Travelsharper

Travelsharper: a curated step by step travel guide to off beat destinations

You have design acumen and will help us create an inviting, easy to read mobile friendly template for our content.

This is a unique opportunity to work with a NY based father and son team that has extensive travel experience in several interesting venues in the world. There is work continuation as we upgrade and optimize the content in the next several months.

In addition to your design and development skills, you are able to communicate clearly in written English and pay attention to details.

Travelsharper.com aims to become a destination for discerning travelers who are looking for a step-by-step itinerary for 3-5 day getaways in interesting, less traveled venues in the Americas, Europe and Asia. It is the antidote against the travel aggregators like Tripadvisor or Kayak that sell leads. Travelsharper emphasizes cultural sensitivities (e.g.
Never toast with beer in Budapest, Hungary for this is what the Austrians did when they hung Hungarian rebel nationalists in the 1840s), list and links to top 10 restaurants & hotels, cultural, sport and parks recommendations (with links to book in advance) and curated day by day activities.

As a premium publisher, Travelsharper.com will first build its audience by invitation only (up to 5,000 registered users, mostly in the ny, la and chi metro areas), then will provide a free and a premium access to a wider target audience. The revenue model is paid subscription, select branded advertisers (airlines, hotel chains, insurance products, high end automotive), and in a later phase, lead generation.

Travelsharper Audience — 25-60 year old single or couple travelers. $100K+ income/year. Time sensitive (willing to pay for good information and shortcuts).
Urban based. Spending $5K+ a year on leisure travel.


    * Website Objectives — The primary objective of the website is to provide an easy to navigate, easy to use content depository of blog like descriptions of travel venues. Desktop access at first: 4 day getaway in Budapest with rich media (pictures, videos, links), then once on site in Budapest, a compressed, fast load mobile access to specific content. The advertisement will be native no pop ups nor intrusive banners.

    * Functionality Requirements — easy to write blog template, drop down menu, smart key word tagging, links, attribution for leads, smart queries/cataloguing, UX generated content, video feeds
    * Has to be able to import content from Google Docs and Google Pix
Ecommerce Details — None.

Content production schedule:

    1. Visuals - pictures, videos, graphics
    2. Text
    3.
Travel Affiliates operator agreements
        1. Expedia
        2. Booking
        3.
Kayak
        4. Airlines directly
        5. Hotel Chains directly


Key word search
Optimization
Photo collection gallery
Testimonials
Advertizing

Destination Landing Pages - DLP Table of contents:
North America:
St Andrews by the Sea
La Malbaie Tadoussac Parc du Bic
Georgeville Memphremamgog
Montreal Quebec Ville
Niagara on the Lake
Cape Vincent
Canmore Banff
Kicking Horse Okanagan
Vancouver Gonzaga Island
Charleston, NC

Boothbay Harbor
Acadia National Park
Portland (ferry to Yarmouth)

New York City
Hudson Valley Ccld Spring Bear Mountain Breakneckridge Piermont Walkway on the Hudson Cornwall Inn
Sandy Hook
Upper Delaware River Valley
Montauk

Washington DC
Autotrain coastal
Charleston Savannah

Florida Keys

Cuba
Costa Rica Rio Celeste Tamarindo
Colombia Cartagena
Brazil the Tio trip
Mexico
Chile Patagonia
Peru
Ecuador

Africa
Morocco

Asia
Vietnam
Philippines
Homg Kong
Japan

Europe
Belgium
Knokke Zoute
Bruges
Namur Denee

France
Paris
Honfleur Mont St Michel
Arcachon
Bordeaux
Perigord
Carcassonne
Gorges du Verdon
Vallee des Merveilles
Eze Villefranche MC la Turbie
Corse
Bouches du Rhone Camargue

Spain
Ronda
Bilbao Azur Mendi San Sebastian
Barcelona Sitges
Cantabria

Italy
Venice
Rome
Florence Tuscany

Slovenia

Hungary

CR

Romania
Bucarest
Brasov

UK
London
Bath
Wales