Arrivedo: A New Online Tool for World Travelers and Hotels

By Jackie Cohen

Travelers looking for an authentic experience can get individually curated neighborhood guides for hotels worldwide with Arrivedo, the world wide web’s first platform exclusively for hotel recommendations. The new platform is giving hoteliers a voice to contribute to their guest’s experience both inside and outside of their own doors.

The website recently announced its global launch into cyberspace as a site to organize and curate Neighborhood Guides for every single hotel in the world. This new feature is giving Airbnb a run for their money, increasing the intimacy of the manager and guest relationship, similar to that of the rent-a-room giant.

A gigantic task, indeed, Arrivedo is determined to provide these tips and tricks to visitors from around the world, specific to individual hotel’s neighborhoods, enhancing their experience. The services help users avoid touristy neighborhoods and give them true local’s recommendations.

A Mission to Please

With a clear mission in mind, Arrivedo is working to determine top hotels around the world with unique hosting styles, making their guests feel at home around their neighborhood.

Arrivedo is growing rapidly, adding new content every single day. So far, the site has complete 250 hotel neighborhood guides. This number is only accounting those hotels who have submitted their guides through Arrivedo’s platform.

Hotels have also curated guides via their own technology, sending in and publish their recommendations for unique neighborhood hints. The number of contributions by hotels from this method has reached over 5,000, with submissions from 60 cities around the world, including San Francisco, Rome, Madrid, Toronto, London, Mexico City, Lima, and Cusco.

With content-generating at an astonishing rate, the number of guides is expected to increase with each passing day.

Arrived0’s unique approach is assisting hotels, both small and large, build a reputation as local hosts, not just managerial staff. The nuance technology ranks the hotel’s Neighborhood Guide to establish the best activities for guests around this hotel or that one.

Compared to its competition, Arrivedo is helping and empowering travelers find ideal neighborhood experiences when booking a hotel, adding a new element in their decision-making process.

Once that guest has arrived, they already have crafted recommendation guides for the neighborhood they’ve found themselves in. Right after check-in, guests are granted convenient access to these guides on their smartphones.

The goal is to have an individually crafted guide for every single hotel in the world, is that possible?

A Network of Experts

This new online platform is filling a gaping hole in this industry. Arrivedo is providing hotels the ability to provide local experiences to their growing millennial clientele, and to travelers who want more authentic experiences than their older counterparts.

The guides are providing guests with recommendations to help them get the most out of their stays, and once enough are collected, past guest reviews will also be displayed alongside the individual guides.

Once the previous guests’ comments are displayed on the website, Arrivedo will be providing a keen sense of transparency to their customers, something many hotels and Airbnb hosts simply do not provide.

This new centralized location for honest answers is a solution to the sometimes lacking answers of a hotel’s concierge desk.

Arrivedo is a New Approach

Connecting travel writers, hoteliers, neighborhood business owners, and travelers themselves, Arrivedo is a new approach to increasingly popular authentic experiences for adventurous guests. No need to print maps anymore, hotels can simply provide access to these well designed, true, and tested guides to their guests.

According to a survey completed by the site itself, Arrivedo is saving hotel desks approximately 45 minutes per guest, simply granting them the gift of Arrivedo.

“Writing for hotels on Arrivedo is a great way to understand the local destination from a hotel’s perspective and then share that experience with travelers. The flexibility and ability to work all over the world with Arrivedo make them the perfect partner,” says Rosemary Kimani, a Digital Nomad from Chicago, Illinois, and writer for Arrivedo.

Specifically Developed, Incredibly Detailed

Local tips, insider secrets, and the privilege of a locals’ recommendations. Arrivedo is filling an information gap experienced by travelers for generations.

Now, you do not have to know someone to get those special tips and secrets. With the handcrafted neighborhood guide provided by Arrivedo, hoteliers are pleasing guests, concierge desks are saving time, guests are in on all the secrets, and neighborhoods are being experienced to the fullest by all of their visitors.

Whether you are looking for a bite to eat, a full-fledged feast, a quick cocktail, or a worthy pastime, each neighborhood guide will be chock-full of local’s recommendations.

Why Arrivedo is Different

Alonso Franco, a hotel entrepreneur and Arrivedo co-founder from Peru, explains why his platform is different from existing ones. “We help hotels appeal to the millennial traveler currently attracted to Airbnb,” Franco said.

With such dedication to existing travel sites, Arrivedo has already made great strides in attracting young travelers from around the world to utilize the resources found on their website.

Many times, visitors miss out on incredible local businesses, activities, parks, or other aspects of a city simply because they did not know about it. By being provided experiences for all visitors guests will be as pleased as hotel managers all around the world.

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