Have you ever been in a situation where you discovered your favorite snack while traveling overseas and wish if you’d be able to find it at home? Or perhaps you saw a foreign TV program in which the main protagonist wore a very cool shirt to only learn that it was only sold in the country where the program was shot?
Now think about another situation where you are about to travel a foreign country for a first time and will spend a week to explore the foreign land. You have been googling for interesting places to visit, searching for hotels and rooms, discounted flight tickets, restaurants and eateries, and perhaps counting the days until your departure date. The abundance of the information can help you arrange your itinerary better but it can also be overwhelming to go through all the recommendations. You wish you can choose places and activities that will make your trip insanely memorable without doing too much legwork.
Suddenly, you realize, distance can be a serious barrier to accomplish things.
What if we can simplify things? What if we can have someone help bring the favorite snack home? What if someone, a local person, takes us to explore the foreign land and bring that pleasant surprise we desire? And what if our journey across the distance can be planned and done with confidence?
Imagine a place where we can ask people, let’s say the travelers, to help bring our favorite snack home. In the same place, we can also plan the activity for our next trip day-by-day. It also helps us book the flight and hotel, notify the flight schedule and daily itinerary, and get us the local expert. It goes further to let us recover part of the travel expense when we assist in buying items for others or rent out our unused luggage.
We are not always happy with the idea of distance because it presents us with additional cost. If we can reduce this cost while at the same time grabbing the opportunity that is created because of the existence of the distance, we may look at distance from a more positive vibe.
And here is Turis, the place where distance is simplified.