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    How a new travel startup is hoping to inspire you to travel

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-- -- Whether it's it's -- New York city's time square for the first time.

I think on the beach somewhere but what people don't look forward to -- -- of figuring out the logistics that attract.

That's but the new startup -- why -- that to change its.

You go on wonderful eyesight putting your budget -- an interest slight teach outdoors venture or history.

And he'll be given options some places to travel that you probably wouldn't have thought at.

Want to fly is.

-- -- site right which allows you to search for travel in a fun way we are our goal is to make the experts especially for travel as far as travel itself answer three simple questions when you -- -- what are your interest would like to do when you go there how much you have to spend how much do things.

And having answer those questions we give you results and we gave you inspiration.

When -- a friendly so how about.

Miami or how about -- -- -- -- -- -- And along what co founders -- Leno and desired.

He's betting that want their flight suggestions.

Will be places that you personally like.

And that their videos -- information on those places will help make things less confusing.

So.

The moment you decided to take a trend and you're not sure exactly where you're going here.

Faced with the overwhelming amount and for me to talk to friends you know maybe there -- magazines.

Thank you trust -- you -- preferences different guidebooks there's massive amounts of information on the -- But -- where can you go and say you know this is who I am as a person this is what -- like.

This recommendation engine is based -- algorithm one that seems inherently on personal.

But Jorge disagrees.

What we've done is we've aggregated information.

About places and see that in a way that we can compare to your interest so.

Once we have that information in a way that we can easily search and write a person can actually say.

Highlight food or -- like history -- landmarks and given that information we can match that.

You know that those interests to places that have.

A high level of relevance to that.

Jorge who left Morgan Stanley to start this business and Christine is -- who already own -- consulting found together are avid travelers.

-- is originally from South America and sari was born in Poland's.

You gotta come here and you start from scratch -- When we and -- -- -- not so there weren't a lot of opportunities.

For us which is why.

You know kind of seeing you know our journey and the fact that you know my parents both -- about the school.

And got bachelor's.

And -- -- -- you know working hard to make kind of a better life that's.

-- very much in line.

Entrepreneur mentality.

Creating something from scratch.

I would say that the -- that spirit.

Spirit of starting your own thing and battling the big guy and the against the -- that's a very American hands -- and I learned.

Coming here from from a lot of my peers at school and -- from.

You know my experience -- work with my colleagues -- so that if they learned here and provided because it's it's really funds through equal way of working and building a career.

And since launching last August they've already received over a million dollars in funding and already partnering with big name brands like -- and hobby honest.

They say their business model -- based solely on booking trips but more on hyper targeted ads.

In the future may be.

You know as more people -- one of my name is -- people trusted maybe it will.

-- -- lean a little more towards looking at that point there right now we're working more brands and advertisers.

I was forgetting Q had driven wonder -- says their intent is to inspire travel.

Not to -- brands.

I think the way we see any sort of -- involvement.

On want to -- is.

Always going to be in a way that's natural to the user experience we never want this about you know a better or -- that any world side.

So far the teams seemed to be having fun of their offices in downtown Manhattan.

Even bringing in a well known travel quote to describe their experiences so far.

Some of the vaccination it's about the journey.

You know if you're kind of on the journey alone and it's not a funds.

And a group of others that.

And for more on this story gonna wonder -- dot com and if you know an -- -- -- our email us at young guns at Fox Business stock -- In New York I'm Christina Scott.

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