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SAN FRANCISCO, July 28 /PRNewswire/ — At the National Business travel Association International Convention and Exposition, TripIt () announced the use of its travel itinerary and social networking service among corporate travelers at some of the nation’s leading companies, as well as a partnership with Sabre VirtuallyThere.
TripIt reports having registered users at 76 of Fortune 100 companies, and all 100 of the BTN 100; which is a list of the 100 top traveling companies compiled by Business travel News magazine. With TripIt, business travelers, travel arrangers and corporate travel agencies can organize and share their business trips more efficiently.
“TripIt is like having a personal travel assistant,” commented Omar Shahine from Microsoft. “TripIt manages all the details of our trips for us. If this is the future, I love it.”
Business travelers simply forward their flight, hotel and rental car confirmations emails to TripIt and automatically receive a combined master itinerary with all of their plans in one place. TripIt is expanding the traditional travel itinerary to also include meetings, events, restaurants, car services, trains and cruises. In addition, the free service also automatically provides helpful information such as daily weather, local maps, driving directions and city guides. TripIt itineraries can be printed, viewed online, accessed from a mobile device, and shared with fellow travelers in their TripIt social network.
TripIt is also now available as part of the VirtuallyThere itinerary service from Sabre travel Network, which is used by leading travel agencies and their customers to access their travel plans.
“We’re thrilled to work with Sabre and to have business travelers and travel arrangers from many large companies already using our free service,” said Gregg Brockway, TripIt co-founder and president, “With our open platform, we make it possible for travelers to book within their company’s managed travel programs and forward their confirmation emails to TripIt to customize and collaborate on their trips. The new integration with Sabre VirtuallyThere makes that even easier for Sabre customers.”
“TripIt is an exciting social travel service that complements Sabre VirtuallyThere,” said Greg Webb, CMO at Sabre travel Network/Sabre Airline Solutions. “We make the best travel services available to our customers and the TripIt option is another tool for customers to optimize their travel experience.”
TripIt currently accepts confirmation emails from more than 150 booking services, including all the major online travel and business travel sites, travel agencies and online corporate booking tools. As an open travel platform, TripIt continues to add the ability to support corporate travel programs of all sizes.
TripIt co-founder and president, Gregg Brockway will be speaking at NBTA in Los Angeles, discussing “Social Networking and Corporate Travel” on Tuesday, July 29, 2008 at 8:00 a.m.
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TripIt helps people organize their online travel plans-flights, hotels, rental cars, trains, car services, cruises, restaurants, events and meetings — no matter where they booked. Travelers just forward their travel confirmation emails to . TripIt processes these emails and automatically creates a master itinerary with travel plans, daily weather, local maps, city guides and more. With TripIt, it’s easy for travelers to access all their trip plans online or from a mobile device — and to share itineraries and see when their trips overlap with friends and colleagues in their TripIt social network. TripIt has been honored by TechCrunch, Under The Radar, Web 2.0 Summit and was a 2008 Webby Nominee. More at .
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NEWTON, Mass., July 10 /PRNewswire/ — TripAdvisor(R), the world’s largest travel community, today announced a version of its Local Picks(TM) restaurant finder will be available for free at the launch of Apple’s new App Store today. The Local Picks application, utilizing the iPhone’s location-based capabilities, will allow people to find the best restaurants, as rated by locals, based on their current location.
“We want to make TripAdvisor content available to as many people as possible in as many ways as possible,” said Christine Petersen, CMO, TripAdvisor. “Creating a version of Local Picks that takes advantage of the iPhone’s location-based capabilities allows us to offer a simple and portable way to stay connected to TripAdvisor and get relevant content that can be used immediately.”
At the tap of a screen, users will be able to see the restaurants closest to them listed according to TripAdvisor’s popularity index, a way of dynamically ranking establishments based on customer satisfaction. Each restaurant listing will include information about the establishment’s distance from the iPhone user and its rating, based on TripAdvisor member feedback. Because epicurean adventurers may not just want to see the top rated local eateries, TripAdvisor is also incorporating filters into the application that will allow searches to be conducted by rating, radius and price.
In order to learn more about a specific establishment, iPhone users can select a particular restaurant and a map will be provided that shows the location of the eatery. While viewing the map, users can not only see the restaurant’s cuisine type and address, but also tap on its phone number to be instantly connected to the establishment. People seeking even more insight can view TripAdvisor reviews of the restaurant to help them find their ideal dining experience.
Local Picks is available free beginning today from Apple’s App Store on iPhone and iPod touch or at .
About TripAdvisor Media Network
TripAdvisor(R) Media Network, operated by TripAdvisor, LLC, attracts nearly 32 million monthly visitors* across 12 popular travel brands, TripAdvisor, airfarewatchdog.com, bookingbuddy.com , cruisecritic.com, holidaywatchdog.com, independenttraveler.com, onetime.com, seatguru.com, smartertravel.com, travel-library.com, travelpod.com and virtualtourist.com. TripAdvisor-branded sites make up the largest travel community in the world, with 24 million monthly visitors*, six million registered members and 15 million reviews and opinions. Featuring real advice from real travelers, TripAdvisor-branded sites cover 300,000 hotels and attractions and operate in the U.S. (), the U.K. (), Ireland (), France (), Germany (), Italy (), and Spain (). TripAdvisor(R) Media Network provides travel suppliers with graphical advertising opportunities and a cost-per-click marketing platform. Collectively, the sites comprising the TripAdvisor Media Network have won hundreds of awards and accolades from press and industry worldwide. TripAdvisor and the sites comprising the TripAdvisor Media Network are operating companies of Expedia, Inc. .
TripAdvisor and Local Picks are trademarks of TripAdvisor LLC. Other logos or product and company names mentioned herein may be the property of their respective owners.
*Source: comScore Media Metrix, May 2008
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NEW YORK, June 17 /PRNewswire/ — eCommission Solutions’ ECS Kalypso fully integrated commission consolidation, segment capture, tracking, dunning, recovery and reporting program has just been made available to all Amadeus subscribers. ECS Kalypso’s proprietary software captures automatically booked and manually booked hotels, cars and other NON ARC segments created in the Amadeus system.
“I immediately signed up as an ECS Kalypso subscriber because we book thousands of hotels and I estimate that at least 15% of our bookings never make it to the back office. With ECS Kalypso we’ll see an immediate return on investment,” said Jerry Lang, president of House of Travel, an Amadeus travel agency in Aventura, Florida. “We know that we’ll also see savings in administrative time because ECS Kalypso automatically uploads and consolidates commission checks that come in, so reconciliation will be much quicker and we’ll gain new reporting capabilities.”
Because ECS Kalypso completely captures significant detail on all car and hotel bookings, it delivers much greater data analysis and dramatically strengthens the travel agency position for future negotiations with vendors. ECS Kalypso both improves data integrity and increases commission recovery for travel agencies of all sizes.
“Amadeus’ collaboration with eCommission Solutions reflects our ongoing commitment to deliver the best technology solutions available in the travel industry. Amadeus’ partnership with solution providers like ECS ensures that a robust and complete set of technology solutions are available to improve and enhance travel agency productivity and profitability,” said Edward Tie, Director Strategic Business Development for Amadeus North America.
“We have already signed several Amadeus subscribers and anticipate having the opportunity to work with many more,” said Paul Hoffmann, President and CEO of eCommission Solutions. “These days commission recovery is not a luxury, it is a necessity that every booked segment be tracked and the commissions paid. Because we have designed such an efficient program, most agencies not only pay for our services with this ‘found’ revenue, it also provides extra revenues that go straight to the bottom line.”
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