Posts Tagged ‘email composer’

Traveas goes train, signs deal with Linkon

Monday, December 19th, 2011

For the first time in Traveas history, we will now be able to offer our enriched booking services to other areas within the travel industry besides flights, such as train and bus operators.

We will do so after signing a commercial deal with Linkon, the largest hub and booking system in Sweden when it comes to train and bus traffic. Linkon was founded in 2000. The company is an independent and neutral supplier of online booking system solutions for the travel industry.

Linkon clients include amongst others SJ, Veolia, Swebus to name a few.

We are really proud that Linkon have given us the trust to deliver enhanced and enriched booking services to their clients.

To read more about the commercial deal, read this pressrelease (in Swedish).

Cheers!

/ Jack and the Traveas team!

 

Traveas update

Friday, September 16th, 2011

Hi all Traveas friends!

First of all, sorry for the lack of activity on the blog lately. It has nothing to do with lazyness nor inactivity in our business. On the contrary, we´ve kept ourselves quite busy. In fact, so busy that the daily operations have eaten up all our time. Motto: Business first, then blog about it :-)

Anyhow, this will therefore be an attempt to summarize the past months:

First of all, we´ve now successfully launched the Email Composer service for our first travel clients. If you´ve missed out on how it works, check out this clip:

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Thereafter we´ve applied our tehnology on new industries, opening up a whole new market for Traveas. For instance, we´ve succesfully launched a tailored Email Composer version for the Swedish Golf Association, that handles all bookings of tee off times, for every golf club in Sweden (more than 500 clubs).

This means that all Swedish golfers, including the other fellow players in a ball, get an enriched email confirmation about their booking. In short, besides facts about their tee off time, handicap status, they also get local and relevant information. To mention a few examples:

- Weather forecast

- Special offers on golf balls, clubs, clothing etc

- Golf trips

- Green fee guests will get a map with directions to get there

Wanna see how it looks? Check this out:

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Traveas have suddenly, over night, become the biggest and by far most precise golf media in Sweden. We send approx 10 million emails to active golfers during 2011. I´ll get back further on with more details about this new golf media.

Further on, in the aftermath of us now being somewhat of a media company, we sell advertising space. Looking back on the portfolio of brands we´ve attracted as advertisers and sponsors, we´re really proud :-) For the travel media we see leading players within ground transportations, hotels, exchange institutions, banks, insurance etc.

For our golf media we´ve seen leading companies within all golf associated brands, as well as banks, cars, watches etc.

I´ll settle for this for now, but I will return within shortly with more information, fun deals and stories to be told from inside the Traveas team :-)

Cheers!

/ Jack

Scanworld goes for enriched booking confirmations

Thursday, February 3rd, 2011

Hi, back again with more good news.

If you remember, first out to sign a contract for our Email Composer was BIG Travel, Doodle and Flygpoolen.

Next out is Scanworld, one of the largest privately held business travel agencies in Sweden.

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This means that all Scanworld clients will receive enriched booking confirmations from Traveas, based upon our concept Email Composer. Besides the pure facts about a trip, such as flight times, terminal information, booking confirmations etc, the enriched booking confirmations contains other valuable information such as:

  • Weather forecast and exchange rates for the destination
  • Social media connections
  • Alternative ways to get to and from the airport
  • Destination guides
  • Other local and relevant information such as tickets to concerts and sports events
  • Restaurant table bookings

All this information is profitable, and all revenues that the booking confirmations generates is shared back to Scanworld.

This means that all Scanworld travellers can access the most relevant information about their trip, and at the same time Scanworld can drive totally new revenue streams, that they never would get themselves.

To learn more about Email Composer click here, and to read more about the cooperation, see our Press room:

Once again, we wish the Scanworld team more than welcome to Traveas.

We will be back with more news later on, so bye for now, cheers!

/ Jack

A brand new media channel is born

Thursday, February 3rd, 2011

A while ago we presented some very special and for us groundbreaking news, our agreement with the Swedish Golf Associtiation (SGF).

SGF is the central organization behind all official golf clubs and golfers in Sweden, approx 500 golf clubs and half a million active golf players.

Each time a golfer books a start time for a round of golf, or is a part of a booking that someone else does, a booking confirmation is sent to the golfer via email.

From this year (2011) and forward, these email confirmations will look different. Instead of just being facts about a start time, printed in plain text, the email sendouts will be enriched, using our platform Email Composer.

Email composer will not only send out a nicely designed html-version of the confirmation, it will also contain lots of other local information, relevant to a golfer. Examples of information that Traveas will enriche the email with is:

  • A map and directions to the golfcourse
  • Tips of places to eat at or stay over night
  • Great offers for golf equipment, such as golf balls, shoes, clubs etc

Just to mention a few things.

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During 2011 approximately 15 000 0000 transaction emails of such kind will be sent, all based on the unique information of:

  • Who´s playing
  • When he´s playing
  • Where he´s playing

This makes us become the largest and most accurate golf media in Sweden. The email sendouts are planned to be launched as the golf season 2011 kicks of later on this spring.

For more information about the cooperation, please check our Press room here:

Cheers!

/ Jack

Traveas launches Premium Service for Destination Guides

Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011

We are proud to present the launch of our Premium Service for Destination Guides.

The Premium feature for Destination Guides is a natural part of our Email Composer function, providing a traveler with relevant facts and local information about what´s going on at the destination.

Besides pure facts about a city, for instance population, currency and emergency numbers, the function also provides the traveler with uniquely segmented offers on the local destination. Examples of offers could be local transportations, tickets to an sports or music event, book a table at a popular restaurant etc.

We also offer local destination guides, for the traveler to download before or during his trip.

Our first Premium partner to work with this new value and revenue driving concept is the Gothenburg based company Fastcheck, and their digital Destination Guides Arrival Guides.

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Through this partnership we cover more than 400 destinations, on more than 20 different languages.

Read more about this partnership in our Press room.

Stay tuned for more info from Traveas.

Cheers!

/ Jack