhat different, but I always thought they had a neat idea and product! I love NLP
malyk 15y ago
Wanderfly seems to do this pretty well. http://www.wanderfly.com/ http://www.wanderfly.com/

zackattack 15y ago

I guess the question is Cost of Customer Acquisition going to be cheaper LTV? I wonder what the economics of travel commissions are... If you get 5% of whatever it costs to book a vacation... and people are booking $1000 vacations ... that's $50. And assume that 1% of visitors who visit the site end up using us to book a vacation thats 50 cents a user. And I think you can target YUPpies on Facebook for around that Of course, if the product's design is really compelling (crucial), it will be social/viral, people will use it when they're bored.

nl 15y ago
The affiliate market for travel is very active and pays pretty well, BTW. Commission rates depend on exactly what part of the travel industry you are going for. Hotels pay ~7%, coach holidays pay ~4%, car hire can go as low as 2%.

cemregr 15y ago

This exact thing does exist. Different vacation types, different destinations.. All covered. Gave you hotel and airfare prices. Was quite thorough although was a flash app. Don't remember the name of the site though. Adioso.com?

zackattack 15y ago
Hmm... it's not adioso. If you think about it could you come back to this thread and let me know?

revorad 15y ago

YC-funded http://adioso.com http://adioso.com already does something like this. Don't know how successful they are.

zackattack 15y ago
It's somewhat different, but I always thought they had a neat idea and product! I love NLP

malyk 15y ago

Wanderfly seems to do this pretty well. http://www.wanderfly.com/ http://www.wanderfly.com/