Let’s Travel with Many Tour Packages in Travinesia.com, a creation of IPB Alumni
Tourism sector becomes one of the top sources in the nation’s development in the last few years. It was noted that in 2018, foreign exchange earned from the tourism sector amounted to US$ 17.6 billion. That achievement was an increase from 2017, which amounted US$ 16.8 billion. The number of tourists visiting Indonesia also increased. In 2018, there were 16.8 million foreign tourists and 270 million local tourists.
As an effort to advance the national tourism sector, Ghulam Halim Furgoni along with seven friends develops e-commerce market calledtravinesia.com.
Travinesia.com is a market place that caters travel agency that sells various tour packages. Not only tour packages to popular sites, in travinesia, visitors can also get new tour packages that have not been so popular to the society.
“We try to give a platform for travel agents, especially those who are still in the form of SME that have difficulties in marketing their tour packages,” said Ghulam, an alumnus of the Faculty of Animal Sciences, IPB University.
Ghulam admitted, travel agencies usually promote their packages through social media, and only a few utilizes website as a promotion media. In his opinion, travel agencies that have utilized website as promotion media are those who have been well-established and have a lot of capital. Whereas there are still many SME-scaled travel agencies that need assistance in promotion.
On the other side, Ghulam continued, there are many frauds done by travel agencies, causing difficulty for traveller to find a trusted agency.
“Usually travel agency asks for full payment to the traveller since ordering, but in the departure day, that agent cannot be contacted,” said Ghulam. To overcome that problem, travinesia guarantee everything to the traveller that has booked a package. That assurance includes return money in case traveller fails to meet the travel agent. Payment to travel agents is done after the travel agent meets the traveler who has booked. Travel agents and travellers are asked to confirm their meeting with the travinesia admin for the fund disbursement process.
Before booking a package in travinesia.com, traveller can compare prices and provided facilities. A comparison is needed to ensure that traveller does not feel wronged for an expensive price yet less pleasant facilities.
The packages included in travinesia.com are divided into eight categories; beach, mountain, city tour, adventure, culture, honeymoon, sailing, and halal trip. Not only tour packages to popular places, it also provided tour packages to new places that have not been widely known by the public.
“In Indonesia, there are still a lot of unexposed tourist attractions, so we offer new tourist attraction by collaborating with the nearest travel agency in the location. We also provide two types of trips; open trip and private trip,” added Ghulam.
An open trip is provided for traveller that likes to meet new people, so in one destination there will be travellers from many regions. On the other hand, a private trip is specified for traveller that wants to enjoy quality time with family and friends.
