Travis is connecting curious travellers by integrating tools that make travel planning a breeze.
1. What problem is Travis solving?
Travel planning is hard. You find yourself switching between travel inspiration on social media, chat groups with friends, Google tabs, Google maps, and Google sheets to make your trip (near and far) happen!
The travel industry has become increasingly fragmented over the last few decades because the internet drove digitisation of point solutions — information, search, bookings. Social media has also changed how millennials and Gen Zs share and get trusted travel inspiration from peers, digital creators and communities, influencing bookings.
As a traveller, there’s no simple way to bring together my social travel inspiration, with tools that help me plan, book, and make the trip happen. Travis brings this together in one place.
2. What’s the best piece of advice you’ve received since starting Travis?
Remove the emotion — just do it.
Things can get overwhelming. Whether you’re second guessing yourself or having a low morale day, much of this is emotion at play. So we were told to act more “mechanically” to get the job done. And this helps manage what could otherwise be rollercoaster emotions.
3. What’s the biggest obstacle you’ve had to overcome, and how have you managed to do that?
Backing yourself and your team that what you’re doing is “right”.
As a startup, you are trying to move your fastest with very limited resources through many ambiguous, changing situations.
As a team we’re becoming more comfortable with this by acknowledging that this is status quo, and treating what we do as a series of experiments with clearer objectives, feedback and learnings.
