From the CEO - Well, we WON “Innovator of the Year” : Tripology Travel Agent Blog

April 9, 2009

From the CEO - Well, we WON “Innovator of the Year”

Hello all. I’ve been traveling and I’m sorry there haven’t been too many posts. I was in Atlanta for TravelCom. It was a wonderful conference. The US Travel Association (formerly TIA) did a great job, especially in light of the economy. (Are you a member? If not, you should be. Go to www.ustravel.org) I was posting tweets from the conference so I hope you had the chance to read those. If not, be sure to follow us at www.twitter.com/tripology

I’m most happy to announce that we won the “Innovator of the Year” award.

I’m very proud of our team. So you know, I accepted the award “on behalf of my team, all the travel professionals out there who are sick are hearing about the demise of travel agents and on behalf of all naysayers who said travel agents are dead.” Well, obviously, travel agents are not and Tripology is happy to prove that.

John T. Peters accepts the "Innovator of the Year" award at TravelCom in Atlanta

Further to the point, Forrester presented some updated research. Did you know that 26% of online travelers would rather, yes rather, use a good offline travel agent if they could find the right one? Enter Tripology and hence the Innovator of the Year award. People are tired of trying to fit their custom vacations into online booking engines. It doesn’t work.

So thanks for helping us win this award. Keep up the good work!

Happy selling.

John

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