15toGO key features and why you should start using it right now
By: Viktor Dessov
Tags: Travel

15toGO is a platform that combines a social network for travelers with a group tours marketplace. Our main purpose is to change the way people travel by allowing them to get to know each other before an organized trip actually takes place. We have figured out that the rest of the group participants are the main factor for one’s experience when joining such a tour.

The slogan reveals the three main actions each user can undertake — MATCH. BOOK. TRAVEL. But what do they stand for?

MATCH

Is there a hobby that most of your friends don’t share with you or are they too busy to join you on your adventures? This is a common problem for everyone and we’re trying to solve it by providing you with access to a vast community of travelers.

You’ll be able to find your perfect like-minded travel buddies by using the Filter option on top of the People screen. Insert the activities you are most interested in (let’s say kitesurfing, parties, sightseeing), the age of the people you’d prefer to communicate with, their nationality, etc. and voila! You are presented with the profiles of those users that match your criteria.

Furthermore, you can open the users’ profiles to get to know them a bit better. Check out which countries they’ve visited, what their hobbies are and their posts so-far. If you want to keep up with them or to chat, just click the ‘GO With’ button and you’d be able to follow their activity thanks to the Board screen. Not only does it show you the latest photos they’ve uploaded on the app but it also reveals to you whenever they wishlist a trip.

Let’s say you and Mark have chatted in the past about a common passion of yours — diving. Since you are following Mark, you’ll be able to see on the Board when he adds a particular offer to his Bucket List (for instance ‘Carribean Diving Safari’). It’s a trip that you’ve been keen to hop on for a while and now you know who you can share the experience with!

2. BOOK

There are other ways to choose the perfect tour for you — you can simply go through the offers that have been published on the ‘Trips’ screen! Again, the most convenient tool you can use is the Filter option.

Select the months you’re free, the budget you can afford, the activities you’d like to practice and so on. Everything is made as seamless as possible. You can even see the list of individuals who’ve expressed their desire to partake in the tours that are published on the marketplace!

Once you’ve picked an offer and you’ve gone through the itinerary, the pictures and the required information you can simply press the ‘Book’ button, which will take you to our native booking engine.

Just in case you’ve missed some of the information in the main offer, all the essentials are displayed here once more. You choose the departure date, the price package, as well as any additional activities you’d like to throw in. There are various payment options you can then take advantage of — credit or debit card, cash on delivery, bank transfer… Whatever you deem most convenient.

This is a huge leap forward for a lot of small tour operators out there who cannot afford to implement a booking engine on their websites and who have to rely on basic contact forms.

Some trips may be marked as a ‘GO Deal’ and will be shown on top of all others. A GO Deal is a promotional offer that allows one of the first 15 people to book it the chance to join the tour for free! You can learn more about the GO Deals here. Just keep in mind that these offers are only temporary and you’d need to often act quickly before all the spots are filled in!

3. TRAVEL

Almost everyone nowadays is traveling, but with 15toGO this lifestyle can be improved immensely! It’s important to note that traveling with a group is often better than doing it solo for a number of reasons.

It’s more fun — especially if you’ve had the time to acquaint yourself with the rest of the group participants prior to the trip

You build meaningful relationships — these newfound connections often continue long after the end of the tour

It’s safer — we are working on introducing a method of evaluating the users on the platform based on their behavior. This will allow you to easily assess them and decide whether or not you’d like to be in the company of someone you’re not familiar with.

And in case you don’t want to be with strangers but rather with your friends, there is another alternative for you (coming soon) — Private Trips! If, for example, you’d like to visit Nepal and have a very specific itinerary in mind, then all you’d need to do is send us your request for a private trip, describing all the particular details of it. From there on our team will make sure to introduce your dream journey to one of the licensed tour operators that we collaborate with. They will let you know if they’d be able to tailor-make it for you and what the cost of it would be. And if you are an influencer with thousands of followers, then some service providers may even contact you with the proposition to customize your own tour in exchange for free advertising!

Throughout all of these processes, including once the trip has started, you will have access to our Customer Happiness Agents. Their primary task is to make sure that all of 15toGO’s users are satisfied with the overall experience. If you need their support, just press the ‘Chat’ button on the 15toGO website and they’ll get back to you to resolve any issues that you may have.

And last, but not least, we need to mention the Travel Credit. Whenever someone you’ve invited to the platform books a tour on it, you’ll be receiving 5% of whatever they spend in the form of Travel Credit. You will be rewarded not only for their first but also for their second and third trip as well! You can then use this Travel Credit to reduce the cost of any of the offers on the 15toGO Marketplace! And if you have amassed a great quantity of Travel Credit, you may even redeem it for cash — so if you are a travel influencer this can prove to be an extremely lucrative side income for you.

15toGO is constantly evolving. Our strive is to be the leading force behind the disruption of the tours and activities sector. Make sure to follow us on social media and be notified when new functionalities are released to the public and when new milestones are reached.