50 percent marketshare and growing

5 February, 2010

Dear Traveas friend,

We are really happy to see that all our contracted clients now are live and launched, which means that travellers from Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Germany, UK, France, and Holland now can travel in control. Con gratulations!

We are also very happy to announce that due to the eTRAVELi purchase of Travelstart´s European accounts, another 11% of the Nordic Online Travel Agency market now offers our TravelPlanner. We are very proud to see that we´ve grown our market share in the Nordic online travel agency market from 0% to more than 50% contracted. In less than a year. I guess we´re doing something right :-)

We have launched our “push marketing mail” function, which is a mail supported sales tool for offline agencies wanting to increase the share of travellers that uses our TravelPlanner service.  The initial weeks with that new function shows a satisfying growth of users.

Speaking of conversion rates, the share of travellers that actively opt in for our service when they book their trip with one of our online travel agency clients, really outperforms our expectations.

More happy news, last week we launched a mobile check-in function in the TravelPlanner. This means that there are mobile check-in possibilities at a number of airlines that supports mobile check-in. So far we offer that possibility for the following airlines:

Finally, we are really excited to let you know that Traveas now broadens our scope with new services based upon the same technique that brought you the TravelPlanner. Within the travel industry we´ve created niched services for both Hotels and Car rental companies. We´ve also created services for more industries, and first out is the media industry and our new service NewsFLASH. Within this new brand we will deliver subscription based services for news, gossip, jobs, press releases to mention a few. All services are based upon our unique plattform MobilizerTM, that generically and automatically aggregates and enrichens traditional content and publishes it a mobile units.

To read more about this exciting news, please click here:

That was all for now, but we will be back later on with more exciting news, Cheers!

/ Jack and the Traveas team

Posted by Jack Melcher-Claësson in The Traveas Blog |
Published 5 February, 2010

Mobile check-in now available

26 January, 2010

Today we proudly announce a new feature in our TravelPlanner service, mobile check-in possibilities.
This means that travellers flying with following airlines can check-in via their mobile phone:

•    SAS
•    British Airways
•    Lufthansa
•    KLM
•    Swiss
•    Thai Airways
•    Continental
•    Air France

Mobile phones are great, right :-)

Happy travel!

Posted by Jack Melcher-Claësson in The Traveas Blog |
Published 26 January, 2010

Supersavertravel is now live

26 January, 2010

One of the largest players in the Nordic Online Travel Agency market has now launched our service, the TravelPlanner.

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So, con grats all you folks booking your trip at Supersavertravel, you can now travel in control.

Also a big up for all the hard working people at eTRAVELi for making the launch a succesful one.

Cheers!

Posted by Jack Melcher-Claësson in The Traveas Blog |
Published 26 January, 2010

Traveas at Arctic Evening Stockholm

10 November, 2009

Some time ago I got a call from Miikka Kukkosuo at Arctic Startup. He kindly asked me if I wanted to be a part of the panel discussion at the next Arctic Evening they planned for in Stockholm in November, the second Arctic Evening Stockholm.

Naturally I was very honored to get that question and my answer back to Miikka was of course nothing but a yes.

The theme for this Arctic Evening will be Mobile smartphone solutions and trends – how to strategically build business around the different native application platforms and mobile web.

The event is next Wednesday the 18th of November at 18.00 hours, and it will take place at O-baren just as last time.

Besides myself and the Arctic Moderator, Viktor Björk and Hjalmar Winbladh will be a part of the panel. Viktor titles himself Spin Doctor and works at Cloudo with strategic partnerships. Cloudo is definitely one of the most interesting startups of today, so I really look forward to meet him.

Hjalmar is a serial entrepreneur, who I had the privilege to meet in business a couple of years ago when I was CEO at Torget.se. Hjalmar is currently Chairman and Founder of Rebtel. Before that he was the first Swede to sell a company to Microsoft, when he sold his first venture Sendit back in the 90´ies. It will be really nice to meet him again.

So, mark the date in your calendars, and don’t forget to apply to get your ticket to the event. The tickets are free of charge, but due to limited number of seats, apply a.s.a.p after the tix are released. The tix will be released on wednesday the 11th of November at 12.00 a clock lunch time. Read more about the event and how to get your ticket here, and read more about Traveas on Arctic Startup here.

Hope to see as many of you there!

Cheers!
/ Jack

Posted by Jack Melcher-Claësson in The Traveas Blog |
Published 10 November, 2009

A tribute to my dear Sara!

10 November, 2009

On the 29th of October 2009 he came, our third child Max :-)

Wilhelm, Hugo and Max! That´s quite a midfield :-)

Thank you Sara, you are FANTASTIC!

Yours forever!
/ Jack

Posted by Jack Melcher-Claësson in The Traveas Blog |
Published 10 November, 2009

Video is a powerful tool!

20 October, 2009

One of my sources of inspiration when it comes to blogging, and also the key reason that I started to blog, is the one and only Christian Rudolf at Disruptive. Some of you might remember an earlier post from me describing how I started to blog, but if not please read it.

Anyhow, some time ago I ran into Christian at a lunch restaurant and as we both were leaving the place I offered to give him a ride. We talked about various things in my car and Christian told me about his new interest of doing video interviews to publish on Disruptive.

