TripUp.com - A Place to Find Travel Buddies

TripUp.com is an interactive travel community that aims to bring travelers together from all over the world to collaborate for vacations, backpacking, or outings. It is totally free and easy to sign up. The site is testimonial-rich from large companies such as CNN, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, giving the site some good credibility. One can link up with people who have already traveled to the locations they wish to travel to and get first hand advice, or they can meet up with like-minded individuals once they get to their destination; and when its all done they can post videos and pictures to the site.

Our social network of travelers provides a fun and easy way to meet new people in your neighborhood or around the globe, discover new places, obtain candid advice about your destination, and connect with friends by sharing travel stories, videos and photos. Put away the stale travel books and stop wasting your time with dull online travel guides, TripUp gets you connected before you depart and it's absolutely free!

This website could be extremely effective and useful for people within this niche market, and it clearly has the potential to be used worldwide. Airline, hotel and car rental companies also would definitely want to advertise on a site like this.

Could this ever be bigger than just garnering some ads from the hotel and travel companies? Does this have to potential to earn HUGE dollars from those companies?