The Startup Innovation Award

2024

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PERS by eXplorins

eXplorins

eXplorins is transforming the tourism and experience industries with PERS (Phygital Experience Rewards System), a state-of-the-art blockchain-based SaaS platform. PERS is designed to boost user engagement, enhance brand loyalty, and drive marketing and sales efforts, all while placing a strong emphasis on sustainability. This innovative platform enables businesses in the Tourism and Experience sectors to incentivize positive user behaviors across social, economic, and environmental dimensions by rewarding responsible and impactful decisions/actions.

PERS features a decentralised API, which ensures seamless multichannel connectivity and interoperability between partners and industries. This creates a unified ecosystem for reward-based interactions, enhancing every stage of the user journey. By integrating sustainability into the reward system, PERS allows users to earn rewards for eco-friendly actions - such as using public transport, reducing resource consumption, and supporting local businesses - as boosting revenue and loyalty by rewarding user interactions across channels. This not only aligns companies with contemporary sustainability goals but also drives brand loyalty and creates a positive triple impact.

Our subscription-based model empowers companies to leverage phygital experiences to promote their brands while encouraging sustainable behaviours. This approach deepens customer relationships, enhances brand engagement, and positively impacts destinations by fostering more responsible and enriching travel experiences. Through PERS, eXplorins is shaping a more sustainable and connected future for the travel industry.

Judges Comments

PERS presents a truly unique offer built upon cutting edge Web3 technologies designed to provide a decentralised technology foundation connecting local tourism ecosystems.

The judges were highly impressed with the overall philosophy behind PERS and the way in which it is focusing on reinforcing equity at a destination level, with a particular focus on SMEs. It also pivoting around a strong sense of values and purpose defining the overall mission and indeed the problem eXplorins are trying to solve.

The use of blockchain to create a fair, transparent, decentralised layer for the destination is admirable. It is also going to be one of the biggest challenges to overcome in scaling PERS to ensure it can deliver the impact it promises.

The judges were particularly impressed with the way in which with a SaaS based approach eXplorins is aiming to address this directly, whilst in the overall brand proposition of the platform the aim is to lower barriers brought about by fear or perception, presenting a strong consumer facing proposition hosted on the Blockchain.

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