The internet of things has brought the world into a revolution which has greatly reduced distances. Now travellers can travel all around the world in the comfort of their homes. Better still they can get a glimpse of where the wish to visit through the popular travel agents online, giving them advises on interesting places or spots, events or activities happening where they proposed to visit.

But the different travel agents we have online today have been seen to have several disadvantages. One of the major disadvantage is about the quality of information displayed on their websites. Places which are not worth visiting are being made to look as though they are worth it - what an irony. People now prefer to ask about places they are visiting from someone they know (friends) other than visiting these websites for information because of false information. People who access these travel agent websites pay a huge amount of money only to get a substandard or uninteresting information about where they intend to visit. People need informants (locals) that are likeminded in the city they intend to visit to give them accurate information and advise about interesting places or spots, events and activities which they can visit or attend.

Cool cousin

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Cool Cousin is VC-backed decentralized travel agency optimized for Millennial and Gen Z travelers. Launched in 2016, Cool Cousin lets travelers easily upgrade their trips while giving locals the platform to earn from their city knowledge. With double-digit monthly growth, 500K+ users and over 1,000 local influencers in 80 cities around the world, Cool Cousin is emerging as an autonomous community that scales organically powered by a sharing economy on the blockchain.

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Cool cousin uses smart contracts to secure and guarantee authentic exchange of high quality information between travellers or tourists and like-minded locals (cousins) all around the globe (literally in all city worth visiting). This is with the aim of improving travelling experience. Cool cousin creates a platform to connect locals or cousins (as they are known on the platform) and travellers to exchange quality intels. This helps to lower the cost of getting such information from travel agents which might not be very accurate. It also gives the locals the opportunity to earn from the knowledge of interesting places or spots around them. The platform helps to create friends with locals in every city one wish to visit. Having someone who knows or understands your taste enough to direct or advise you on places to visit in a strange city, will save a lot of stress and make a trip enjoyable.

Cool cousin app

Cool cousin creates a mobile application to this effect. On the application, travellers can select a destination, then find a cousin using different filters like age, sex, bio, categories and reach, to determine the most suitable cousin who may just understand what the travellers tastes. When a cousin is selected, a detailed guide of the cousin can be seen online or offline. A traveller can select from the list of spots to visit and get personal recommendation or advise from the cousin.

Cool cousin opens a new level of networking and connecting people from different backgrounds with the same likes. Socializing and friendship just got better. Everyone wants a friend who is like-minded especially from another country.

Earning

Cousins earn for creating and updating a digital profile which includes information about places in the city they are which is accessible to travellers to check. Cousins earn for answering travellers questions and for approving new cousins. The platform is fashioned in such a way that travellers can tip cousins for the information they provide.

Travellers can get free information from the platform or pay in token (CUZ) for an extra layer or depth of information.

Quality Assurance

It is easy to post just anything on the internet by the cousins but this will make the platform no better than the existing which it esist to correct. But cool cousin is different from the existing platform by content quality checks, done by the community. When a cousin adds a new spot, to their map, other cousins or the community members checks and approves or vote. If the added spot is deemed fit for a visit, when it gathers four upvotes, it is approved and the cousin is paid in CUZ. If a cousin added three spots which is rejected by the community, the community then votes on the continuation of the cousin as a member.

Token sale

The cool cousin token is on high demand, you can reserve your space here the presale with 50% bonus starts on April 10th, 2018.

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