TripSay is a service for passionate travelers who want to get travel tips and recommendations from friends and like-minded travelers and also share their own with others. It’s about creating a network of trusted travelers sharing your taste and receiving new tips and recommendations from them.

TripSay is a community where you can easily keep track of where your friends and people with similar taste travel and get their insight on those places. At the same time it is also perhaps the most extensive database of destination information collected all over the Internet and put onto a map on a very detailed level.

What’s the problem with the current travel planning experience?

The web is full of information – too full we believe. In fact, the amount of information is so huge that finding quality information is very difficult, time consuming and frustrating. Sure, you can google it and get some good hits but they are the most popular, not perhaps the best ones to your liking. That means you need to use a lot of time to find all you need. Then you need to find all the places on a map relative to your hotel, road trip route, public transport hubs and so on. All this requires you to use several services and a lot of time.

When it comes to user reviews the problem is that how do you know if someone’s review is of interest to you at all? It could well be that the review is from someone who’s completely different from you and values different things while traveling so that his five stars can totally misguide you. This means that you need to read a lot of reviews and still you might not get a proper picture. At least it takes a lot of time and nerves.

What’s the benefit?

As a TripSay user you are profiled extensively by the way you use the service, all the time. With TripSay you get only the information that is the most relevant to you as you get it through your network of trusted travelers that you have hand picked yourself. We have also collected hundreds of thousands of places onto a map as well as quality information on them all over the Internet. All this is also recommended to you by your trusted network. Thus you get the best possible information, save time and nerves and can complete the whole planning process using just one service.

How’s it all done?

TripSay has collected over 260 000 destinations, cities, sights, mountain peaks, even metro stations from the web and placed them all on a map for easy discovery. For all these places we collect tips from our users and the best travel content all around the internet. What that gives you is a service with the broadest offering of travel related information available on the web, all available at one source.

On top of this we analyze your behavior and activity in the service to understand what interests you. We do that so that you’d find the most interesting content first in our extremely extensive database. Very much the same way as Amazon does with books: people how liked the same places/sights/things as you also liked this place so you probably should check it out.

What’s the difference?

• Many travel sites rely only on their own content, we offer categorized quality content from several sources. As a traveler you want information and other travelers’ opinions on destinations you are going to. For this you typically use a search engine and have to browse through several sites to find the information you are looking for: edited reviews, maps, user tips. There’s missing a service that combines these different resources into a single and simple to use service.
• Travel sites today offer the same content for all visitors. We don’t. A retired couple is likely interested in different things in a vacation than a group of college students. So why should they see the same content? Based on your profile we can recommend you the best information on each destination.
• Most sites concentrate on largest cities and a few key sights and/or hotels within it. We offer you a better and more detailed selection of interesting information. Currently we have over 260 000 destinations, sights, etc in our database, all placed on a map. Our destinations are not only large cities like New York or London but we also include the thousands of smaller sights and places that are not provided by other travel sites.
• Most sites are cluttered with text and generally are not very user friendly. We offer a simple and intuitive map based user interface. Destinations are shown on a map so that you can see where all the interesting places are related to each other. We prioritize information that is most likely of relevance to you, we do not just show you the whole of web and expect you to sort it out yourself.