For a physical travelling agency, their main selling point is offering a travelling package for customer to join. The travelling route is fixed and mostly operated in groups. They have physical locations and professional tour guides. However, the cost might be much higher compared to us. For Travelholic, as a virtual tour platform, we offer a flexible travelling experience for customer with lower price and individually. 

 

2. Trip.com

Trip.com Group Limited is an online travelling company which provides hotel booking, flight booking services as well as packaged tours. Customer can choose a service that want such as buying a ticket or booking a room. Compared to Travelholic, we provide a post service such as going to a place such that the customer cannot access to that place individually due to pandemic crisis.

 

(1) People who are busy at work and lack sufficient travel time. By using Travelpad services, it can help them save time on the road, so as to spend the limited time on their favorite tours.

(2) Those who cannot afford high travel costs. Relying on Travelpad shared online travel service, the cost of travel can be shared by multiple people, thereby reducing service fees.

(3) People who are worried about the safety of the journey and loneliness. Travelpad can find friends with common travel interests and provide opportunities to make new friends. Also, guided tours by professionals will reduce the possibility of safety accidents for the customers themselves.

(4) The elderly who pay attention to "slow travel" and health preservation. The elderly have limited physical energy and their travel is mainly "slow travel" and leisure vacations. Therefore, Travelpad specializes in providing cultural and museum relics, medical tourism, and elderly health services.

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Creating accounts on major social media is the responsibility of specialized managers. Send some topics and videos about the service characteristics of your company according to the time period. Facebook, Twitter and micro-blog, for example. Let more people know our company by actively sending messages on the platform. At the same time, in the first year, the number of fans in a large number of accounts advertising. The number of registered users is used to divide the account owners. At the same time, it can also carry out the old user sharing system. Old users can get a certain degree of reward whenever they recommend a new user. Use these methods together to increase the number of users as soon as possible.

Member in Travelpad should be the best promoter to get Travelpad being popular. Member referral program can attract member to invite their friends or family members to join us. If they have successfully referred a member joining us, both of them may get extra credits for which they can spend in Travelpad tour.