Currently building the Travel Massive community platform — you're using it now 😀
Fun stuff I've been involved in:
🌎 Built the world's first search engine for ocean research datasets (2005)
✈️ Developed Airlines of Tasmania's first online reservation system (2006)
💬 Launched World Nomads' "Ask A Nomad" Q&A Community (2009-2011)
🤑 Launched Australia's first flight deals website "GetFlight" (2011-2012)
👶 Investor in TinyBeans.com family photo sharing app which floated on ASX (2014)
🇨🇳 Built Jambo — a crowdsourced interpreter network, trialed MVP in China (2014)
🔥 Investor in Firechat (mesh chat app) — until the CEO disappeared! 🙃 (2019)
📱 Investor in SkyHi — the world's first subscription flight service (2019-2021)
💡 Founding team of the Social Entrepreneurship in Tourism Competition (2019-now)
🥾 CTO of MappyHour.org — a community for outdoor enthusiasts in the US (2016-2025)
East Coast, Tasmania
East Africa
I wrote a booking engine for a small airline.
The most remote places in the world
Travel with purpose
As some of you might know, I develop and maintain the Travel Massive platform (that you're using right now) that helps everyone connect and publish their projects in our community. It's a huge project as you might imagine! This year I'd like to impleme... show more
Hi Shivam, Thanks for sharing Map Your Voyage and welcome to the Travel Massive community. The explainer video is very helpful and I encourage anyone else interested in your idea to watch the video. Is there a simpler way to share the videos (e.g. sh... show more
Trove Tourism Development Advisors and Adara recently released a report on the 2026 US Outbound Market for Destination Marketers. The report draws from data across Adara's partner network and highlights recent shifts in US outbound travel intent into 2... show more
Thanks Leonid for the update from Moscow Travel Massive and it's great to see our community connecting across so many verticals of travel in the region. Thanks to your organization of the chapter, and to NEMO for sponsoring — I'm looking forward to my n... show more
Thanks Fuad for the updates from Cape Town Travel Massive and thanks to Shelton, Sara and the team from Ristorante Liguria and sponsors for supporting and hosting our community. A warm welcome to our new members as well! Wishing everyone a great year ah... show more