In 2004, this small website only had a part-time employee, but it attracted many enthusiastic European students to share their travels on this platform. Sharing and mutual assistance have since become the genes of poor travel. Through word of mouth, everyone helped each other, and soon there were tens of thousands of users in Europe. Early users were mainly European and American students and local Chinese. This stage lasted from 2004 to 2008, when poor tourists moved their offices back to Beijing from Europe. It took some time for the proportion of domestic users to surpass that of Europe and America for the first time. Prior to this, overseas users accounted for as high as 80%, of which Europe and North America accounted for more than 60%, Australia and New Zealand accounted for 65,438+02%, Asia accounted for 23%, and Africa and Central and South America accounted for 23%.
According to the statistics of 20 13, the number of poor tourists abroad is still as high as 25%, which is second to none in the domestic tourism industry.
Today, tens of millions of China tourists have embarked on a journey accompanied by poor tourists. Poor travel moved back to Beijing in 2008, and its influence in China has gradually expanded in recent years. A large number of well-known and influential opinion leaders have emerged in China, some of whom have now become employees of poor travel. There are also many people who make themselves famous on the platform of poor travel, such as early moderators and enthusiastic netizens (kukugerman, vaquita, uglyqueen, Legend of Scorpion), such as the universal couple "Thank you and Caicai" at 20 1 1. There are also 20 12 best-selling book "I just want to stop and see the world", the famous photographer couple "Left Hand", 20 13 global elderly backpackers "Flower Backpackers", Chen Jia and Tingting, and the recently very hot couple "Molly and Lean Meat" and so on. ...
During the period of 10, poor tourists got investment, a new office, a team, more products, a better interface and more users. What makes us even more happy is that poor tourists can still be lucky enough to stick to what remains unchanged: it is still the home of millions of poor tourists, and the goal is still to make China people's outbound travel more convenient through this platform, so that more poor tourists can get a better travel experience.