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Ian
Founder, Travel Massive
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Member for 10 Years
Joined December 2014
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About me

Currently building the Travel Massive community platform — you're using it now 😀


A recent interview with me and David Barrett on TravelDailyNews Asia: www.traveldailynews.asia/column/interviews/travel-massive-the-global-connection-founded-by-ian-cumming/

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 (current)

What is your favorite travel destination?

East Coast, Tasmania

Where do you dream of traveling to?

East Africa

What was your first travel job?

I wrote a booking engine for a small airline.

What do you want to learn more about?

The most remote places in the world

Three words that describe why we should travel?

Travel with purpose

Comments

  • Take a look at some notes from our Travel Massive event with OpenAI in London earlier this month — there's a few relevant points to your questions. https://www.travelmassive.com/posts/ai-in-travel-and-tourism-419667227

  • Hi Dale, thanks for sharing Journey Pal with the Travel Massive community. Congrats on what you have created and for developing a travel tool for your own needs and sharing it with other travellers! I often take a quick look at the Wikipedia of a new ... show more

  • Hi Tobias, thanks for sharing Swaphouse with the Travel Massive community! The site looks great, and nicely designed UX, well done! A few quick questions: 1. What are your future plans for Swaphouse? Where do you see the most growth? 2. What is your... show more

  • Hi everyone, I am excited to share that I will be visiting Ljubljana this week (all the way from Tasmania) for the first time. I will be attending the Travel Massive meetup tomorrow (Thursday) at Tektonik Kraft Pivovarna organised by @rudi-medved. Link... show more

  • Hi Philip, thanks for inviting me to the MVP and well done on what you've created! The answer to your question depends on whether your product is a "vitamin" or a "painkiller" (stealing someone else's saying!) If people need your product to solve a cr... show more

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