Tripzon

Trip itinerary packaging and booking platform for travel professionals.


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Book the Perfect Trip with Tripzon

Tripzon™ is the first dynamic packaging platform where users can plan and book complex trips. We’ve built the first “smart itinerary” system for flights, hotels, activities, car, and other travel components. Unlike traditional online sites, our itinerary-based system lets you have as many destinations and items in one complete trip, saving time and money. Our vision is to make it easy for travel professionals and users to create great trips, customized to their imagination.

The “Holy Grail” of Travel

The online travel-packaging model is broken. Book a hotel, flight and car - easy. But a multi-destination trip with multiple items is painful! Users must piece together components from a variety of sources, without a complete view. Tripzon has solved this long-standing travel problem with a system for both consumers and travel professionals. Users can finally build and book custom, multi-destination packages from a single website. Our unique packaging technology creates a “smart itinerary” to manage the entire trip, saving time, money, and missed connections.

Product/Service Details

Tripzon’s proprietary cloud-based technology and SaaS-based user-interface dramatically reduces the required time (from days to 30 minutes or less) to research, configure, and book a complex custom travel experience. Through a single intuitive user interface flights, hotels, autos, transfers, events, activities, and points-of-interest are combined into Tripzon’s “Smart Itinerary” and can be purchased with a single button push.  This “Smart Itinerary” is platform portable, socially sharable, and real-time connected though Tripzon’s upcoming mobile application.

Traction & Accomplishments

Tripzon’s solution has resonated with travel professionals and consumers alike. Our go-to-market strategy is through Travel Professions - Tour operators, cruise lines, event planners and travel agents - who book $15B in complex travel annually but lack the technology to capture the business online. Our alpha launched in 2013, generating over $100K in revenue. Our beta launch is planned for May 2014. Tripzon recently signed up 3 major travel partners, representing 25,000 in annual bookings. We have signed up over 100 travel agents for our TripzoPro™  edition. Our fundraise will support the roll-out of our platfrom to our partner sites. Tripzon won the Silver Award at the 2013 Mass Challenge competition. Our progress has been noted in recent news articles including the Boston Herald.

"A new website offers the kind of one-stop shopping that many travel sites aren’t designed to handle" - BizSmart, "Travel startup specializes in complex trips", Boston Herald, March 31, 2014.

Team

Gene Zimon - Chairman

Expererienced Tech Leader and angel investor 


Gene is currently president of EDGE Advisers, which he founded to assist early-stage companies develop their business model and go to market strategies. Gene is also Manager of JAZFund, LLC, an investment fund focusing on early-stage companies providing on-line travel, energy management, medical technology and e-commerce platforms. He is an active member of Launchpad Ventures,and Walnut Ventures and serves on several Boards and advisory Boards. Prior in becoming an angel investor, Gene spent 35 years in managerial and executive positions in information technology including serving as CIO of three NYCE traded companies.


Chris Bensley - Founder and VP Operations

Travel and Technology Executive with 20+ years in Travel Management and Technology Development 


Chris is a travel industry leader, experienced entrepreneur, and technology proponent. He has held executive positions at Vantage Travel, Paul Gauguin Cruises, Grand Circle, and Overseas Adventure Travel. Chris launched several startups and was co-founder and COO of EstateWorks, where he pioneered automation of estate settlement. Chris founded Tripzon to simplify custom travel. His charge is to deliver an industry-leading planning + booking platform for travel partners. Chris has an MBA from UCLA Anderson School and a BA from Dartmouth College.


Keith - MacKay

Software development executive with expertise in building scale platforms 


Keith is an experienced tech team leader, visionary, and experienced entrepreneur. Over the last decade he has driven leading-edge technology platform and product development. His exceptional record of product innovation with start-up and high-growth digital media and technology ventures, with a focus on direct to consumer services. His early ventures played a major part in creating the mobile entertainment industry. Keith is focused on delivering an innovating, engaging and indispensable user experience.


Martin Tuncaydin - Chief Engineer

Experienced travel technology builder 


Martin is a master coder and product builder. He has as built, developed and maintained travel booking engines that cater to all segment types and providers. Past projects include integration with Amadeus, Sabre, HotelBeds, RoomBanx, TravelGuard, VAX, Tourico, PayFlow Pro, SkyLink and many more. Martin’s motto is “anything can be connected” and his British accent will have you believing. Martin is a genius at problem solving and king coder at Tripzon.


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