Posts Tagged ‘Anthony Hsiao’:
18 Jul 08
Map your trips with EnTrip
Anthony Hsiao, a German-Taiwanese Entrepreneur, who studied Electrical Engineering at Imperial College and ETH Zurich, co-founded a very interesting Start-Up called EnTrip a couple of months ago. EnTrip allows its users to create and share trips using a map-based approach. Their interface is built on Google Maps and combines travel information with social community contents, such as Flickr and Facebook.
I talked to Anthony today and we had a great discussion on how travel behavior might develop over the next few years. Personally I am convinced that travel will become much more personal than in the last decades of mass tourism and all-inclusive hotels. Start-Ups like EnTrip can benefit from this trend and create services that allow customers to share their travel experiences with their friends in a better way. In the following, I will write about some of the opportunities and the obstacles to overcome that I see, when looking at EnTrip. Continue reading