Joobili Provides Smart Travel Destination Recommendations


Name: Joobili

Quick Pitch: Joobili offers travel inspirations specific to when you want to go.

Genius Idea: You have two weeks of vacation left this year, and you really want to try something new with your friend, family, or significant other. Maybe you're a culture buff and want to take in some amazing local culture halfway across the world, or perhaps you love adventure. How do you find out about and choose great festivals or destinations? Joobili takes your preferences and time-frame and gives you an answer.

In fact, Joobili gives you several dozen potential answers. Without registering, you can choose a time frame and be shown a plethora of different travel choices. Everything from Oktoberfest in Germany to the Dissonanze music festival in Italy is detailed with Flickr images, Google Maps, user reviews, and even a list of people who are going to the event or location.

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These results can be filtered even deeper, based on a map view, the type of event, country, keyword, or tag. The ways to play with Joobili's recommendations is extensive, and the imagery and information is impressive. You can even purchase a plane ticket or rent a car from the website, which is likely part of Joobili's revenue model.

The community features are solid as well. Users can create profiles, set up their preferences (which helps filter travel recommendations even more), tag and favorite events, upload photo albums, and post travel questions through the Joobili forums. GoListing an event means you will be attending while WentListing an event means you've been there and done that. Being able to see where everyone has gone or went helps foster a sense that Joobili is truly a community.

It's still pretty new, so the recommendations aren't comprehensive yet. Primarily, they focus on European destinations. Hopefully they'll add more event organizers and organizations to help fill in the gaps so those of who who love Asia, South America, or elsewhere can get travel inspiration as well. But as it stands, Joobili is a slick way to find, share, and start planning your next vacation.

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