MeetnGreetMe – Personalizing your Travel Experience

What is MeetnGreetMe

MeetnGreetMe hybrid blockchain platform is designed to deliver customer-centric service tailored to travelers’ needs and make travel experience a really personalized experience around the world. This is the core value all the interactions are built around.

MeetnGreetMe is a crowdsourced travel concierge service and lifestyle management ecosystem where every traveler can request services tailored to their travel needs and budget. Delivered by resourceful local people and paid via blockchain enabled P2P payment system.

MeetnGreetMe platform provides an infrastructure for the value creation and enables value exchange between participants, sets the rules of access and usage to ensure that desirable interactions are encouraged and undesirable ones are totally eliminated.

Mission

The MeetnGreetMe mission is to let everyone access all the benefits of personalized approach to their travel needs while supporting local businesses and communities to market their services and products at fair costs.

Recognizing that our life as international travelers can be more comfortable, easier and enjoyable should we knew trustworthy people in a visited city, we have started to develop a new concept of personal travel concierge service which is delivered by local people to world travelers and hence can be afforded by anyone who needs it. Basing it on trust, friendship, fun and hospitality we are building a global community of like-minded people who are happy to share their hospitality, local expertise and knowledge with travelers.

Vision

We connect advanced technologies and real human experiences to change a way we travel. We aim at revolutionizing travel and hospitality industry via turning it into a crowdsourced ecosystem with decentralized elements where every member is incentivized to contribute with their time, skills, local expertise and resources to the MeetnGreetMe ultimate goal - help people from around the world travel carefree, enjoy personalized approach to their travel needs and savour authentic experiences wherever they are.

We see MeetnGreetMe as a community driven marketplace where all the parties will find an opportunity for self-expression and -enhancement through helping others and eventually will be rewarded by the community. Moreover, the background diversification of MeetnGreetMe community members will help to bring the blockchain technology to masses and popularize it among people around the world.

MeetnGreetMe services

From meeting upon arrival or accompanying during the stay to helping with organizing your life events or finding business contacts in a visited city, local MeetnGreeters are stuffed to deliver a wide range of tailor-made services to help international travelers to reach their travel goals and save time for things that matter

Advantages of blockchain

MeetnGreetMe AS-IS

Today MeetnGreetMe exists as a two-sided marketplace for travel concierge services delivered by local people to international travelers. With a zero marketing budget we managed to build a community of MeetnGreeters in more than 200 cities around the world. MeetnGreetMe community has always been welcome to co-create and share their ideas to help to develop MeetnGreetMe platform without getting anything in return. It became obvious that the strong and engaged community is a key factor for MeetnGreetMe to succeed. Moreover, it’s a valuable source of information about their locations and a very natural way of collecting information about travelers’ interests and preferences.

MeetnGreetMe TO-BE

Adapting the blockchain technology will allow MeetnGreetMe to have its own means - MeetnGreetMe crypto-token - to incentivize contributors and reward the activities connected with the platform growth and development.

MeetnGreetMe crypto-tokens are aimed at fuelling MeetnGreetMe ecosystem. Besides, the blockchain enabled payment system will allow to exclude a costly middleman from the money transfer process in future, make it transparent and convenient for the parties regardless their geographical location. Today people from some countries have to refuse the opportunity to become MeetnGreeters just because of unreasonably high transfer fees.

Platform

MeetnGreetMe platform was built to provide its users with the infrastructure essential for mutually beneficial interactions.

Today MeetnGreetMe platform includes such features as

Profile creation and promotion
Search and match of users in split of cities and predetermined filters
Verification procedure
Chat
Sending and accepting service requests
Rating and review system
Notification system
Balance management
Integrated payment system
Mobile messenger for Android
Blog.

WelcomeCoins

WelcomeCoin is a utility token issued with the purpose to uniquely access a network, use it and contribute to its development as well as been rewarded in accordance with individual efforts and contribution. People who put in more efforts will be entitled to more rewards. Simply owning a token does not guarantee participation in reward distribution.

WelcomeCoins run on the Ethereum blockchain and implement the Ethereum ERC20 standard specifications.

WelcomeCoin is backed by real MeetnGreetMe services. It means that WelcomeCoins available for sale are directly correlated with the number of service hours which can be acquired on the platform.

WelcomeCoin is multifaceted in its essence and will support development of MeetnGreetMe in different directions.

Business model

In the P2P segment MeetnGreetMe will continue to charge MeetnGreeters 20% commission fee as a world-wide accepted benchmark for P2P services. It’s planned to be lower with time as the blockchain technology will help to significantly lower operating costs. Moreover, with WelcomeCoins circulation MeetnGreeters will have different opportunities to increase their total earnings undertaken certain actions.

In the B2B2C segment MeetnGreetMe aims to complement travel and hospitality industry by bringing personalized approach to travelers’ needs. Hotels, airlines, cruise lines, accommodation platforms are among those businesses, whose customers can benefit from MeetnGreetMe service. Every partnership has its peculiarities and can become an additional source of earnings for MeetnGreetMe.

Market overview

World travel and tourism market has already reached $ 7.61 trillion with 2.31 trillion coming directly from the industry. Global online travel sales totaled $ 564.87 billion and is projected to grow to $ 755.94 billion in 2019. More than 1.2 billion people crossed international borders in 2016 for business and leisure and international tourist arrivals worldwide is forecasted to grow by 4% annually and reach more than 1.8 billion by 2030. Business travel expenditures are forecasted to rise up to $1.6 trillion by 2020. 20% of travel industry is already affected by peer-to-peer services.

Token Distribution

150,000,000 WEL are going to be issued with 75,000,000 WEL accessible throughout the crowdsale. It’s a one-time emission.

Pre-sale starts on 11 Dec 2017 (9:00 AM EST)

Soft cap1,000,000 USD / 10,000,000 WEL

Hard cap7,500,000 USD / 75,000,000 WEL

Accepted Currencies ETH

Token rate 1 WEL = 0.0004 ETH

1 WEL = 0.10 USD

ICO

The exact date of the main crowdsale will be defined later and will be on during 4 weeks.

ICO will have a minimum cap of 1 000 000 USD.

Early contributors will get a bonus. The bonus rate will drop with every week, starting at 9% and ending with 0% on the last week of the crowdsale.