From travellers, to travellers
Every traveller is a distribution channel.
Discover boutique stays through the trips real travellers took, book in one tap, and the hotel pays 8% — not 25%.
The insight
Travel discovery has fundamentally changed. People find their next trip through people, communities and creators — not through ad auctions. Voylari is the booking layer for that new behaviour.
Discovery and booking happen in different places. Trust, attribution and the guest relationship leak away at every hop.
A real traveller's trip and the booking live in the same app. The recommendation is honest, the hotel keeps the guest, and the creator gets paid.
The model
Everyone wins.
For the traveller
Free
Discovery through trip plans from people who actually went — not ads, not pay-to-rank. Browsing and planning cost nothing.
For the creator
2% cash
Real money to their bank every time their trip plan drives a booking — reliably, because the booking happens on-platform.
For the hotel
8%
Direct guests at 8%, not the OTAs' 15–25%. No listing fee, no monthly fee, no rate parity — they owe nothing until Voylari delivers a paying guest.
How it works
One loop, turning.
Every shared trip becomes a new way for a hotel to be discovered — and a new way for a traveller to earn.
Share
A traveller shares a trip they actually took. Free to make.
Own
Publishing quietly makes it theirs — authorship they own, no crypto in sight.
Discover
Others find places through people, not ads. No pay-to-rank.
Book
They book the stay right inside the plan, in a tap.
Earn
Money splits automatically — 2% cash to the sharer.
Grow
Every shared trip becomes a new distribution channel.
Early traction
A pilot forming in Portugal.
Illustrative pre-seed figures — believable for an MVP in our beachhead market, not audited metrics.
1,240
Travellers on the waitlist
Portugal beachhead
310+
Trip plans ready to share
from real trips
28
Boutique hotels in onboarding
Algarve · Lisbon · Porto
9
Founding-partner hotels signed
8% · no fees
€1.3M
Year-1 GMV run-rate target
300 bookings/mo
Founding-partner pipeline
Quinta dos Gansos
Évora
Casa do Vale
Sintra
Palácio Azul
Lisbon
Sagres Sea House
Sagres
Douro Vista
Pinhão
Lagos Blue
Lagos
Creator economy
A trip plan is an asset.
You may not have an apartment to put on Airbnb — but a trip plan from a trip you already took can earn every time someone books from it. The more real trips you share, and the better their reviews, the more you earn.
A weekend plan that catches on
€80–150 / mo
A few well-reviewed plans
€300–500 / mo
A trusted creator with a following
€1,500+ / mo
In their words
Creators, hotels, travellers.
I'd already sent this exact itinerary to friends a dozen times over WhatsApp. Now the same recommendation earns me money — and my friends still get the trip I actually loved.
Marta Rocha
Creator · Lisbon
Booking.com took a quarter of every stay and I never learned who the guest was. With Voylari the guest arrives through a real recommendation, I keep the relationship, and I pay 8%.
Inês, Quinta dos Gansos
Founding-partner hotel · Évora
I used to screenshot TikToks, cross-check on Google, then book on some clunky site. Here the trip and the booking are the same trusted place. That alone made me switch.
João Pereira
Traveller · Porto
The moat
Why Booking.com can't just copy this.
We own the hotel relationship
Affiliate platforms and AI planners route the booking to Booking.com — they live on Booking.com's terms and can be cut tomorrow. Voylari signs hotels directly, so we depend on no one. That's survival and control of our own distribution.
Attribution that actually pays
Affiliate earnings hang on cookies and windows — travellers browse for days and book later, and the creator's money evaporates. Voylari's booking is on-platform and attribution is written on-chain, so the creator gets paid reliably.
Trust over ads
Only travellers who actually used a trip plan can rate it. Good, honest plans earn more; manipulative ones lose reputation. Booking.com could copy the commission — it can't copy an earned, reviewable community.
Web3, made invisible
Nobody books a holiday because they want blockchain. The wallet is made from your email, money moves through your bank. The chain only makes ownership and earnings provable — the UX stays a normal, beautiful travel app.
Why Portugal first
Portugal first: many independent hotels here still lean entirely on Booking.com — some have no real website, or one that bounces you straight to an OTA. It's a market where a direct, guest-friendly booking layer is genuinely needed, and where we can validate the loop before expanding across Europe.
From travellers, to travellers.
Discover boutique stays through the trips real people took — and book them in one trusted place.