Planning a long trip across several countries gets annoying fast.
You need to check:
- Visa requirements
- Passport validity rules
- Vaccines
- Entry forms
- Proof of onward travel
- Travel insurance requirements
- Driving permit rules
- Length-of-stay limits
- Transit requirements
And the answer depends on your passport, where you live, where you’re going, and sometimes where you’ve recently been.
The idea is simple:
Enter your citizenship, country of residence, travel dates and itinerary. Get one checklist containing everything you need to enter and travel through those countries.
For example:
Portuguese citizen living in Norway
Thailand → Vietnam → Indonesia → Australia
3 months
Instead of researching four countries separately, you get one trip-level checklist.
The real product is trust
Building the form is easy.
Getting the information right is hard.
Visa and health requirements change. Some depend on nationality, residency, trip duration, arrival country or recent travel history.
So I wouldn’t start by building some giant international rules database.
The important question is:
Will people pay to have this research done accurately for them?
Start manually
Offer something like:
Send me your itinerary and I’ll research every visa, vaccine and entry requirement for your trip.
Personalized travel requirements report: €29.
Then produce the first reports manually using official sources.
You’ll quickly learn:
- what travelers are most confused about;
- which countries are difficult;
- what information changes frequently;
- how long the research actually takes;
- what people are willing to pay for.
If nobody pays €29 for the manually researched result, building the software probably won’t fix the problem.
Who I’d target
I’d avoid normal one-week tourists initially.
The pain gets much bigger for:
- backpackers;
- digital nomads;
- gap-year travelers;
- overlanders;
- people doing 2–6 month trips;
- people visiting several countries;
- travelers with residency in a different country from their citizenship.
Someone flying to Spain for a weekend doesn’t need this.
Someone traveling through eight countries in Southeast Asia might.
Distribution
Search seems like the obvious channel.
People already search things like:
- Do I need a visa for Vietnam?
- Vaccines for Southeast Asia
- Passport validity Thailand
- Indonesia visa requirements
- What do I need for a 3 month Asia trip?
You could build free country-specific pages and calculators, then upsell:
Planning multiple countries? Generate your complete trip checklist.
Travel YouTubers, backpacking creators and digital-nomad newsletters could also work well as affiliates.
Possible business model
I wouldn’t immediately make this a subscription.
Travel is episodic.
I’d test:
€19–€49 per trip
with a more expensive option for complicated itineraries.
Later you could monetize through affiliates for things travelers need anyway:
- travel insurance;
- eSIMs;
- airport transfers;
- international driving permits;
- vaccination clinics;
- tours.
The report could potentially become the acquisition product rather than the main source of revenue.
Market tests I’d run
Test 1: Sell the manual report
Make a landing page:
Going on a long multi-country trip? I’ll tell you every visa, vaccine and entry requirement you need to deal with.
Charge €29.
Post it in backpacking, digital-nomad and long-term travel communities.
The only question initially is whether anyone pays.
Test 2: Free itinerary checker
Build an extremely basic form:
Passport: Portugal
Residence: Norway
Destinations: Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia
At the end:
Your trip contains 7 requirements you should check.
Ask for an email to receive the full report.
Measure whether people actually complete the form.
Test 3: Concierge in travel communities
Find people posting actual itineraries:
“Three months in Southeast Asia — anything I’m forgetting?”
Message 20 of them and offer to research their requirements.
See which questions repeatedly come up.
Test 4: Search ads
Run a small Google Ads test against high-intent searches such as:
visa requirements multi country trip
or:
travel visa checker
Send them to the paid report.
You can learn whether people will buy before building much at all.
Test 5: Travel creator affiliates
Find 20 small YouTubers who make videos about backpacking, digital nomadism or Southeast Asia.
Offer something like 30% of every report sold.
If creators are interested and their viewers convert, you’ve found a potentially scalable distribution channel.
What would make me build it?
I’d want to see:
- strangers paying for manual reports;
- the same questions appearing repeatedly;
- research that can be standardized;
- travelers asking for updates when requirements change;
- strong search demand;
- affiliate partners willing to promote it.
Then I’d start turning the repeated research into software.
Not before.
The form is the easy part.
The business is making someone confident that they won’t arrive at an airport and discover they forgot something important.
That’s what I’d test.