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Somewhere
over the rainbow
And the dreams that you dream of once in a lullaby
Somewhere over the rainbow
Blue birds fly
And the dreams that you dream of
Feel really do come true
Someday you'll wish upon a star
Wake up where the clouds are far behind
Be where trouble melts like lemon dust
I am a virgin when it comes to where
You'll find me all the time
Somewhere over the rainbow
Blue birds fly
I am a virgin when it comes to where
You'll find me all the time
So first of all, I'd like to introduce you to your company.
Marco is a company that has been created with a small team of 7 people.
We are all gathered around the idea of ​​another form of travel, which is a travel that resonates, which contributes to local development.
Marco bought and traveled a lot.
So NeoMarco today is a participatory site, through which users are led to evaluate objects according to three criteria.
So there is authentic, insolite and ethical.
So today, what are the values that NeoMarco defends?
And how did you come up with this idea?
We started with the idea of ​​our travel needs.
We were very frustrated to find difficult objects that are testimonies, memories, which are a strong dimension of memories and emotions.
We are not very fanatic of tourist shops.
And we also think very strongly that the benefits generated by tourism,
of Westerners who will travel around the world, it will be interesting that they come a little bit to the artisans, to the creators, to the local producers.
And in the other idea, it was to work, to propose to other internet users, to sign online and to tell objects and encounters with artisans
who will be denigrated by everyone in the world to allow other members of this community, NeoMarco, to discover objects that they would like to find in travel and to buy on site.
A story about the object?
A story about the object is another form of consumerism, which would be a form that would allow to get out of the classroom and meet people.
And so to participate in a certain way, each one in the measure of the budget, of his means, of his desires,
but to participate in the support of local artisans, development.
And these three authentic and solitary criteria, in fact, these are the three criteria of the traveler when we bring back something from a vacation or a trip.
We are either interested in the fact that the object is unstoppable elsewhere, it is unsolvable, we know that we will not find it elsewhere.
It is authentic, it is the terroir of the heritage, which is really written in the history of the country and which represents it.
Or it is an object that is very important to us, it is an object that has been made in globally respectful conditions of people and the environment
and which often allows to support a local community, to develop it, to develop projects.
So the example we talked about earlier, the example that we took was precisely the small dolls made in Peru.
And that was really an example, a real example that allows to illustrate this, this ethical dimension that you were joined.
What is your vision of the journey?
Well, my vision of the journey, in any case, what we know is that in the journey, we do not want to fall into a tourist trap.
Even if sometimes, it can happen to us, it happens in the airport, but we want to be able to find something else.
We thought that when we leave, you will respond to this need because this need corresponds to many other travelers we met.
So this is the first part, the second part, it is sometimes in travel, we want not only to buy objects, but also to meet people who do something else than to live purely tourism and around that.
And how was the meeting of these people, if this is born, by using this community of travelers who say we have denigrated this place,
someone who is on the place of liberation in the family.
And this plan, we will never understand, tourist guides do not talk about it.
So why not us being aware of what is happening and at the same time, look at what is happening around,
to be able to support a local action around ethical production or production that makes a community, things like that.
Ok, my very access, again, it is really very access around the notion of sharing, which is still strong today.
And about me, you know, it is also a very strong value of my journey.
In which I invite people to contact me directly to meet us simply.
And you, what is your, so Neo-Marco is obviously sponsored by my adventure.
So thank you.
And what is your vision of my project and what do you think of my project?
Don't cry.
So in fact, we have found in our project something that resonates quite well with the way of learning the journey.
We think that the journey is a mutual knowledge tool.
It is really a sharing tool, the journey, we go to meet people.
It is especially useful to that and what makes us, in the world, talk about it.
It is also because we travel, it is important.
And travel differently, do not worry about meeting before worrying about the condition of the quality of the hotel.
There are some important things when you travel, do not take it beyond everything else.
It is something that speaks to us.
And so in the way in which we met on your project, we said that there was in your approach this dimension of value.
That was to say that your journey was also to meet people, it was also to go and take the time,
even if you have a perspective of a large number of countries to visit,
but to take the time to meet each other, to build something with each other.
That is for us, I think it is really one of the things.
The added value of the journey for us, it is really this form of contribution and sharing.
Our community site, we have very little editorial approach, we make portraits,
we are going to make more of it.
We want to support all the travelers who want to travel in general.
We are interested, we have a connection.
But our proposal is above all to gather contributions, portraits, travelers,
creators, artists who say that what interests me in the meeting is this,
to present an object that I made, to discover the value of an object that was presented to me
and I invite you to go and buy it in such a place.
For us, this effect is the real human network, which is behind a virtual network,
that is what counts.
And I think that in your walk, there is also the mobilization of the help to talk about your project,
but behind all this reflection on the meeting, which I like very much.
We will end on the game.
At the moment, you have launched a game that consists of proposing its best object,
and then invite the users of NeoMarco to vote for the best object.
Can you go up a little more and what is coming?
We have developed a game that allowed the Internet to come and see NeoMarco,
by depositing objects.
We have created an environment where we have our own system of NeoMarco and see how it works.
The idea is to deposit an object that we like, that we have open to travel,
to which we belong, and we describe it, etc.
And then the Internet votes for these objects that are selected.
And if we have the most number of votes, we can also win with winners,
since they are a little smaller.
The idea is that.
The idea, in the long term, is to make this kind of game all along.
To reward the NeoMarco who are the most active,
who are going to deposit a lot of objects, who are going to talk about what they are doing.
To tell stories, to sum up their objects.
The idea is to have a community media that allows to prepare its journey,
to be rich in content, and which also allows,
this is a path to come, but much more visible than it is today,
to allow travelers to create something together before the journey.
So it was important for us, the site is very young,
it is a very young company, and the site has been in line for a month.
So the idea for us was to start this idea,
to develop this communication, this message around talking about your objects,
because your objects have meaning for you and for the people who make them.
So that's it, it's a little bit about it.
The competition mechanism is quite unique,
there is a very effective dimension in the objects,
we want to talk about it, we want to bring them back, we want to offer them.
And playing around that, it was nice too.
So that's the mechanism we explored, with important partners for us,
who are Spryce, who are Orange, who are Thomas,
who are really partners who played the game and supported us.
And the idea is to continue to regularly have this mechanism of...
Well, to...
to tell us that around the site.
Okay.
So we invite obviously all the editors to play.
That's it.
That's it, that's it.
But those who will arrive a little too late,
they will wait a little bit or sign up for the site.
And then there are other competition mechanisms,
and then to go back to the editorial, because we prepare portraits.
So there it is, we talk about bottles at sea,
there are a lot of things.
And then we work with Romain,
because we are going to follow a whole year,
we are absolutely delighted, because it's a nice trip.
And in the past, we certainly went with you Romain,
we talked a lot too,
working on community cooperation,
which is local,
they are actors of solid development.
That's part of it, it's going to help us,
it's going to help us with our work.
We already have the projects and portraits,
and we know that it's something that will take care of you too.
And so we will also try to go to the sea
to value these projects a little bit through your trip.
It's not good to come, actually.
That's it.
It will be on the road for us.
And listen, thank you for your time.
Thank you for welcoming me today.
And then, well, very quickly then.
Have a good trip.
Thank you.
Over the rainbow
Blue bird fly
