In 2011, James Fisher and his wife Tatiana Parent founded the website Roadtrippers.com in their mid twenties. This web and mobile app is designed to help plan your traveling and turn trips into adventures. Fisher grew up traveling Africa with his parent’s safari business, and Parent grew up traveling the US extensively. After they got married and came to the US they found the lack of useful travel resources frustrating. Particularly finding independent points of interest that could be easily synced with navigation was nearly impossible, so they created Roadtrippers.
I think one of the most valuable things about their product, is how easy it is to use. You simply set a start and end point that appears on the map, and then you can choose to see potential points of interest ranging from outdoor & recreation, to entertainment & nightlife, by clicking different icons. All of the possible options will appear along the map and you can choose to add them to your trip. Roadtrippers also adds value by calculating your mileage and gas costs.
Roadtrippers has provided for those in need of travel inspiration and adventure.
This is a really cool concept and i think i might actually download this because having points of interest that aren’t necessarily huge tourist attractions sounds like fun. Whoever came up with this idea is definitely satisfying a need, I would like to know if they are making any money off this!