tripJane - Social travel

Online travel has been around for fourteen years, yet little has changed since its beginning. The basics of booking a flight have remained the same, only now there is more of everything: more options, more information, and greater price transparency.

These tools are helpful, yet you are still forced to manually create and compare itineraries across multiple sites: more headaches. Travel 1.0 was all about offering you the ability to buy online, a great improvement over having to actually visit a travel agency. Travel 1.5 brought meta-search engines and the ability to compare data from multiple sites, but you still have to manually filter results and once you make your
selection you are redirected to the booking site to complete your transaction.

Here you are, back at square one. Buying travel via online is a painful process. Even when you know your way around travel sites, it takes time, effort and luck (and a LOT of patience) to find the ticket that works for you.

TripJane is focused on radically improving your online travel booking experience. We are initially focusing on the traveler most often ignored by online travel sites: business travelers. We want to make buying and sharing online travel effortlessfor you. 2008 is a very important year. We are currently testing our private alpha release on Facebook, the world’s best social network. Over the coming months you can expect to see many enhancements on tripJane.

SIMPLIFIES BUSINESS TRAVEL

Vision and strategy

TripJane takes care of business travel from start-to-end. It also has a highly advanced user interface that allows business travelers to enter their travel needs pretty much the way one tells an assistant. tripJane also aggregates multiple sources of content to provide the best possible alternative, from low cost airlines to traditional carriers.

Upon a business traveler sending a request, tripJane’s filter algorithms (with language capabilities, personal knowledge of travel habits, preferences, and destinations) provide relevant results quickly, intuitively and easily. Just the airlines, the flight times, the destinations and the connections a traveler wants. Thus, no more time is wasted with irrelevant information.

Once an itinerary is selected and a traveler purchases a ticket, tripJane allows business travelers to easily share their travel with colleagues, staff and friends. The traveler is always in control of the itinerary with sharing and delegation a click away.

Subsequent requests, confirmations and changes are accessed in each traveler profile and easily modified via the traveler’s calendar app, web browser, phone or PDA. Travelers can use tripJane from anywhere, anytime and from any device.

During the entire process, tripJane users can share their experiences with other members of the tripJane community, From tips to tricks and from best itineraries to best hotels, the tripJane social network allows business travelers to learn form each other in a secured, peer-based, environment.

Overall, the tripJane service offers the following benefits:

• Power Search: Automatically shop fares from hundreds of travel sites, so you don’t have to.

• Intelligent Results: Awesome, easy-to-browse results, makes it a breeze to compare your options

• Easy Booking: tripJane completes your booking in seconds and simplifies your travel arrangements.

• Travel with Ease: Cool tools that automatically prepare you for your trip.

In a nutshell, tripJane provides results when a traveler wants them, the way a business traveler wants to see them. With tripJane, business travelers receive relevant options and an easy interface to simplify the pre and post purchase of their business travel.

Web: www.tripjane.com