Startup Idea: Travel Arbitrage Platform - Real-Time Rapid Travel Deals

Startup idea to develop a platform that leverages algorithms to offer users spontaneous and value-for-money travel deals. The system would compare current deals with historical data to offer the best travel packages when the price and conditions are most ripe for purchase. Aimed at those with a spontaneous travel spirit but who also have budget considerations, this idea strives to eliminate decision paralysis in booking trips.

A travel rapid deals site that takes advantage of people’s spontaneous impulses and lets them feel good about it. Set your city (mine is Columbus) and imagine getting sent rapid-fire deals when it’s the absolute BEST price and value. The algorithms on our site (let’s call it Abiri.com) scan 24/7 for all travel deals from your home city. We compare prices and offerings to historical data, and when a moment for true travel arbitrage arises, we notify you. It will be a message like “A flight and hotel package to Dublin, Ireland is pricing the lowest it has in 6 years. Reserve now?” So, it’s like value investing in stocks, but in travel. Book your spontaneous travel, and feel good about it because you are getting historically significant values. This, of course, is a humongous idea, but it does solve a problem: we want to travel, and we want to go where our heart tells us to, but we don’t know when or why the trip costs what it does. Are we actually getting a good deal? Are we buying smart? This takes that analysis paralysis out of the equation. It’s a nifty tool always to have running in your life.