{"id":62894,"date":"2023-08-06T04:27:25","date_gmt":"2023-08-06T04:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/startup.info\/?p=62894\/"},"modified":"2023-08-14T21:46:49","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T21:46:49","slug":"travelmap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/travelmap\/","title":{"rendered":"TravelMap : your travel blog centered on an interactive map"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>  <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>TravelMap<\/strong> was founded in January 2014 by <strong>Cl\u00e9ment Mas<\/strong>. He built the platform out of the need to quickly show the trips on a map and also seamlessly integrate media and <\/span>journal<span style=\"color: #000000;\">.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">TravelMap has been growing rapidly as a startup. It is now used by more than 30 000 <\/span>travellers<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> from all around the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The mission is to inspire people to get out of their comfort zone to travel more in a sustainable and meaningful way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Your success factors \u00a0\/\u00a0<\/b><\/span><span class=\"s1\"><b>Your factors differentiating and disruptive compared to the existing\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I first thought about TravelMap in 2012, when I was about to finish my IT <\/span>studies,<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> and start <\/span>travelling<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> for an undetermined amount of time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I wanted to find an easy way to let my family and friends know\u00a0<strong>where I was<\/strong>\u00a0and how I was doing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">At the time there were a few travel blog platforms, but they were not that appealing and none of them focused on a map. They were based on text and I don&#8217;t like writing that much &#8211; especially while <\/span>travelling<span style=\"color: #000000;\">. I just wanted to be able to press a button to save my position and go on. So I went ahead and built my own travel blog.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The concept worked out well. It was really easy for me to manage and even easier for my family and friends to follow my adventures.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">So on the 1st of January, 2014, I released the first public version of\u00a0<strong>TravelMap<\/strong>\u00a0so other <\/span>travellers<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> can also use it for their trips.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Your business model\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Premium account + Ads<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>A few words about your competitors<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The competitors (other travel blogging platforms) are trying to integrate maps <\/span>into<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> their products but it&#8217;s not as central as the map is on the TravelMap blogs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Your website\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/travelmap.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/travelmap.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TravelMap was founded in January 2014 by Cl\u00e9ment Mas. He built the platform out of the need to quickly show the trips on a map and also seamlessly integrate media and journal.\u00a0 TravelMap has been growing rapidly as a startup. It is now used by more than 30 000 travellers from all around the world&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":63586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1803],"tags":[1921,1922],"class_list":["post-62894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-blog-en-2","tag-travel-en-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213194,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62894\/revisions\/213194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}