The overall mission of Arrive is to give Destinations unlimited on-demand Content from a simple online platform - from amazing photographers, videographers, or writers - removing all the usual content fees, travel expenses, or agency costs 📸 🎥 ✍️ ❤️

That could be beautiful photography of a new seasonal menu in the restaurant for your upcoming website update - the chefs at work, plating, waiting teams, table set up, "guests" dining, etc

It could be an amazing hero video for pinning on your social channels - showing a couple's journey to the hotel, arriving & being greeted, and a highlight of all the amenities.

Or it could be an eloquent written piece as an overview of a new feature, turning previous guests into repeats through your newsletter.

You get the picture…

Here's An Overview 👇

• Seamless Integration. All Partnership Content is delivered directly in Arrive - no more email chains or download links.
  
  

• Effortless Curation. See Content for each Partnership, and organise how you need.
  
  

• Limitless Storage. All plans have unlimited content storage included, so you can remove the cost of Google Drive, Dropbox, etc
  
  

  
  
  

Receiving Content 🖼️

When a Partnership is "In Progress", a Creative will obviously be visiting and producing the content you need.

When they've been, all the Content will then be uploaded directly to the Partnership in Arrive. You'll then get a notification letting you know it's ready for viewing. This could be during their stay or after they've left - whichever you decide.

Forget all the mess of email chains & Google Drive links - everything is in-platform from Creative-discovery to Content-delivery.

In-Platform Storage & Organisation 📂

When Content is uploaded, you can then do whatever you want with it - store it in Arrive, split into folders, archive anything you're not going to use, or download to your device.

Arrive is built in Google's Cloud platform, so the performance you get in-app is identical to Google Drive - just in a far more useful way being linked directly to your Partnerships.

You can share Content with your team directly in Arrive, without the need to set access or security rules. If a team member is a member of the Destination's users, then they'll automatically get a notification whenever Content is uploaded to a Partnership as well - keeping everything in sync with no extra effort from you.

As usual the overriding aim with Content is simplicity - keeping the steps as few & as simple as possible from discovery to delivery of the specific Content you need.

Receiving, organising, and sharing through download folders is messy - the more we can minimise those external steps & hurdles, streamlining everything through Arrive, the better!

Content will be getting some more awesome optimisations soon - folder systems, more team options, publishing, and even some AI Content recognition tools ✨

Partnerships between Destinations & Creatives are the foundations of Arrive, and I'm super excited to enable them through a beautifully designed booking calendar.

Arrive gets increasingly valuable as you complete more Partnerships, becoming a key part of your workflow that you won't go back from…

Here's An Overview 👇

• Intuitive Calendar. Set as many or as few Partnership Availability Slots as you want. You're in control.
  
  

• Simple Management. See received, sent, in progress, completed, declined, and cancelled Partnerships all in one dashboard.
  
  

• Stay In The Details. See Partnership details with one click - letting you seamlessly manage everything & keep up to date.
  
  
  

Setting Availability Slots 📆

Arrive's Calendar is different in that it's 'default closed'.

Destinations can set availability slots whenever they want on their Calendar, and Creatives can only send requests for these specific dates.

Gone are the days of "do you have availability?". Everyone is in sync right from the moment they see your profile.

You can set as many or as few availability slots as you'd like, for any duration of time. For example, set 4 nights of availability from Sunday 14 January to Thursday 18 January - and Creatives can then send you requests for any combination of nights within that range; 1, 2, 3 or 4 nights.

Managing your dashboard 🛎️

To keep it really simple, you manage everything from search to content delivery all in one dashboard.

You can approve & reject Partnership requests, check the status of requests you've sent, see the details of in-progress Partnerships, and review any Partnerships that were declined or had to be cancelled.

It eliminates all the mess of email chains & planning between multiple people or teams - everything is in one place, on one page.

It's all based on the intuitive scrolling that you'll get used to, so the app feels familiar whether you're using on desktop or mobile.

Seeing the details 👀

Every Partnership has a one-click details panel - letting you quickly see more details on a Partnership without having to go to separate pages.

Check all the dates & status, see content as it's being produced, and message directly in-platform. No more messy email chains.

I've made Partnerships & the Calendar as powerful as possible, letting you manage & keep up to date with everything you need - but all in the simplest possible 'view', without having to open new tabs, jump between pages, etc.

The more Partnerships you complete on Arrive, the more value you'll get out of the platform. To start with I'd recommend at least 2 Partnerships per month, giving you a rolling flow of content being produced that you can pick from and use whenever you're ready.

More upgrades & integrations coming soon 📆

Think of Search as Arrive's "compass" - it sets the direction for how you use the platform.

How Destinations find Creatives. How Creatives find Destinations. How Profiles & Content are shown off. How availability is displayed. How Partnerships are booked.

It's super simple & streamlined, but it's the central network that connects every type of user.

Here's An Overview 👇

• Dual Perspectives. Destinations see Creatives. Creatives see Destinations.
  
  

• Intuitive Filters. Simple filters to find exactly what you want.
  
