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Jack Melcher-Claësson is an Internet loving entrepreneur, a proud family father, a football freak (soccer that is) and the co-founder of Traveas. Traveas mission is to simplify every journey for travellers around the world.
Dear
Traveas friends and loyal readers of this blog, today is a very special day.
Today is a day all startups dream to achieve and to experience, a huge
milestone in our young company´s history. The day when we reveal the identity
of our first client :-)
So I am
therefore extremely proud to let you know of the partnership between us and VIA
Travel presented earlier today. VIA Travel is a leadingTravel
Management Company in Sweden and the Nordic countries.
Through this partnership we will provide VIA
Travel´s clients with TravelPlanner, a personalized mobile
itinerary containing all relevant and updated information concerning a trip such as flight dates and times,
contact information and a map to their hotel as well as current weather
information for the destination. In addition
to the mobile itinerary the TravelTrackeris activated, so for
any change that occurs the VIA Travel client
automatically receives an SMS update with the latest status of their flight.
Read more about the partnership in the attached
press release.
Congratulations all VIA Travel clients,
welcome to Travel 2.0 and enjoy your new modern and simpler way of
travelling.
I am
extremely proud to say that we have now presented our partnership with SIME
08 (Scandinavian Interactive
Media Event 2008). SIME is the leading event in Northern Europe when it comes
to digital opportunities. This years event is taking place on the 12th
and 13th of November at the Rigoletto Theater at Kungsgatan in
Stockholm, Sweden.
Traveas
role is to provide all international speakers at SIME with
automatically updated status about their flights to Stockholm, directly in
their mobile phone. The speakers will get a personalized mobile itinerary containing all
relevant information about their trip to Stockholm, such as flight dates and
times, name, address and a map to their hotel as well as current weather in
Stockholm. In addition to the mobile itinerary the Traveas TravealTracker
is also activated, so for any change that occurs on the trip the speaker
automatically receives an SMS update with the latest flight status.
I am extra proud to enter the partnership as this year´s theme for SIME
is: The DNA of Change and I truly believe that our services is making change within the travel industry. Firstly by switching the power of the industry from airlines and
companies to travellers and individuals, secondly from an environmental
perspective (more about that in a coming blogpost).
If you haven´t yet decided to visit SIME, maybe this
selection of speakers can help your decision:
Michael
J. Wolf (Author, former President MTV Networks)
David
Sifry (Founder of Technorati)
Hans Rosling (Founder of Gapminder,
professor at Karolinska Institutet)
Joi
Ito (CEO of Creative Commons, Chairman of Six Apart
Japan etc.)
Pelle Törnberg (former CEO Metro,
former CEO MTG.)
Lena K Samuelsson (Editor in Chief at
Svenska Dagbladet)
Net
Jacobsson (Director of International Business Development
at Facebook)
Jack Melcher-Claësson is an Internet loving entrepreneur, a proud family father, a football freak (soccer that is) and the co-founder of Traveas. Traveas mission is to simplify every journey for travellers around the world.