Then, not long ago I had another chat with Christian and he said: Why don´t you come over and I´ll bring the camera. So, last week I did. One interesting part about his way of doing video interviews is that we sat and talked for more than an hour about pretty much everything from A to Z. Based upon that dialog Christian narrowed down three things he wanted me to do a reflection on. Those reflections is pretty much a 10 minute summary of our very long and interesting chat about loads of stuff, published in a naked uncut version. And here´s the result, enjoy:

One very interesting thing that happened after this interview was published on the Disruptive Channel at YouTube was that I got a call from one of the leading online business magazines in Sweden, Realtid.se, who made their own interview with me and published it right away. Read the interview with me on Realtid here! I guess there´s some true power in the Disruptive Channel.

Read about Christians own reflections on this session on this disruptive blog post or at this Företagende.se blog post.

For more video interviews done by Christian, take a look at the Disruptive Channel at YouTube. For all of you that wants to read more about Christians (and his co-blogger Poppens) thoughts about entrepreneurship, please insert this feed into your RSS reader now!  I promise it´s worth reading!

Bye for now!

Posted by Jack Melcher-Claësson in The Traveas Blog |
Published 20 October, 2009

Traveas conquers Germany with DERPART

9 October, 2009

A lot is not enough, we always want more :-)

So, let me inform you about a major breakthrough for Traveas on the German market:

DERPART Travel Service launches personal mobile itineraries!
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DERPART Travel Service is one of the leading travel agency networks in Germany, with more than 480 agencies including 60 service centers all over the country.  Two of their biggest agencies, the offices in Munich and Düsseldorf, now launches personal mobile itineraries.

Fred Buchberger, Managing Director DERPART Travel Service Munich, says:
“We constantly aim to deliver upon our clients needs of flexibility and service, and an always updated itinerary direct in the mobile phone solves many problems and situations. By introducing the TravelPlanner™ we can give our customers both an added value, a better travel experience and potentially increase our average revenue for a booking.”

Needless to say that we of course are extremely proud of this partnership with two of the leading DERPART offices in Germany. The German market is a giant market, and since DERPART is a huge network in Germany this is a very important breakthrough for us. We very much look forward to start working with DERPART.

We´ll be back with more news within shortly.

Cheers!

Posted by Jack Melcher-Claësson in The Traveas Blog |
Published 9 October, 2009

Traveas + FlightStats = True!

9 October, 2009

At the Traveas headquarters there´s a lot of great stuff going on, but this time I must say we are a bit extra proud.

FlightStats.com partners with Traveas for mobile alerts!

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This means that our TravelPlanner™ soon will be available for 1 million people travelling worldwide.

For all of you without deep knowledge in the travel business, FlightStats is the leading provider of worldwide flight on-time performance information. Now, they have decided to broaden their mobile alerts for everone globally, and they have chosen Traveas to become their strategic partner for SMS/Text Messaging alerts. By making Traveas mobile alert services available for all visitors at www.flightstats.com, the partnership opens up a market window for all FlightStats users outside the US and North America, approximately 1 million users per month.

David White, VP Business Development at FlightStats, says:
“We constantly aim to provide our users with the most up to date information about a flight – when they need it, no matter where they are. The partnership with Traveas makes it possible for all our users to go mobile. This is something we consider fantastic news for each and every user we have outside the US and North America. We look forward to extend our mobile presence to a global market.”

The launch will take place during Q4 2009.

Cheers!

Posted by Jack Melcher-Claësson in The Traveas Blog |
Published 9 October, 2009

Resevaruhuset for President!

21 September, 2009

When we started out to make reality out of this small idea about providing relevant information to travellers – when they need it, we envisioned one thing:
In a future all travellers will demand to be kept up to date while travelling!

We have put a lot of effort into this small idea, turning it into a project that become a company, that further on even became a public company listed on Aktietorget. We have lots of clients who all have shares our beliefs that information to travellers is a good thing. They all have made our service TravelPlanner™ accessible within their portfolios. That is of course great stuff!

But now, one travel agency have taken it one step further. That agency is Resevaruhuset. resevaruhuset-logo They have taken the final step towards our vision: All travellers will be kept up to date while travelling.
How? They will give away the service to all there travellers for free. I repeat:
To all!
Always!
For free!

This is of course fantastic news to us, and we salute Resevaruhuset at all times :-)

Cheers!

Posted by Jack Melcher-Claësson in The Traveas Blog |
Published 21 September, 2009

GIBE Travel launches personal mobile itineraries

21 September, 2009

Moving on to our next client, GIBE Travel I have to tell you a true and in my opinion lovely story.
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I was one of the speakers during Kapitalmarknadsdagen 2009, which I´ve blogged about earlier. In the coffee break after my session upon stage a Russian woman named Zoya Diriba came up to me and thanked me very sincerely.
- Thank your for what I asked her?
- Thank you for inspiring me and for visualizing that everething is possible.

I felt very honored of course by here straight forward comment, and we started talking. It turned out that she owns and runs a travel agency together with her husband, and the name of the agency is GIBE Travel. Zoyas husband is from Ethiopia, and GIBE is therefore specialized on the African market.

Two weeks later we met again at their office in Stockholm, and they are now not only new clients for our service TravelPlanner™, they are also share holders in Traveas AB (publ).

Now that’s what I call a Cinderella story :-)

If you want to see what I talked about on Kapitalmarknadsdagen, just watch the video clip from Grand Hotel.

How to get funded! from Jack Melcher-Claësson on Vimeo.

Need I say that we look very much forward to be in business with Zoya and her team at GIBE Travel!

Cheers!

Posted by Jack Melcher-Claësson in The Traveas Blog |
Published 21 September, 2009
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