  

  • Filter Creatives by type - photographers, videographers, writers, & models 📸 🎥 ✍️
    
    

  • Filter Destinations by country 🇬🇧 🇪🇸 🇲🇦 (for now… location search coming soon!)
    
    

• Elegant Navigation. Seamless scrolling on desktop or mobile.
  
  
  

Searching Creatives 👀

Destinations can search Creatives by type & category. You can see all Creative types at once - or filter specifically for photographers, etc.

For example, you might need a photographer to shoot your new restaurant menu - you can find them in the platform and book a Partnership, saving the time & cost of booking externally, paying agencies, travel expenses, & content fees.

You'll also see suggestions for featured & new Creatives - making sure there's a constant flow of new partners for you, but also keeping it as simple as possible.

Searching Destinations 🗺️

Creatives can search Destinations by country & location, and also see upcoming availability on each Destination's preview card.

Say you want to explore Marrakech in February. You can filter by Morocco 🇲🇦, and see the Destinations that have availability for the dates you're travelling.

If you enable location settings, you'll also be able to see Destinations near you - making it even easier to book last minute Partnerships when you're either exploring a new location, or just browsing for staycations near you.

So, yeah, I've tried to keep Search as clean, elegant, and intuitive as possible, but it's a really powerful tool to help you find what you need, wherever you are, without all the usual hassle & cost of organisation.

There's some amazing new features being tested at the moment that will make Search even faster & automatic - but as usual they're secret for now 😎

Ok, imagine if your hotel had unlimited on-demand marketing content. From incredible photographers, videographers, or writers. No agency costs, no travel expenses, and even no content fees. All in a platform that’s as simple as Airbnb.

That'd be pretty useful, right?

Well Arrive connects Destinations with Creatives - leveraging your empty rooms - letting you find and host amazing Creatives who pay for their stay with the content you need.

It's basically digital bartering for the travel industry - with content as a currency 📸 🎥 ✍️

🏡 create your Profile

It all starts with creating a profile to show yourself off - then you can then set partnership availability dates.

This works just like an Airbnb calendar - you set availability, and Creatives can send you Partnership requests for available dates.

👀 search & find invited Creatives

You can also send your own requests to Creatives if you want specific content. You might need a photographer to shoot a new restaurant menu - you can find them in the platform & book a Partnership, saving the time of booking externally, paying content fees & travel expenses.

The same goes for any type of content you might need - photo, video, or written - the best Creatives are invited to the platform by us, so you know they’ve already been reviewed for quality.

🤝 manage your Partnerships

To keep it really simple, you manage everything from search to content delivery all in one dashboard.

You can approve & reject Partnership requests, see the details of in-progress Partnerships, and plan everything through the messaging system.

💾 receive & store Content

When a Partnership is complete you receive & store all your content in-platform as well. Creatives upload their content directly in-platform & linked to your Partnership - ending messy email chains & the need to use Google Drive or Dropbox to send content.

You can then store your content in Arrive for efficiency, or download & transfer it to wherever you keep your assets.

💡 how Arrive started

Arrive evolved out of my own experience in photography. I'm a Creative myself, and at it's simplest, Arrive was just me doing freelance photography around my desk job in finance.

It soon outgrew the original idea and over the last few years I've travelled to (& sometimes lived at!) hotels in 8 different countries - planning, designing & building the platform whilst paying for my stay over weeks & months with my photography 📸

🙌 how you get started

Hopefully you see that it’s a simple solution, but I do realise this is a new way of working, so to make it as easy as possible to get started, your onboarding & first partnership are done personally by me.

That’s how Arrive started, and that’s how I’d like you to start using it.

For every new onboarding I travel to you to show you the full flow of how the platform works, meeting the team, and creating a batch of photos for anything that you need as your first partnership.

💳 pricing

To use Arrive it's just a flexible & pause-able subscription for each hotel of either £100 or £200 a month depending on your team size - but obviously replacing all the Creative & content fees, travel expenses, any agency costs, and of course saving your team a huge amount of time.

🔮 future

Right now, Arrive is available in:

🇦🇹 Austria, 🇧🇪 Belgium, 🇭🇷 Croatia, 🇩🇰 Denmark, 🇫🇷 France, 🇩🇪 Germany, 🇬🇷 Greece, 🇮🇪 Ireland, 🇮🇹 Italy, 🇲🇦 Morocco, 🇳🇱 Netherlands, 🇳🇴 Norway, 🇵🇹 Portugal, 🇪🇸 Spain, 🇸🇪 Sweden, 🇨🇭 Switzerland, 🇹🇷 Turkey, 🇬🇧 UK

The focus for the next 6 months is growing the supply of Destinations & Creatives in key cities within these countries, then Arrive will be available for the rest of the world.

There's going to be a constant flow of updates alongside the geographical expansion - refining, bug fixing, and building new features & integrations.

There's a lot more under the surface of Arrive that is private for now, and I can't wait to build towards making that public as well 🤐

Keep an eye out for the updates…