No Bore

Description:

Problem and Trends:

Business travelers usually stay in hotels. Their evening activities are mostly limited to get-ting dinner, watching TV, browsing around or even working. Eager persons will try to do sightseeing or use the hotel gym, if available. At the same time, unhealthy food and seden-tarism can be quickly adopted. Moreover, social contacts decrease due to numerous eve-nings spent in hotels. In the long term, this predictable evening program may result in frus-tration, higher workload or even sickness. Not only employees should be concerned about their work life balance, but also their employers have a duty to care about their staff work-ing at other locations. Only employees with a healthy and variable travel style will stay motivated and efficient in the long term.

Fitting leisure activities in a professional trip is a growing trend called “Bleisure trips” (cf. Travel Weekly 2017) and is gaining popularity, especially among the newest generations. Recent statistics reveal millennials are showing increasing interest in this and many of them intentionally carve out some time or even extend their stay in order to improve their experience during their trip (cf. Forbes 2017, Telegraph 2016). As a result, companies are looking into their policies regarding professional travels.

Even so, what prevents travelers from doing activities they normally perform at home is a lack of knowledge about the environment. Moreover, people do not want to spend much time on research for evening activities. They prefer to find events and appointments quick-ly, in an uncomplicated way. This leads to the question how leisure activities for business travelers during their journeys can be offered in a simple and easy way.

Solution:

Our solution, “NoBore”, is a mobile app that enables quick and easy appointments after working days, like going for sports, dinner or cultural activities when business travelers are residing in unknown cities. Users enter their potential interests from a list of common ac-tivities for a given time window during their spare time. Once another person or persons commits the same interests, the backend of the app identifies a match and notifies all users to have a potential meeting. Furthermore, it suggests the possible venues and indicates their prices. For convenience, in-app payment is available.

Our app helps to overcome different the problems described above: The user does not need to search for activities but only selects what he/she wants to do. This saves the time for ar-ea exploration because the app knows the options in town. In addition, local businesses in-volved can promote their offers, such as theatre, tennis courts or ice skating for instance.

Business Model

Value Proposition

The value proposed by our service comprises an engine helping users to spontaneously find peers for local activities. This includes sports, culture, dinner as well as connecting people with businesses willing to provide possibilities to do these activities. The result of such a match is our users not being bored, hence the name of the project. A matching mechanism similar to the one found in popular dating apps will be used to facilitate the connection between multiple users sharing similar interests.

Customer Segments

The services NoBore offers are mainly aimed at three groups of customers, namely busi-ness travelers, local businesses offering leisure activities and corporations running health care programs for their customers.

Revenue Streams

Revenue will be generated through a commission paid by the local businesses offering their services on our platform. The fee will be charged automatically for an activity negotiated through the application. Travelers will benefit from our services without charges for most of the offers. Additionally, local businesses can pay for their services being promoted in the app. It is intended to offer economic and premium advertisement models. Furthermore, on the long run, corporations employing business travelers might contribute a subscription based fee to use our app service.

Team

Founder

Adrian Ackva

Co Founder & CTO

Berenger Nguyen Nhon

Co Founder & CTO

Paul German