The consensus on the question I posted before seems to be that it's okay to encourage travel, but that we need to encourage traveling BETTER, whether that means encouraging choosing trains over planes, taking longer trips, seeing things in a different way, etc.
My question now is HOW? How do I as a content creator do that? I mean, just lecturing people about sustainability or whatever isn't going to help. I'd love some PRACTICAL ideas on how to encourage better travel.
So far I'm trying - not always succeeding - to avoid writing about the places that are very popular and instead focusing on lesser-traveled places. I'm avoiding big general listicles and instead trying to write about much narrower topics. As much as possible, I'm traveling by train or bus rather than plane and that'll come through when I write about a place. Any other suggestions?
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I have created a Vacation Rental platform — www.beitibeitak.com — targeting the Middle East and North Africa. While our initial traction was very promising, the lack of fund and resources has affected our numbers and I am now in the process of looking for the right partnerships to take our startup to the next step.
Any thoughts or questions?
Hi Francois,
Thanks for sharing your travel startup here - it looks very well developed, bravo!
Here’s a few ideas for you:
1. Intelak Hub. They are a Dubai-based accelerator and incubator with a great team and alumni including many TM members. See
2. Microns.io is a marketplace for buying and selling startups. Perhaps you could meet some partners there.
3. Sigmund project is a place to find mentors and partners for early stage tourism ideas. See
4. Bond Connect is a new hospitality industry slack group, there may be some mentors or partners there. www.bond-connect.io
Hope that helps!
Also, this thread:
Hi Ian,
Thank you for the kind words and for taking the time to share all the helpful information.
I will look into the recommendation and hopefully unlock the door to the next step in my journey with BeitiBeitak.
Cheers!