Airport transfer companies with drivers trained, insured and rated

A first step

Gather three drivers you trust, check their licences and insurance, and write a one-page promise covering fixed prices, clean vehicles and arrival times. Take it to the owners of 10 guesthouses that book airport pickups for their guests, and offer a trial with a rating card for each guest to fill in. The proof is a guesthouse that books its next arrival through you.

Who pays first

A guesthouse owner whose guests land late at night, who pays for a driver they can trust because a bad first hour ruins the review.

What leaves today

The first ride shapes every review a visitor writes; trained, insured and rated drivers are proof of reliability that the whole tourist trade can sell.

The idea and the mechanism are from the book. The first step was written for this site as a suggestion; if you know a better one, say so.

The test

Does it keep value that now leaves the island, or build the proof that lets somebody else do so?

The only test any idea on this site has to pass. The four rules that go with it are here.

In the book

• Ch. TwoAn Island Nobody Has Counted
  The harbour on the main sea lane
• Ch. FourteenThe List
  Defend the port before expanding it

More from cluster 22

• 426Motorbike courier networks in the districts for the small exporters' parcels
• 427Shared depots where twenty producers fill one container
• 428Refrigerated three-wheelers for the fish and dairy trades
• 429Tourist shuttle services on fixed routes and published timetables between the sites
• 431Luggage-forwarding for tourists, so they can walk the hills and meet their bags at the coast
• 432Bicycle hire and repair in the tourist towns and the flat districts

All 10 ideas in this cluster