Traveling is no longer a fad but a need that lets people move beyond the comforts of their cities and learn some things they didn't know existed. But the more people discover how to map out their trips, the less special places become. They hoard to top destinations, add to the crowd, pollute at some point, and learn things they can relate with other travelers who have been to the same destination that they have been. Everyone else has seen the same place-- too common that nothing makes Chianti, or the Taj Mahal, or the Singapore Merlion extraordinary. But that's the real point of traveling, I guess. People travel and encourage other people to travel so that there is a way for amazing and unexpected stories to come out. Otherwise these tourist attractions will not be accounted for what makes them the most frequented destinations on earth, or for the wonders of the world to not be justified for being called a wonder.
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Each person who travels has the right to every excitement she can feel at the prospect of boarding in the plane, or having to speak a foreign word or two to a local. As traveling will open the best and worst of experiences, everyone of us will always have that distinctive way with words of telling our travel stories to others-- because we'll have somehow different points of view about our experiences. And that's when sharing travel tips becomes even more fun and reliable.
Most importantly today, we are offered with so many options from where we can collect information or a guide for our travel. Odds are these pieces of information go outdated overtime or get lost along the way. But that's when TripGems become one good solution.
What is TripGems?
TripGems is where you can get all travel tips in on place-- ask your friends, build your own timeline, and get deals on your next destination. It was launched last June 1 this year by travel enthusiasts from Amsterdam. Their goal is to bring as many travelers together and use this collective travel wisdom to give you the best tips for your destination. You give one tip and you receive a thousand of others. The good thing is that the more travelers ask or give tips, the greater the possibility that fresh travel inputs are updated and shared.
They have been selected for Web Summit 2013-- a tech conference in Dublin, and was nominated for the Accenture Nomination Awards 2013 under the 'new concepts' category. You can like, tweet, or share their submission to vote.
What else can you get from TripGems?
Recently, they have added new features to the platform and raised seed capital that allows to put their developer on it 24/ 7. You can add photos to your travel tips and pin them to your own map and see how many percent you have seen of the world through a BETA travel timeline.
Soon they are putting up more updates like travel status, notifications, follow possibilities, and new features to allow you to find travel deals, create your travel map, tag your friends, or access them on your mobiles.
You have something worth to share. Be a traveler.
