Jetzy

Jetzy — Travelers Connect is a social-media/tech start-up that is designing the world’s first user-to-user social networking app for travelers. The app connects travelers with other travelers and locals in their immediate area and provides free travel rewards to users simply for using the app.

The app allows user to create profiles on which they identify their interests from a number of different filters--such as foodies, wine-os, beach bums, hikers, and many more! Travelers looking for local, expert advice can reach out to other users who have identified themselves according to their interests, ensuring the best travel experience possible.

Users also have the opportunity to earn a variety of rewards via the app’s reward program. As people use and engage with the app--posting pictures, chatting with friends, checking in at locations--they earn and can accumulate points that they can redeem for a number of our incredible rewards. From spa vouchers, paddle board lessons, dinners for two, hotel stays, and plane tickets to all-expenses-paid trips to international destinations, we are offering an endless number of enviable rewards users can earn for free!

The co-founders in this venture are experts in their respective fields, with over twenty years of experience between the two. Ty Sawyer is a multi-award winning travel media expert, content engagement specialist, editor, writer, photographer and a proven entrepreneur. He is an expert commentator on the Travel Channel, has hosted a popular travel-based TV show, consulted as a media and branding specialist for ultra high-end media start-ups, numerous tourism boards, and founded a content-driven digital application technology company. Shama Zehra is a serial entrepreneur and has built several successful businesses in technology, financial services and fashion space. An alum of Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, Shama’s entrepreneurial vision and success has been the subject of cover stories on Forbes, Crains, and several other publications.

Read more about the company and app at: https://www.jetzyapp.com/ .