First of all, thank you for your comment and feedback. I appreciate it.
> But my experience is that professional, fulltime guides are much better guides within the arguments you made. Especially about deep knowledge about specific spots. What made you think otherwise?
Giving just the general knowledge of placs is less value because travelers can get information through google or Wikipedia.
What if a professor of History can be a guide, what if food blogger became a guide. These "nerd" people (positive meaning)
can be a really good guide for some travelers.
I am sure they can have deeper knowledge. Moreover, you will get as many offers as possible from locals so that you can pick up the best guide.
Moreover, we are considering that the value of guide is not only deep knowledge. The guide's profile such as personality, job background, and interests are also important.
I don't remember "Guide" but people who I met and have great conversations. We believe that it is the main value.
In terms of value proposition, generally group tour vs personal tour but narrower value proposition is pro guide vs local guide. Moreover reservation vs crowdsourcing. Nobody does crowdsourcing personal local tour guide.
> How do you train these guides? How do ensure their quality?
At the beginning, we have to define what is the quality of guides for travelers.
I don't think giving knowledge is not main quality (or value) on our website. As I said, I believe that type of guide is less value these day. We will not train guides but advise them just to be polite and on time. I would like guide to show their own knowledge and perspective and traveler will review it.
Sorry for bad writing. I have to code
Thank you again for your comment.
> How do you make money?
We will take a commission model like Airbnb.
> What prevents the local contact travelers privately, bypassing your platform?
We will scan the part of messages such as URL and Email not to navigate the other URL.
However, reviews and tour guide records are more important to get reliability and customers for them. If they navigate to their own website or contact privately, they can not use review system which means they have not done any tour guide previously. Obviously, we need to consider more the way to prevent the situation like this.
> But my experience is that professional, fulltime guides are much better guides within the arguments you made. Especially about deep knowledge about specific spots. What made you think otherwise?
Giving just the general knowledge of placs is less value because travelers can get information through google or Wikipedia.
What if a professor of History can be a guide, what if food blogger became a guide. These "nerd" people (positive meaning) can be a really good guide for some travelers.
I am sure they can have deeper knowledge. Moreover, you will get as many offers as possible from locals so that you can pick up the best guide.
Moreover, we are considering that the value of guide is not only deep knowledge. The guide's profile such as personality, job background, and interests are also important.
I don't remember "Guide" but people who I met and have great conversations. We believe that it is the main value.
In terms of value proposition, generally group tour vs personal tour but narrower value proposition is pro guide vs local guide. Moreover reservation vs crowdsourcing. Nobody does crowdsourcing personal local tour guide.
> How do you train these guides? How do ensure their quality?
At the beginning, we have to define what is the quality of guides for travelers.
I don't think giving knowledge is not main quality (or value) on our website. As I said, I believe that type of guide is less value these day. We will not train guides but advise them just to be polite and on time. I would like guide to show their own knowledge and perspective and traveler will review it.
Sorry for bad writing. I have to code Thank you again for your comment.