Search engine burning stages FAN TRIP

to Travel is not always expensive, and many know this from personal experience. Ways to save there are different, but one of the most popular now — if you are not willing to sacrifice service, travelling "savage", or the speed going to a way, is the so-called "chip trip" (trip cheap – "inexpensive trip"). Even the best resorts are rarely filled all the year round: a serious flow of visitors have for the holidays and the holiday season, the rest of the time in hotels is a lot of empty seats. During this period rent a room with significant discounts, and travel agencies do not miss the opportunity to provide its customers with "hot" vouchers at heavily reduced prices. Of course, this does not affect the quality of service offered. The rest on such flights is called a chip trip. The specifics of these tours are limited time, but the closer the departure date, the cheaper the ticket, so the customer always wins.

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Launched just recently, in early August, the project FAN TRIP is an aggregator of cheap tickets. The scheme of work is simple: you find an interesting option, buying tour package and go on a trip. However, the creators of the project want to go beyond the Internet-shop of travel, and positioning themselves as the club of cheap tours in which around the actual search and sale of vouchers built up the whole infrastructure: the ability to search for travel affiliate program, offline club events, savings and bonus system.


Rest — it is really close, only a hand stretch

the history of the chiptrip


The first website specializing in providing such services, was founded in 1998 lastminute.com. Today it remains the largest chip trip-operator, selling over 800,000 tickets a year. Service lastminute.com has offices in almost all countries of the world and is available to residents of the States of the CIS.

However, in the Russian market chip trips also has not gone unnoticed. In 2004, a LiveJournal community dedicated to hot vouchers, grew up in a travel Agency Cheaptrip. Behind him opened up services such as Update and Tortenik.

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The design of the portal in the best traditions of modern startups are quite "airy" and "vebdvanol", but not without oddities — for example, a large part of the main page fantrip.ru is large, but not very functional permablok which offers to register, duplicating the registration link at the top right, and tells about the main pieces of the project — the selection of tours, of the impending search of fellow travelers and discounts on tours. It's just a description, without hyperlinks, so you can safely skip — block closes and the image immediately takes a more functional view.

Now on the front page, just under the logo, we see a table with the list of "hot" rounds. This is very convenient: we do not need to pass through extra links to navigate to use the basic functionality of the site.

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The table contains basic information about tours: destination, departure date, hotel name number of stars, as well as the price in dollars and rubles. Located on top of the filters to select a country, period of stay, departure date, price range, and "culling" maloizvestnye hotels. In the right corner, just below the filters, there is a switch between "full" and "economical" version of the table interface: it allows you to remove the pictures of the hotels.

How it works


As the basic profile of the project still aggregator burning stages, it is important not only quality but also quantity. FAN TRIP uses a database of vouchers wwt.su processing 80% of offers in the market from operators in the main resorts of the world.

So, for example, I want to take a week off abroad in a five star hotel, but not willing to pay more than$ 500 per person. Putting the appropriate settings, choose the most attractive option for us, and...

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...click on name to go to the tour details screen. Yet she, alas, is not much different from the table. Here we can find out the minimum number of travelers for this tour, to get detailed information about how and where to get your hands on your tour package. Subsequently, it would be nice to see more detailed information on accommodation and places where to go.

There is a button "book a tour". Click on it will take a special form that you make a booking the stay. Tour package, including tickets and booking confirmation the hotel will wait for you in the the Moscow office FanTrip at Taganskaya, Verkhnyaya Radischevskaya str., 7, building 1. The office is still the only one, though, as I understand it, there are plans to open new offices — but while only in Moscow.

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In the tour package usually includes: accommodation, flights, transfers.
Fuel surcharge, visa, medical insurance are paid separately.


Along with the tour package you promise to show all the charm of a club project on the level of service that a Cup of coffee is a minimum for the honored guest, because you are now a member of the club.

To book a tour is possible without registration, but authorized users get discounts and can participate in the accumulation of points, which later can spend on, for example, gifts the cosy club store.

Authorization is made on modern patterns: you can use the information in your mailbox or page in social service. The website authorizes clients Google, Yandex, Rambler, Mail.ru, Yahoo, Vkontakte, Facebook, Twitter, LiveJournal (a place for Habra is, alas, not found).

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Subscribe to tours


The second important feature of the website is trephining: subscribe to hot deals. Successful chiptrip is time to grab the best ticket. To do this, club members can sign up to receive fresh information on the interest of their tours. The follow button is right below the entrance to the private office.

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In the form of a subscription you can specify which tour you are interested in and how you would like to be notified (of the available alerts by email and via Twitter).

FAN TRIP plans advanced interaction with social services. Now it is limited to references to representation of the service on Twitter, and Facebook, but soon we are promised to enter the search function of travel among the members of the club.

Sharing experience


As FAN TRIP is not simply the sale of vouchers, and a full club, communication between its members is not limited to online. The development plan includes regular meetings in a cozy place Travel Café, which seasoned travelers will present their travel and beginners will be able to ask questions and hear useful tips from travel professionals.



Announcements of meetings will be announced in the online representations and in the future, the "events" website.

Instead of an epilogue


So, who needs "another chiptrip project"? Yes, I think everyone who can afford time on vacation in interesting discount or simply be broken, for example, a week in Turkey in 4* hotel together for 16 thousand flights. Even work fulltime is not an insurmountable obstacle, if you wish. The ability to spontaneously host a small holiday — priceless.
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  • Thanks to the subscriptions from your personal account, you will learn about the interesting for you the offers as soon as they appear.
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  • And using points and affiliate programs, for each spent for the purchase of rounds for a hundred dollars you have growing club discount.
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  • Affiliate program entitle the party Commission from the tour, purchased by the invited users. Enough to attract several new customers and your own purchases cheaper by the thousand. Remember the old commercials — "I sell friends"? ;)
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  • and, of course, offline events at Travel Café to consolidate the club atmosphere — what is a club without meetings?

Traveler definitely will not go vnaklade — the more such projects in Runet, the better and the more likely to go into a great trip for a reasonable price. In the end, nothing prevents simply subscribe to need tours and wait for among them will be an offer you can't refuse.
Article based on information from habrahabr.ru

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