About this app

TRAVELING JUST GOT SOCIAL!
***********
Travel Pal helps you find new people and make friends as you travel the world! It’s based on the concept of couchsurfing, but actually takes couchsurfing to the next level.

If you are traveling, you can use Travel Pal to find a place to stay. It also helps you find a local partner or guide who knows the place. And with the assisted phrasebook guides and translation tools, you can talk to anyone in their native language in just a few minutes.

You can also list yourself on the app to be a host to other travelers and tourists and become an active member of the couchsurfing community.

With Travel Pal, you can travel freely without any language barriers.

WHY TRAVEL PAL?
***********
• Stay with locals for free
• Meet locals and make new friends before you travel
• Let locals show you around and advise you during your trip
• Welcome travelers to your hometown as a host
• Full-featured chat messaging system (including voice and video calling)
• Unique phrasebooks and translation tools to assist communication with people
• A community of over 1.5 million users in over 150 countries

TRAVEL THE WORLD, WITH THE WORLD
***********
As a TRAVELER, you can easily find locals who are willing to help you during your stay. Simply create a Travel Plan with the following details:
• Where you want to travel to
• When are you thinking of traveling
• What you’re looking for (place to stay, general advice, someone to show you around, or a drink/meal)

Then you can either just sit back and wait for interested Hosts from that destination to contact you, or do a quick search for locals in that area. Once you find potential hosts, chat with them, confirm your booking and plan your travel.

Trips are logged on Travel Pal and subject to our User Review and Feedback system to help keep the community safe.

Don’t want to travel alone? Finding fellow travelers and making friends with people who are planning a trip to that same destination is just a quick search away!

LET THE WORLD TRAVEL TO YOU
***********
Even if we can’t travel, it doesn’t have to stop us from meeting new people and making friends around the world!

As a HOST, you’ll have the opportunity to welcome and help visitors to your city during their stay, including:
• Showing them around
• Meeting up for a drink or a meal
• Giving advice
• Offering a place to stay

In extending kindness and generosity to travelers, you’ll build lasting friendships and learn about the world, even without stepping out of your doorstep!

LANGUAGE IS NOT A BARRIER
***********
Not speaking any foreign language is no longer a barrier to communicating with the people of the world and getting to know them!

Not only does Travel Pal come with a full-featured chat messaging system (with voice and video calling), but it also has built-in phrasebooks and translation tools that make communication as super easy. You can learn a foreign language before you visit that place, so you can communicate fluently during your stay. For example, Travel Pal’s unique phrasebooks allow you to start talking in a foreign language with visitors within minutes, literally!


ABOUT HELLO PAL
***********
Travel Pal is developed by Hello Pal International Inc., a company listed on the Canadian Stock Exchange (HP:CSE). Hello Pal's mission is to bring the world closer together by eliminating a key obstacle to mutual understanding between people - the language barrier. By creating platforms for people to easily communicate and instantly connect in a joyful and fun way, we hope to foster understanding & tolerance between all citizens of the world.

Visit www.HelloPal.com, or write to support@hellopal.com.

FOLLOW US:
***********
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/travelpalchat/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/travelpalchat
• G+: https://plus.google.com/117829843933115055847
• Instagram: http://instagram.com/travelpalchat

New features

We also made some improvements to:
• Improved app stability
• Fixed several bugs

App Permissions

Allows an application to read the user's contacts data.
Required to be able to access the camera device.
Allows an application to write to external storage.
Allows an application to read from external storage.
Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows applications to access information about Wi-Fi networks.
Allows applications to access information about networks.
Allows an application to record audio.
Allows an application to read or write the system settings.
Allows access to the vibrator.
Allows an application to modify global audio settings.
Allows mounting and unmounting file systems for removable storage.
Allows an app to create windows using the type TYPE_APPLICATION_OVERLAY, shown on top of all other apps.
Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.
Allows applications to disable the keyguard if it is not secure.
Allows an app to access approximate location.
Allows an app to access precise location.
Allows applications to change Wi-Fi connectivity state.
Allows an application to broadcast sticky intents.
Allows access to the list of accounts in the Accounts Service.
Allows read only access to phone state, including the phone number of the device, current cellular network information, the status of any ongoing calls, and a list of any PhoneAccounts registered on the device.