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Tueke, the site for choosing how much to pay for the hotel

The more reason not to stop traveling now? A holiday is possible organize even tailored to your budget on a portal created especially for this: it is Tueke, a startup launched on the eve of the first lockdown and now in full expansion with new structures – in addition to the approximately 500 that already has in Italy – and new functions.

How Tueke works

Enough register for free, send a request selecting the destination, the structure – apartments, b & b and hotel -, the services you want to use (for example spa or restaurant) and specifying the budget available, so you just have to wait for the hosts of the network (registration is free for them too) respond by accepting the proposed conditions and / or making their offer in turn, maybe even adding additional plus or particularly special rooms and of a higher level than required. The answers arrive via e-mail, within a few minutes or hours, and once they have all been collected, all that remains is to choose the best solution and then book.

He tests

To try, we went looking for a solution for a holiday in the mountains of Valsassina, in Moggio (Lecco), and with a budget of 200 euros for one night we asked for a five star with beautiful views, fireplace in the room, spa. Tueke showed us two excellent facilities to choose from: a romantic hotel with a view for exactly 200 euros per room with breakfast, and another 100% green, with also a spa, which instead he relaunched for 250 euros, proposing a suite. If we had really left, our choice would have fallen on the second one, so if we had wanted to close the deal we would have had to accept with a click, pay directly to the structure (it’s one of the options) prepare the suitcase. Yup, the last word is always up to the traveler, but in the end, with Tueke, the hoteliers also gain. In short, it is an advantage for everyone.

L’idea

Tueke (which means “suitcase” in Maori) was born for this: a fast and functional mechanism with the aim of «change the rules of travel “. “We decided to put travelers and hotels in direct contact by simplifying the sale and organization of the holiday, allowing everyone to save time and money” he says Carol galuzzi who, after a career in a large hotel chain, now devotes himself full time to Tueke with partners Guido Panigada and Francesco Brighenti.

«Tueke – continues Carol Giannuzzi – does not simply offer an economic advantage to the traveler. I give an example: it may be that I make a proposal for 100 euros and the hotel that wants to accept it has a special offer for 75 for direct customers (which I do not see on the main channels of online agencies) and who therefore responds with a lower offer than mine in a Superior room and / or by accepting my offer for 100 euros but in a suite. Without Tueke I would never have had access to the suite, if not by looking at the individual sites of the hotels with a considerable waste of time ». In all of this, hotels still gain: “With Tueke we support hosts in selling unsold items both in the last minute but also in programming and we give more democratic access to demand because everyone has access at no cost, from the B&B to the grand hotel. For hospitality structures it is a new virtual square and participating is not a race to the bottom: they can accept the rates they wish and possibly also make counter-proposals “.

In fact, hosts respond directly to travelers: it is one of the novelties of the platform which in recent weeks is becoming more and more functional. The search field of the structures, first of all, it has expanded (for example, if you set up a request for Desenzano del Garda, Tueke also proposes structures in the immediate surroundings to give even more alternatives), furthermore the validity time of the proposal will be fixed in a short time and there will also be some guides with a blog of tips from Tueke hosts and experts.

«The pandemic – concludes Carol Galuzzi – has made hoteliers more curious than news like ours, and together with them I hope that our project will be useful to small structures, also because they animate those small unknown and wonderful villages that contribute to making Italy so special and that now we all want to rediscover ».

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