Partner with Hackglobe to Pioneer Minimalist Travel Solutions: The Future of Travel

Carrying extra luggage is a daunting task for many travellers. Adventure folks, in particular, prefer to travel hyper-efficiently. There’s a movement that correlates with this philosophy. Search it, Minimalist Travel, that which aims to minimize the number of essential items you have on you, and focus on the absolute essentials. A subset of Minimalist Living, where the ideal is to own as little items as you possibly can, giving you space to focus on your lived experience.

Take Rolf Potts, a renowned adventurer, for example - who took it to the extreme by moving around with no bags at all. He only carried a few essential items in his pocket, which gave new meaning to true minimalist travel. How about Francine Jay, a travel enthusiast, who showed how ridiculous it is to travel with excessive luggage by ditching unnecessary items, and was able to go anywhere with ease?

While we admire the ability of Rolf and Francine to travel extremely lightly, we concede that most times we’re often in need of a little “extra” to spice up our experiences. Extra being camping gear, kayaks, wetsuits and masks for skiing or scuba diving.

Now, a new global travel solution is here to let you enjoy the exhilarating experience of minimalist travel yet still enjoy the perks of extra luggage.

What’s more, Hackglobe—the global relocation, forwarding and storage solution — has something in store for travel and tourism companies. Let’s find out what!

There are several challenges tied to carrying extra luggage and wanting extra space. One, of course, is navigating unfamiliar terrain. This can be a significant challenge especially when moving through crowded airports, getting used to new public transportation systems, or trekking or travelling long distances over a long period of time. Often, this leads to mental fatigue from anxiety and an overload of new information.

It is common knowledge that many airlines and other transportation systems have weight and size restrictions that you must comply with. This can be an interesting challenge for those seeking to comfortably engage in specialized travel activity and make full use of their trips. Even bringing back Omiage for family leads to overpacking. Either way, it leads to added costs and stress at custom checks. Especially when turning up with restricted goods and items like liquids, electronics, or others.

Those with mobility issues or back problems are often at higher risk of injury and may avoid travel completely thanks to the stress of handling added baggage. In an unfamiliar terrain and when rushed for time to catch a flight, train, or bus, what’s better than having a chunk of your custom fit gear forwarded to a convenient spot at your travel destination where that activity will be enjoyed without having to pay for rentals that don’t fit.

We travellers would rather bring our specially searched for, shortlisted items that fit our specific needs, such as camping tents, kayaks, wetsuits and masks with custom prescription lens, but may find it tedious to haul them into airports and across the globe.

For example, if we intend to go camping in South America, Patagonia, where the legendary mountain ranges are, we may as well decide to forego our favorite camping gear for rentals because of the impracticality, inconvenience, and restrictions that accompany extra luggage if we wanted to continue our travels to a few more cities after, thus creating redundant luggage. Rentals may also create lackluster experiences and  result in a missed opportunity for full immersion, which is almost always, what we did not pay for.

You might be asking if there is a solution to address these aspects of travel. A solution that maximizes our time, opportunity and cost.

Well, there is a solution. Hackglobe, a new relocation forwarding and storage aggregator, which plans to connect the world of forwarding and storage suppliers through Distributed Tour Routes (DTRs) such that travellers with a lifelong dream of exploring the world freely can travel minimally without extra hindrance and compromise.

The integrated platform aims to benefit smaller operators and suppliers in the tourism and transportation industry, allowing them to maximize the use of existing assets and resources. Optimizing utility through the creation of new revenue streams and introduction of new user segments, all by bringing Hackglobe’s users to the door.  

Hackglobe will provide support to Suppliers so they’re able to monetize unused office space and store traveller’s well-loved gear until they arrive at their destination for collection. Providing an opportunity to interested businesses to extend or build on current travel products and diversify your revenue streams.

As the local expert, Suppliers can recommend the best and most personal travel experiences catering to Traveler preferences, whether they be tickets to top attractions, museums, or off-the-beaten-track tours, a string of quality local food places that best represent the city or advise on the cultural nuances of the city, which is what Suppliers are already doing.

Hackglobe secures distributed tour and transport routes across the world so that travellers who are on the road over long periods can live and move around unencumbered.

We are providing Transport and Storage Suppliers with a real-time and automated solution that enables easy management of a traveller’s assets that will travel based on pre-scheduled routes intercontinentally whilst complying with local customs regulations.

Surprise bag audits and verification processes from an identity and bag inventory end help ensure transfers between Supplier-to-Supplier and the Traveller mitigate the risk of crimes like identity theft and drug trafficking. This supports a meddle-free, non-fungible and thus secure experience for all parties involved.

DTRs consist of Ground, Sea and Air transport with predictable arrivals and departures. Well-run tour buses, cruise liners, lesser used rail services, riverboats, and small private planes can all contribute to reduced carbon emissions from ad-hoc logistics requests from Hackglobe’s baggage relocation orders, while increasing their visibility amongst new clientele.

