Reimagine Tourism in Post-covid Era

Ke Lin
Storius

It’s believed to be “the best travelling experience if we have a local friend, so we don’t miss out on any meaningful spot, and enjoy the most authentic experience.” Storius is a platform that brings two groups of people together, travelers and storytellers from the local community. We are building a map with short audio stories that are location-based, and crowd-sourced, enabling the two groups to connect deeper on the way. Since June 2020 till now, we have collected over 700 stories from more than 20 countries including Bangladesh, China, Thailand, recruiting more than 200 storytellers. We have developed a prototype for UI/UX testing, in line with human-centred design and a web-app to display consolidated backend databases. We have already secured a seed grant of 100,000 HKD from the Hong Kong CyberPort Creative Micro Fund. Our revenue model is first to gather a community of travelers and storytellers, and then to price business for advertising. With our PR and marketing progress, we have developed a few business leads that are keen to put in money for sponsored content. The next step is to build a mobile application in the Android environment to compliment user testing and to bootstrap app users acquisition. Meanwhile, we will follow up closely with our business leads and continue to develop more in the pipeline. Storius is born during covid, with our belief of people’s craving for traveling, local SME’s and tourism needs of recovery, and trending audio industry. We hope to disrupt the tourism industry, one story at a time!

About me!

Ke Lin

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Youth Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation Consultant, UNDP Bangkok Regional Hub COO & Co-founder, Storius Linka joined the UNDP Bangkok Regional Hub on December 2016. Since then, she has been coordinating national youth entrepreneurship and innovation activities with more than 20 countries under Youth Co:Lab in Asia-Pacific region. Before joining UNDP, she worked as the business development manager for a social enterprise in Hong Kong called Inter Cultural Education for 2 years. She ran programmes such Social Innovation Trip and Asia Pacific Youth Exchange with young people from all over Asia. She has been playing an active role in grass-root led entrepreneur ecosystem in China and Thailand as the facilitator of Startup Weekend and Asia Pacific Youth Exchange. She has a master degree in Interpreting and Translation in Hong Kong Polytechnic University (English and Chinese). Since June 2020, together with two of her friends, she co-founded a community based tourism startuped, Storius.

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