🚫 OTAs Suck ✅ Building a Book Direct, Decentralized, Open-OTA ➜ 🚀 Operators Get Direct Bookings ✈️ Travelers Get Rewards for Booking Direct 💰 Anyone Who Refers Travelers Owns Them & the Revenue Stream They Generate.

🐥 I'm a startup founder, launching a direct booking travel platform for the AI agent era.

Why? Today, Online Travel Agent (OTA) commissions are draining 10's of billions of dollars out of the travel ecosystem. They enrich "Big Tech" and "Big Travel", at the expense of everyone else. I know because I helped them do it. For years I was a super-affiliate of Expedia and other big OTAs. I fed $100m+ in hotel bookings to the OTAs, generating $10m in commissions, but adding little of value to the ecosystem.

Now, I'm building a new travel distribution platform and protocol that enables travelers and their AI agents bypass the OTA middlemen and book direct.

👇 Want to be notified when we launch? Leave a comment in the featured post below titled "AI-powered community", or reach out and connect! 

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Previously...

🐣 I co-founded a venture studio. We launched 3 notable ventures:
 
1️⃣ 3Genius International. Network of travel booking websites. $100M+ in bookings and $10M+ in gross profit.

2️⃣ Moola.com. Multiplayer game. Grew virally to 450k community members, $7.6M economy. PCWorld's “Best Places to Waste Time on the Web”.
 
3️⃣ Locationary. Local data and community platform. Rewarded users for crowdsourcing local business data (eg. like for Apple Maps). $4.5M in funding. Acquired by Apple.

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🧠 Current Interests: AI, community, machine learning, travel, fintech, loyalty rewards, web3 / tokens / blockchain, creator & influencer economy, social commerce, marketplaces, network effects.

Arlen Ritchie

Passions Network, Inc.

Passions Network is something you rarely see on the internet...a unique concept. The network consists of hundreds of individual niche online dating / social networking sites. Each site can stand-alone with all the features found in mainstream dating / social networking sites, while also being part of an underlying network. Passions Network allows members to create a single account, and then pick and choose the sites that match their 'passions' in life, thereby creating their own highly personalized 'a la carte' menu of dating sites. This concept has worked to bring people together for friendships, relationships and marriages. https://passionsnetwork.com/

President

Niche Ad Network

Niche Ad Network connects online dating Publishers and online dating Advertisers via niche ad channels. Rather than dealing with high-cost ad systems that require complex manipulation of individual ads to try and push them in front of specific groups (but not in front of others), Niche Ad Network makes ad delivery easy. Publishers identify the theme of their site and grab the appropriate Niche Ad Channel from Niche Ad Network. Advertisers interested in marketing to a specific niche market simply place their ads into the corresponding Niche Ad Channel and their ads are seen by their target demographic. With 90 niche and mainstream dating ad channels (so far), it is easy for Publishers and Advertisers to connect via Niche Ad Network. https://www.nicheadnetwork.com/

Owner

A Greater Date Inc.

A Greater Date was one of the first large categorized online dating directories to delve into more unusual niche dating options, while also providing the demographic online dating categories expected in every online dating directory.

Cupid by day. Asleep by night.
 Online dating entrepreneur involved in the online dating market since 2002, with a focus on connecting individuals via a niche dating ad network, niche dating directories & niche dating sites. I own & run Passions Network, a network of over 260+ niche dating sites, and I am the owner of Niche Ad Network. I work with virtually every online dating site either directly or via affiliate networks. I am interested in establishing and/or strengthening connections with other online dating partners, where the traffic from my network of sites can be leveraged in mutually beneficial relationships.

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