Dear Nigel,
thank you very much for your (honest) reply.
I would love to take the opportunity and talk to you (maybe in private) about the trials and problems you faced with your project if you are interested?
You never stop learning and talking to others always helps.
Having the best idea can result in failure because of so many other reasons that are by far not technical or related to the service you offer.
We are two guys who spend almost all their lives in the travel industry.
Looking at the trends and sitting on the table with the big players (from Expedia to all the major airlines) is part of our daily business.
There are dozens of websites taking advantage of the sharing economy offering trips, tours, hotels, private accommodation, transportation..
Where we see potential are nieche markets, not yet fully covered countries/cities and emerging destinations (South Eastern Europe as one example), different languages (German, Russian..) which could give us an advantage. Doing all in one is hard but focusing on these little sweet spots could be enough to have a functioning sustainable business model.
The idea we have consists of many parts and we surely don't want to offer private accommodation like Airbnb does it or start only with a review site like TripAdvisor/Yelp.
The best thing would be to take the best out of these sources, incorporate them and extend with our ideas. Show unique things other don't in our way. Our key point would be local people writing about spots that are not the typical things you'd find on such travel websites.
We will never know if it'll be a failure or success if we don't try, but be sure that we are prepared for a slap in the face.
The Destination guide is more or less just a little part of the puzzle but an important one
since we plan the destination pages to be some sort of HUB/Archive for all the related content.
The content should be "localized" and shown on the corresponding parts of the app.
Eg when someone creates a tipp for Vienna, the CPT tipp should be displayed on the destination page for Vienna inside the view/section tipps for vienna.
In best case everything should happen automatically so that for example I have a CRED form where the user indicates where the content belongs to (just an address, city or country).
Same would mean for other things like Bookable products (Woocommerce Bookings) and other CPT's.
Would I need to set up a custom post type for the destination pages?
Geocode the content to be able to map it throughout the system?
Create a continent, country, city taxonomy?
Or could the Destination pages be custom archive pages of a taxonomy?
I just don't know in which direction I should go because I can't see it clearly.
Until this localization part is done I can't move forward because everything depends on this.
Would love to hear your expertise on this?
Thanks in advance!
Best regards,
Dorian