ShareTrip: Embracing Innovation in Travel for a Smart Bangladesh

Travellers now plan their journeys and choose their destinations differently than before the internet era. Instead of visiting a traditional brick-and-mortar travel agency, travellers can now study potential destinations online. As people become more tech-savvy and frequently rely only on smartphones, Bangladesh’s travellers trust online travel agencies more. And local online travel agencies like ShareTrip are leading the way with smart digitisation in the country.

A Game Changer

ShareTrip, the first locally developed travel app in Bangladesh, revolutionised how people schedule their domestic or international trips with the help of their in-house tech team. ShareTrip allows users limitless flexibility when selecting their vacation destinations and plans by utilising the world’s largest tour operators, hotel distributors, and flight distribution systems. Users have access to over 2.5 Million international hotel inventory, more than 1500+ domestic hotels, and hundreds of combinations of flights to every country.

Creating New Benchmarks

The industry was just starting in 2014 when Travel Booking BD first set out on its adventure. However, the company rapidly began to contribute to the new era of travel. After securing investment, it rebranded and introduced a cutting-edge app and website with an all-inclusive travel solution, increasingly providing travellers with a complete experience. Within a year of its release, the app won over 400,000 users’ trust and received high ratings in both the Play Store and the App Store. Currently, 70% of their traffic comes from the mobile app, providing service to 2 million clients, and has been downloaded over half a million times.

An Immersive Experience

Users daily rely on innovative services like the flight tracker on the ShareTrip app and website to check the status of their flights. They can utilise a visa tracker to verify the status of their application when applying for a visa with ShareTrip. Readers can access a helpful blog feature tagged alongside Travel Advisory services before or while arranging their travels. These features are helping users make smarter travel choices every day. Travellers will be able to control their whole itinerary straight from the app in future updates, enabling them to make even wiser travel decisions without difficulty and on the go. These updates will also include options for flight cancellation and refunds. Additionally, ShareTrip launched Bangladesh’s first-ever loyalty program for the travel sector. Through the ShareTrip app and website, travellers can win and earn TripCoins, which they can then use to redeem for fantastic savings on ShareTrip services. A flight and visa application tracker were also introduced to facilitate a more immersive travel experience. Anyone who requires a COVID-19 test while travelling overseas can easily make a reservation through ShareTrip. ShareTrip provides numerous health-related protections for domestic travel via insurance coverage.

A Comprehensive Ecosystem

In order to further facilitate an enhanced travel experience, baggage claim protection will soon be available. With its expansion into the B2B segment, ShareTrip aims to build a comprehensive smart travel ecosystem and provide services for individual travellers in the offline sector. ShareTrip understands that the first step in creating a smart Bangladesh is to enable B2B companies to serve the bulk of offline travellers better. Over 8000 B2B agents are working with ShareTrip to digitise travel. ShareTrip, the country’s first OTA, is aware of the need to encourage the expansion of the travel industry. It has joined forces with Startup Bangladesh Ltd., Bangladesh Government leading venture capital firm, to digitalise the sector in line with Vision 2049.

Towards a New Era

ShareTrip is bridging the gap in the market, from empowering remote entrepreneurs to teaching customers how to travel conveniently and affordably in a digital world. The company’s partnership with Startup Bangladesh Ltd. will enable ShareTrip to transform the travel sector into a significant contributor to GDP growth achievement. Due to their understanding of the underlying technology and ability to adapt to the particular customer behaviour of Bangladeshi travellers, ShareTrip has a tech-forward mentality. ShareTrip has worked incredibly hard to completely revolutionise and digitise the nation’s travel business since it was founded. It will have a significant economic impact on Bangladesh and alter how a new generation of tech-savvy Bangladeshis perceive travel.

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Photographs: Courtesy of ShareTrip Limited

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