On this episode of the Crypto Coin Show, I’ll overview the CoolCousin ICO, A tourism platform shaking up the holidays with a twist on travel agencies built for the new age traveller. Finding good travel info can be difficult and avoiding biased opinions can also hard through the web, but with cool cousin you can find local “cousins” whove lived in the area for a long time and are willing to provide their knowledge and experience first hand.
Information overload and biased content in the centralized travel market has made it hard for tourists to find relevant info. CoolCousins has built their platform from the community up, so travellers get on demand city guidance that matches their style and needs directly from like minded locals.
Cousins are like a refined version of travel agents, just as airbnb hosts are to hotel clerks. Using CoolCousins people can get travel and tourist information from local experts who want to provide the help for the timing or their visits, where to stay and what places you can’t miss while in their city. The unbiased nature of the service ensures trustworthy information is safeguarded by blockchain technology, limiting the company’s ability to make commercial decisions compromises the authenticity of the platform.
CoolCousin was launched in 2016 and is already used by over 500,000 travellers worldwide. It is well on its way to becoming a decentralized travel agency for the new age travellers. By the end of 2017 they had their web app launched in over 65 countries with over a thousand Cousins guiding platform participants. As for the roadmap, they are planning on launching the sample wallet in Q3 of 2018, Cool Cousin 4.0 by 2019, and Mass adoption by 2020.
There is double digit growth month over month and coolcousins seems positioned to become a major player in the travel industry, which is generating $2.3 trillion dollars a year. CoolCousins has been dubbed an up and coming travel service by the NYTimes, LA Times, The Guardian and National Geographic as a must app for travellers.
The 17 person team at CoolCousin include CEO Itay Nagler, who has a track record of turning ideas into products that adopt millions of users. The CTO Gil Azrielant is a blockchain developer, early ethereum enthusiast and cyber warfare officer at the Israeli defence force. The CMO Nadav Saadia is a marketing strategist who led millin dollar campaigns for Procter and Gamble and HBO, Shachar cotani is the Chief Product officer and has been responsible for international digital products and campaigns, and Itamar weizman is the COO and founded israels largest every grassroots political campaign by the age of 22. As for the CoolCousin Board of Advisors, Pete Hancock was the former head of national sales at yelp, Asaf Shavit, whos the co-founder at digital asset partners, among other advisors.
The CoolCousin platform is used by CUZ cryptocurrency tokens and a blockchain peer to peer transaction network on top of Ethereum. The platform will include diverse and affordable premium services so cousins can be paid appropriate for their services, directly from.
CoolCousin is having a tokensale of their CUZ tokens for their platform, so let’s break down the ICO details. Out of a total supply of 300 million tokens, 33% are allocated to the ico, 25% are for the community incentives and platform growth, 24% is for future operations, 10% is for the team, and 8* is for advisors, early supporters, and for bounty. The soft cap for the ICO is 4000 Ether and the hard cap is 17,500 Ether, where 1 ether gets 3770 Cuz tokens. The Whitelist is available now for the ICO and more information is available on www.coolcousin.com.
If you go travelling, wouldn’t you want to meet the local cousins who have lived in the area for many years giving you first hand knowledge to make your travelling more enjoyable? Let me know in the comments down below.
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