Travel Is Your Business

Connecting travelers with local trip planners for custom itineraries to Iceland, Cuba, and Japan… Greg Buzulencia, Co-Founder/CEO of ViaHero (a marketplace for travelers to hire locals to plan their personalized trip), joins John Matson, Bess Chapman of JetBlue Technology Ventures, and Pavan Bahl (President, MouthMedia Network) in the MouthMedia Network studios powered by Sennheiser. In this episode: Bess Chapman [Episode 003] of JetBlue Technology Ventures (a venture capital spinoff of JetBlue Airways, keeping a pulse on tech innovation and driving deal flow through New York) joins the podcast as a host ViaHero works with locals telling people what they should be doing on a trip How, being a marketplace, ratings and reviews keeps people in check, whereas travel agents are beholden to commissions Cuba, Japan, and Colombia as countries in which Via Hero has presence Average user wants local knowledge, people who have tours or Travel Agent plan, they are there for service but want to be independent Algorithm m