TripUp develops social travel application Couch Swap for Facebook platform

Social travel network TripUp, Inc. has launched CouchSwap, a new social travel application developed specifically for the Facebook platform.

Published: 31 Jul 2007

Social travel network TripUp, Inc. has launched CouchSwap, a new social travel application developed specifically for the Facebook platform.

CouchSwap is TripUp’s first product launch since its recent acquisition by travel search company Sidestep, Inc.

According to SideStep, CouchSwap allows Facebook users to offer up their available couches to friends and other travelers as well as find an available couch offered up by another member, thus offering a different kind of lodging experience while traveling.

CouchSwap users can search available couches on a world map, rate the comfort of their friends’ couches, and even request various locations where they’d like to find a couch on which to crash; the only pre-requisite is that a user needs to offer up a couch in order to take advantage of other people’s couches.

The feature is open to Facebook members worldwide.

“CouchSwap isn’t just about finding a free place to crash; it offers a way to connect with others while traveling in addition to sharing your own local experience by lending your couch to a fellow travel
enthusiast,” said Brian Stolte, Director of Product Management, SideStep, Inc.

Stolte said that the new TripUp application meshes well with existing SideStep applications for Facebook such as Trips.

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