A few years ago a group of experienced hotel professionals found that they shared a common frustration.
Although the hotel distribution field was rife with contenders, many looked like dinosaurs trying to evolve into a new age, but unable to rid themselves of their tell-tale tails. No one was offering a fresh, forward-thinking solution expressly built for a world where the most common kind of booking was online, and powerful and interactive web designs sold services and products, including hotel rooms. A world in which branding, marketing, revenue management, and booking technologies were intertwined in a critically new way, and reflected the current way guests were shopping.
To handle online bookings hotels had come to rely too heavily on online travel agencies, which were taking advantage of hotels’ discomfort with newer means of distribution. These industry professionals didn’t see why hoteliers should depend on expensive third-party sites to get these sales that were daily becoming an increasing portion of their overall business.
They thought instead that it made the most sense—and profit—to be direct. To minimize costly intermediaries and sell rooms from a hotel’s direct website, hands-down the cheapest channel. To create a new breed of distribution solution, fitted to the age, to help hotels grow more, more profitably, and outcompete their neighbors.
So one day they made their thought a reality.
In 2005, a few industry vets brought together experts from the hospitality industry, online marketing, and software engineering to form Travel Tripper. Our people come from hotel marketing, operations, distribution, and revenue management, from New York City’s most renowned properties and India’s finest hotels. We have worked in product development and software engineering at major GDS companies, and we know what it takes to compete and succeed in your industry.
At Travel Tripper, being direct is not just a distribution strategy, it’s our philosophy. We’re not held back by tradition; we’re driven toward real results. We cut out costly inefficiencies wherever we can and work directly with your team to help you to the most direct profits. Because with us, our success depends—directly—on yours.
