Today is a very special day for all of us who’ve been working for over a year on trourist. The day for our official launch has arrived. It is time to unveil ourselves to the world!!!
For the last three months we’ve been operating on private BETA, and we wish to thank all those travelers who contributed truly helpful ideas and suggestions so that we could take trourist to the next level.
Without further ado, here are some of the main improvements you’ll now find:
- Explore the world through trourist. We’ve added a navigable map in which zeppelins will ‘fly’ you to assorted destinations on the globe where a trourist experience has taken place. On the same page, we’ve highlighted notable trends to illustrate what’s happening out there (cities with the largest number of trourists, most frequented cities, and so on).
- Share city experiences. It’s no longer necessary to create a trip to upload an experience. This makes it much easier for you to share with your friends those experiences that make a city so special.
- Facebook connect and g-mail finder. With these two new applications, sharing trourist with your friends will be a snap and the experience of doing so a lot more fun. Besides, those experiences you create in trourist will be included in your facebook newsfeed so that even more friends can learn that a new way to travel is possible.
Okay, we’ve informed you. The best thing now is for you to check out these new improvements for yourself.
Lastly, let us encourage you to share with your friends and other trourists the most genuine and rewarding experiences you’ve lived this summer.
We sincerely hope you enjoy trourist and find it useful.
Eight cities. Thirty-three days. 12.500 kilometers. A motor home transformed into a zeppelin. And one goal: live those experiences hidden to anyone traveling as a tourist; plus, get to know cities with the help of others and enlist the participation of its people.To sum up, that’s been ExperienceLess, an eight-city romp full of rewarding impressions from both a personal and professional standpoint.
ExperienceLess is a spinoff of trourist.com, created for the two-fold purpose of enjoying unique experiences among friends and underscoring our principal ideal: to live the places, rather than merely visit them. During our crusade, we’ve scampered through Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin, Prague, Budapest, Istambul and Barcelona – cities in which we often resorted to the unconventional in order to meet our objectives.
Seated in squares, parks, even a metro, we’ve held up a cardboard poster bearing the message: “Help! I’m ExperienceLess. I don’t want to visit your city, I want to live it. Thanks.” As you can readily see, our setting was not unlike that of a homeless person and the name of our project’s initiative was not pure happenstance.
Admittedly, there were people who when they saw us understood nothing. Others observed us with indifference. Generally speaking, though, we were quite pleased with the hospitality shown. People gave their time and interest so that we could walk away from their cities with more than just mute stares from historical buildings and museums.
Our backpack of experiences was filled with all kinds of goodies: home-cooked Dutch cuisine with a student in Amsterdam; a hoola-hoop class in a Berlin park, a birthday bash with a Budapest boy, smoking a water pipe atop an Istanbul rooftop, and collectively cooking a potato omelet with a couple in Barcelona, with a follow-up concert to boot. Not bad for four amigos who before the trip were ExperienceLess.
Trourist is the meeting point for everybody who don’t remain indifferent when traveling, for those who come back home with even more questions than answers in their minds. That’s why we think it would be very enriching to share these thoughts, emotions and experiences. By doing so, we would have the chance to know better other people’s feelings.
For that reason, we propose the following twitter trend #trouristmusings. Our aim is to turn #trouristmusings into the speaker of all of us who travel to connect to the world. To do so, there is no need of famous quotes and the language used won’t matter either. For us what really matters is the feelings.
All of you who are not Twitter users will be more than welcome to share your thoughts in our Facebook’s fan page and at this blog.
ExperienceLess is a movement that was born to live, not to die.
You, with your ideas, suggestions, comments, photos and videos, can keep it alive – even make it immortal. Together we can transform it into a meeting point for those of us who travel to live destinations, not visit them.
by Imanol Abad
"Gracias por compartir más cosas que hacer en las ciudades. Una que no había incluído en mi lista"