Travellers, with this new found service, would then be in a position to enjoy increased global mobility, continuously and for as long as they wish, where the only carry luggage they keep is lightweight and 100% relevant, up until the point they need to make a switch to more appropriate gear, that might come with a change of season or environment, this all depends on the Traveler’s planned trips.

What type of travelers does Hackglobe intend to engage, you might wonder? They are experience-seekers often hoping to engage in novel activities, like touring at ski destinations, destination marathons, cross-country cycling, festivals in obscure locations and so forth. Clothing or gear for these activities are often sacrificed when engaging in longer periods of travel when mobility is considered.

That passion and excitement for engaging in these activities and sports; the desire for full immersion in different environments; our quest to experience and appreciate what the world has to offer; the custom gear we select to engage with that activity, often land us in a space of having to accommodate the inefficient and the costly experience of traveling back home before the trip just to lug extra gear to our intended destination, if it was worth it. With Hackglobe, this would no longer be necessary.

Participating transport and tourism businesses, cruise operators, private train companies and tour agencies will enjoy the following benefits if signed up with Hackglobe’s network of partners:

1. Reduced CAC (Customer Acquisition Costs) through Co-marketing Opportunities i.e. Affiliate and Referral. Hackglobe can be a channel for exposure to our targeted user segments.

2. Access to aggregated travel data which provide insight into customer preferences and other emerging trends that can help businesses adapt more easily to constantly-changing consumer tastes and an evolving industry landscape.

3. Strengthened partnerships and service interoperability on the Hackglobe network increases the convenience and attractiveness of long-term personal and business travel. This improves brand recognition and increases trust.

4. Becoming a First-mover with Hackglobe can help in establish your Brand’s stance on inclusivity and building a brighter future for Travel, opening up room to lead and set standards and protocols that others comply with and gaining influence in the process, which leads to PR and Branding benefits.

5. Inspired by the UN’s Sustainability Development Goals, this type of innovation focuses on delineating luxury travel and travel convenience and attempts to integrate thought processes like reinvigorating and improving the quality of life of local communities by tapping into their local experiences, and helping them travel similarly.

6. Hackglobe can also support you in rewarding your employees. The benefit is two-fold, by using Hackglobe, we help you, your employees and your clients to live fuller lives and travel long-term, perhaps kicking off items on the bucket list. Promoting greater satisfaction and higher engagement overall.

7. Your support and the continuous feedback loop contributes to the robustness of the system which helps to provide assurance to the overall integrity of the network, leading to good network effects.

We will take stringent measures to ensure that your team is well-equipped to carry through on the promise of safety and security of bags travelling on DTRs. Measures implemented throughout the system aims to make sure partners, bags and travellers are protected from the acts of bad actors.

Our past rendezvouses with sustainability encourage us to approach Hackglobe with a more flexible approach when scheduling pick-ups and drop-offs. We lean towards well-travelled and predictable routes so that carbon emissions generated are negligible. Ad hoc, last-mile trips are avoided to close the gap between Traveller and Supplier.

Among the perks of partnering with Hackglobe include:

1. a high minimum commission rate per bag, aggregated and paid quarterly;

2. the ability to forecast your earnings through an easy-to-use analytics suite;

3. access to a dedicated support system and,

4. resources for better cross-marketing.

All these perks culminate into an opportunity for our partners to expand their business and construct new business lines.

Really, travelling with too many bags is hectic. Not only does it make your trip unpredictable, it distracts you from the sole purpose of your trip; feeling Alive.

Getting out of the plane knowing that everything you need is catered for can be so liberating! With Hackglobe, travellers will drop off their extra gear and pick it up where they plan it to be, when they need.

While the rest of the passengers are standing at the baggage carrousel waiting for their extra luggage, Hackglobe users will be out of the airport in a jiffy. No heavy bags, no arguments, no trying to watch three bags at once, no worries about excess luggage weight fees. Such a massive drop in the stress levels!

Now, Hackglobe is looking to work with your company to contribute to our network of routes, where multi-modal transport and storage options are operationalized, streamlined, and become viable options of transport for orders.

Order volumes may still be low at the outset, but that’s due to the newness of the network. In time, this will change and everyone will be able to tap into this new way of travel. One where travel experiences can be fully had without compromise, and Home can be a place where our comforts are. And that means leveraging the Hackglobe network to live in the world as a Global Citizen, boundlessly. No longer constrained by one location, one way of thinking, or one home.

Partner Teams will receive access to Training Materials, Crisis Handling Best Practices and access to our Partner Mobile App and future Route Management Platform that will help align the team on incoming bags.

Join us in supporting travellers in their quest to become themselves again!