Luggage-forwarding for tourists, so they can walk the hills and meet their bags at the coast

A first step

Talk to the owners of the guesthouses at both ends of one popular walking route in the hills and ask how their walking guests handle their bags now. Offer to move bags by road between them, with a fixed price per bag and a receipt at both ends, and ask each owner to mention it at booking. The proof is the first paid bags delivered, and a guest review that mentions it.

Who pays first

Walkers who want to cross the hills on foot but carry heavy luggage, and gladly pay per bag to walk light and find it waiting.

What leaves today

Walkers who cannot shed their bags take a car instead and spend less on the way; forwarding turns the walk itself into a product the island sells.

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

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• 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
• 430Airport transfer companies with drivers trained, insured and rated
• 432Bicycle hire and repair in the tourist towns and the flat districts

All 10 ideas in this cluster