You don’t have to eat alone tonight.
Say where you are going next. See who else is there that week. Have dinner with one of them.
Nobody tells you how lonely business travel gets.
Four nights a month in a city where you know nobody. A hotel bar you do not want to sit at on your own. Room service and a laptop, again. The trip is fine. The evenings are the problem.
Three steps between landing and knowing someone in town.
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01 Declare
Say where you are going
Dates, city, nothing else. Ten seconds, and the only thing the rest of RAVL needs.
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02 Match
See who else is there
Members whose trips overlap yours, that week, in that city.
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03 Meet
Make a plan for one evening
One message, one dinner.
- Away from home
- Declare the trip
- See who is there
- One message
- Dinner
Careful about who is here, so you don’t have to be.
Saying yes to dinner with someone you have not met should feel ordinary. Four things happen quietly in the background so that it can.
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Everyone joined on purpose
Nobody stumbles in. RAVL is not somewhere you end up.
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A person reads every profile
Not an algorithm, and not after the fact — before that account can message anyone.
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Your phone does the watching
Warnings happen on your device before an abusive message is sent. Nothing is read anywhere else.
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One tap and it stops
Blocking holds everywhere, not just in the conversation you were in. Reporting is one tap, and it reaches a person.
Networking, but not as you think of it.
Members are not here for a room full of lanyards. They are here for one good conversation with someone worth meeting — over dinner, on a walk, in the bar downstairs.
Events are how a lot of them start. A pub meetup in Amsterdam, a supper in Singapore, occasionally something a good deal grander. You turn up, you meet a few people, and the ones you get on with you message the next time you are both in the same city. The event is the introduction. The conversation after it is the point.
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Member story
“Great mix of ambitious people. I feel inspired every time I go.”
Jan SkroudiNomee
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Member story
“Great community event to meet like-minded people and expand your horizons,”
Ieva DvilinskieneFlowspace
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Member story
“If you dislike networking events then I challenge you to give RAVL a go as this will inevitable change your opinion.”
Peter SmithHoo
Your next trip is already in the calendar.
Join, tell us where you are going, and see who else will be there.