Aiming to eliminate the aggravation of too many search
results, a new patent-pending software is designed to help solo travelers - who often wind up paying more and have to wade through thousands of options - find
what they are looking for quickly and easily.
The Solo Travel
Pricing Tracker is a new tool on Solo Trekker 4 U, a site that launched in 2012
to help people traveling alone find options with no or low single supplements.
“If you put Latin America and adventure and no single
supplement in Google, you get 403,000 results. You have the needle in the haystack.
Too much information is no information,” says Elizabeth Avery, founder of Solo
Trekker 4 U. “A solo traveler cannot effectively use the traditional search
tools.”
The same search using the Solo Travel Pricing Tracker offers
six results.
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Pulling from the sites database of 900 providers with 26,000
options, the new tool links destinations and types of trips - everything from “luxury
tours” to “safaris-ecotours” to “cultural-historic” experiences - with five
different solo travel pricing models.
Avery says she has applied for a patent for the software
since she believes it is the only one of its kind that supports this sort of
query.
Next she plans to offer paid listings to tour operators to
be featured on the site.