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Why "Travel in Med" ?
♦♦ Identify all tourism professionals within the
Mediterranean area
♦♦ Connect the actors of all tourism trades
♦♦ Make available all tools necessary to a direct,
simple and quick communication.
♦♦ Help to the discovery of new destinations
through mini guides
♦♦ Share and release information useful to all
♦♦ Become part of an enlarged community of
interest, including all tourism sectors
♦♦ Access an upgradable and dynamic data base,
directly supplied by the community.
"Travel In Med" is the reply to a strong demand
for services and tools necessary for travel experts’
activity. It is an innovative information platform that
addresses all professionals and governments that want
to communicate about their products and exchange
information in real time.
"Travel In Med" brings together, in a single portal, all
the information relating to the Mediterranean tourism.
Its services are offered to professionals worldwide.
With "Travel in Med", a travel agent will find, in one
and only site, all the necessary information to create
an "à la carte" trip, at the best conditions and prices.
All "Travel in Med" members share the same ethics
and desire to promote the Mediterranean region.
They can be identified thanks to a common logo :
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"TRAVEL in MED" for WHO ?
♦♦ Suppliers : all Mediterranean service providers
related to tourism
♦♦ Clients : tourism professional from all over the
world.
All "Travel in Med" members can exchange with one
another ; thus a service provider may comme into
contact with another provider. (A Tunisian travel agent
can contact a travel agent in Nantes, etc.).
All service providers involved in the creation of a trip
are "suppliers", this includes tourist offices :
hotels, rent a car or boat companies, incoming
agencies, guides, airlines, maritime companies, guest
houses, ryads, theme parks, tourist vehicles with
driver, airports, sports activities, etc.
For instance, a travel agent looking for a tour guide for
the visit of a city will be able to get in touch directly
with a guide to include his services from the start of
the elaboration of the trip, thanks to a direct contact
with an hotel additional services proposed may be
more personalized. Our data base and mail services
allow quick and direct contacts, with high reactivity
and an optimized margin.
"Travel In Med" is meant for tourism professionals, it
is a real private social network.
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"Travel In Med" : HOW ?
"Travel In Med" offers an easy and friendly access to a wide range of services and tools :
♦♦ A business directory with a multi-criteria search engine (search by country, city, Category
of suppliers, etc.)
♦♦ A geolocalization map of the members (Google Maps)
♦♦ Instant internal messaging with management of user groups
♦♦ Individual display and communication space for each of its members, showing his
contact information (address, e-mail, phone, general infos, etc.) and detailing products
♦♦ An internal rating system between professionals for all activities
♦♦ Informative guides and presentation of all destinations in the Mediterranean region
(regions, cities)
♦♦ Regional news posted in real time, by the network users.
♦♦ A general newsletter informing the latest news, regional product trends, ads, promotions,
publicity etc.
"Travel In Med" is open to Mediterranean service providers as well as to travel and tourism agents
worldwide.
The business model is based on subscriptions. The annual subscription costs €ur. 90.
Currently, the site is free to all members, until the first of March 2016.
After this period, any new members who registers will receive one month of free connection.
The Institutional, the Medias and the Tourism Organizations (Tourist offices, Ministries,
etc.) preserve a permanent free access.
Registrations and fact sheets of members of the community feed a constantly evolving data
base.
The site is already available in bêta format at the following address : www.travelinmed.com.
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Actors of the Mediterranean
market
Why the Mediterranean area ?
The Mediterranean market is the union of countries
around the Mediterranean Sea. This is the first tourist
area in the world, representing one third of the global
market.
The tourism market is becoming increasingly competitive
and ambitious new players are emerging (Brazil, Arab
Emirates, China, Qatar, etc.).
To meet this competition, the Mediterranean area needs
to project a strong and coherent image of the region as an
homogeneous geographical entity like the one Caribbean
professionals succeeded to create since many years.
Tourism actors
Travel agencies
New technologies linked to internet open new perspectives.
They allow inexpensive direct contact (mail, website,
skype, etc.) with the entire chain of professionals, while
offering new services to customers.
Hoteliers
Large internet operators demand hoteliers commissions
as important as those they were subjected to - in the
past - from tour operators. Hoteliers also seek ways to
increase their visibility, contacts and margins.
Service companies related to tourism
Incoming agencies, ground transport companies, event
organizations, guides, boat rentals, hikers, etc. are
essentials to elaborate a trip.
These companies are trying to expand their distribution
channels to be known – directly - from travel agencies
and other service companies related to their activity.
Tourist Office across the Mediterranean Sea
They seek to promote their country / their region / city. To
do so, they publish online, particularly for professionals,
presentation brochures of their products.
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JOINING "Travel in Med" is easy
Registration :
Fill in a form (company data, images, profile, etc.)
Once you are registered, you can connect with your ID codes and gain
access to the full array of "Travel in Med" services.
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Access "Travel in Med" services
Home page :
Looking for suppliers through map services and multi-criteria search engine
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Results :
Results of the search for suppliers
Suppliers’ detailed form :
Possibility to get in touch using ‘chats’
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Mails :
Conversation history, dialog box, contacts, favorites, groups, requests to other providers
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Page Guides :
Searching for tourism guides
Viewing a video document
Tourist Offices are making documents (mini-guides and videos) available, "Travel in Med" members
can get them, consult them and upload them.
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Who are we ?
YVES ROUACH
25 years of experience in various tourism sectors. Yves ran a travel agency
in business travel organization and events. In 2009, he founded Travel Club
Monaco, a travel agency specialized in "à la carte" travel.
Yves is the project leader.
Email : [email protected]
Mobile : +33 (0)6 98 59 08 60
NICOLL CHOME
Forty years of experience and expertise in travel and tourism (Bahamas World
Airways, Nouveau Monde Travel Agency, UFTAA).
In this project, Nicoll is in charge of contacts with institutions and
professionals.
Email : [email protected]
Mobile : +33 (0)6 78 63 29 97
PATRICK DONATO
Thirty years of experience in high-tech and IT services . IT Manager at
France Telecom and co-founder of the IT group INSYS. At present, he
manages MINERALL, the company he founded, specialized in communication
and website developments.
Patrick is in charge of internet development.
Email : [email protected] Mobile : +33 (0)6 20 44 03 27
"Travel In Med" Limited, Monaco limited liability company, with a €. 15,000 capital.
Director : Yves Rouach
Intellectual property , concept and functionalities registered with Hautier Office in Nice (France)
Trademark "Travel In Med" abbreviated in "TIM" - INPI n°12/3916198.
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Conclusion
"Travel In Med", is the first social network meant for all tourism professionals in the Mediterranean
region. This network is the reply to the strong demand for contacts to be established, for services
and tools needed for the activity of travel experts. It allows all Mediterranean tourism stakeholders
direct access to a unique portal.
"Travel In Med" creates a community of stakeholders who animate and directly supply a dynamic
data base that keeps on evolving, with the full support of our team always attentive to your
requests.
"Travel In Med" must become the reference for a community of actors, whose search for quality
service to the customer is constantly evolving.
www.travelinmed.com
Travel In Med
Le Panorama - 57 Rue Grimaldi - 98000 MONACO
Phone : (377) 98 800 100 - Fax : (377) 97 988 010
Email : [email protected]
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