travel 2 earn is a sustainable business

[mave99a]

There are lost of xxx2earn bs in the market, little make enough sense in the business/revenue side, but I think "travel 2 earn" makes a lot of sense.

Some basic principles in my thoughts related to "xxx 2 earn":

• "XXX to earn" will only be sustainably when enough users willing to "Pay to XXX".

• blockchain/crypto/tokens/web3 will NOT magically turn something from 0 or low value into a lot of value. It will never happen, most of fake projects use this to trick people.

Different "XXX to earn" quick analysis:

• "Create to earn"

  • "create to earn" is possible only when people really need what have been created. So content maker could make money only if enough people like their content.
  • steem is "write to earn", blogging is really hard to make money (the web 2.0 blog era, today's medium, substack, BAT/Braven etc.) it won't make money just by introduce blockchain

• "play to earn" only make sense for professional players, and it build upon a lot more people "pay to play". So a shitty game won't be able to support "play 2 earn", a great game with lots of people willing to "pay to play" will enable some "play to earn"

  • using complex token structure is just Ponzi scam
  • This space could be huge, but the gaming space is already huge. You just need to make amazing games, and have "play 2 earn" capability isn't the key to success

• "run to earn" will not work, because "run" it self won't create value, and for most of the people keep running is against human nature. So it will definitely most of people join this only motivated by making quick money, rather than run itself.

  • those NFT shoes are pointless, purely designed for making money from the people, doesn't provide any real value.

• "learn to earn" will not work either. Because "learn" is against human nature, also because "teach" is a very high skillful work, can't be created by random people.

Let's back to why "Travel 2 earn" could make sense:

• Travel industry is huge, a lot of money flow around
• People are spending a lot of money for travel all the time
• Travel is human nature and will not go away, people are motivated to do it whenever possible
• Travel doesn't require a lot of skills (compare to "create to earn" and "play to earn") and is very diversified.

Lots of places can be used:

• travel related content
• travel recommendations
• travel planning / sharing
• booking (hotels / restaurants / ...)
• reviews of services

[ee07b577]

make sense。

有几个疑问先记录到这里：

• 去中心化的 travel 2 earn 有什么优势？用户的身份是匿名的，那么做推荐/攻略的说服力会不会降低？如何利用系统的 声望 机制提高可信度？
• 旅行 App 的用户一般不是一直活跃的（可能一年旅行一两次），那时候用户会查看 推荐/攻略，那么他多大程度上愿意为内容本身付费？会不会更愿意在 web2平台上看免费的攻略。

几个想法：

• 用户可以用 token （通过发布推荐/攻略在平台赚取，以及读者打赏）支付 酒店、餐馆甚至旅游景点的费用，机票/火车票可能有一定难度。用户甚至可以 0 花费实现旅行的目的。
• 旅行相关的内容，是不是可以作为内容的一个频道，做到一个统一的平台下
• 可以众筹 开辟旅行项目/开旅馆/开饭店 吗？