ToTheOtherSide

Je souhaite faire part d’un projet sur lequel j’ai put travaillé à l’EPFL. Bien sur je n’étais pas seul et je remercie Matthieu M. Sébastien M. et Benoît L.. Celui-ci consiste à un site de vacances de nouveau genre. Dans ce milieu très compétitif ou autres les ténors comme Expedia, LastMinute, … des nouveaux se montrent très rapidement comme Zoover (primé au Web08), notre concept adopte une approche différente.

Imaginer il est 14h on est Jeudi. Fatigué par la semaine, une seule envie partir en week-end et se décontracter. Mais pas envie ni le temps de passer 3h à rechercher les infos essentielles, ni l’envie de dépenser un tiers du salaire
La solution ? En trois clics et moins de 300 euros, on vous la fournit grâce à web-weekend !

Je mets ci-dessous, les slides en Anglais de la présentation finale et reste toujours partant pour discuter de ce projet si vous êtes intéressé…

PS : BTW, pour les urls, je les ai réservées en .com et .fr ;-)

Ci-dessous également, un résumé ou Executive Summary extrait du business plan :

web-weekend ?

What is it ? Just another website on the Internet ? Especially in the e-tourism ?
Well, we don’t thinck so, imagine…“it is Friday, mid-noon, you are just taking your lunch break in front of your computer screen at the company you work in. You are asking your friends on the floor below what to do this week-end ? And you come up with a little trip abroad, but where and how ? You don’t know and you just have a little budget and little time to book everything. You want to have fun, find a cheap but good hostel and discover a new culture…”
Thus web-weekend.com comes and provides a new way of seeing short vacation mixing both the advantages of a popular website such as Lastminute.com and a community website to a 18-35 years-old population.

different in why ?

Why are we different ? Because we will suggest where to go in Europe along with traditional user search and gives the user, the opportunity to choose its trips components based on the community advice and feedbacks. Those components includes the transportation choice, not from hub-to-hub but from door-to-door along with the best places about where to sleep and where to go out in Europe.

how ?

For doing this, we set up a platform where all the users can put comment about their past experience and rank them. Thus based on that, the user will be able to choose what fits best for him and click on the link to book it, For the moment, we will provide from this step, no more than two steps for booking accomodation and the same for the transport solution.
However, we are working on a solution to gather this two components. Along this, we plan on a short term to offer some packages based on the top ranking and the best next event in all Europe,

and business model ?

Based on the proved sponsoring, advertising, adsenses and merchant links of similar websites,our analysis reveals that we have a break-even of two years and a good cash flow to back our growth. Moreover, on the long term, our opportunities of making money can be enlarged : creation of a label for the hostels, the best places; creation of “web-weekend.com packages” and in our growing, we will be able to look outside the “old continent”…