Livetouring.com Helps Travellers Explore via Video Routes

Petr Tomek, Co-owner and Project Manager at Livetouring.com, helps travellers get to know beautiful and interesting places around the world via the Internet.

Petr is a part of the Travel Massive Prague chapter and was excited to answer some questions we had about Livetouring.com. You might want to read until the end, this is a completely new and unique concept to travel.

Livetouring.com is for those who are interested in getting to know the beauty of the world via modern technologies. Their application serves travelers and travel lovers:

• as a source of inspiration, where to go and which places to visit
• to remind them about the places they’ve visited and routes they’ve walked/cycled/etc.
• as an attractive way to explore places, which they aren’t able to visit personally

What inspired you to create this startup?

We’ve been running the web portal, Turistika.cz, for tourists and travelers in the Czech Republic. Descriptions of routes, trips, walks and rides have always been extremely popular among our users. So we came up with an idea to present them to tourists and travelers in a more attractive and modern way – by inventing and uploading our unique technology called video routes. These

These video routes are combining videos with a map and added points of interest, profile, elevation and other interesting things. After making them public, we had a huge positive response and decided to make a new website for this technology in other languages than Czech.

What makes your startup different from other similar startups out there?

We came up with a completely new technology. Our clients (cities, regions, travel and destination agencies, hotels etc.) were so enthusiastic about the new technology, that we shot more than 100 interesting routes during the very first year of launching our project.

Until now, we have shot more than 350 routes in 17 countries, which is together, about 8000 kilometers of video routes. Among the most viewed video routes belong Dubai Seaplane Flyover, Drive around Key West Florida and Cruise on the Vltava river in Prague.

How is your startup changing the future of the industry or helping to make travel better?

Livetouring is unique because it enables tourists, travelers or racers to visualize the route and get to know its difficulty and the interesting places before they set out. They can for example, easily find out that a particular route is not suitable for children. Small segments of our users are older or handicapped. Thanks to Livetouring, they can explore our routes virtually at home. We receive many positive responses from these people expressing their gratitude for getting to know many interesting places and routes.

Do you have any tips for new entrepreneurs who want to create a successful startup?

One money investing rule says that there is always more money than great ideas. So, if you have an interesting idea, don’t be afraid to convert it into a reality. On the other hand, keep in mind that one on the greatest skills is to terminate a project if it does not evolve according to visions and doesn’t meet your goals. Because faith is not a solution!

As a startup, what benefits have you seen from being a part of Travel Massive meetups?

Thanks to Travel Massive, we have a unique opportunity to meet interesting professionals from the tourism industry. It is a great opportunity to gain new business contacts and get to know new business partners, clients or just simply friends, who share our passion for traveling end exploring the world.

Travel Start-Up is a monthly series that profiles unique online travel start-ups in the Travel Massive community around the world. You can connect with Petr and Livetouring.com on Travel Massive and Facebook, or check out their app.