New interactive itineraries from Ski.com offer destination recommendations and deliver revenue potential for travel companies.
UNITED STATES – Ski.com, North America’s largest provider of custom ski vacations has teamed up with Umapped, the innovative collaborative itinerary solution, to offer travelers mobile engagement with real-time information that extends to their personal and social networks.
The new alliance with Umapped means that Ski.com will soon be delivering live, interactive itineraries across all major platforms including the web (desktop and mobile) and Ski.com mobile app on iOS and Android. The experiential tool provides travelers with consolidated trip details and curated recommendations to enhance their stay at various resorts. Ski.com is a preferred partner to Travel Leaders, Signature, and American Express.
Travel professionals from these consortia will be able to collaborate with Ski.com and travelers to add additional components to itineraries. In addition, the multi-channel group chat feature will offer seamless, real-time communication between Ski.com, travel professionals, and travelers, opening up the opportunity to generate incremental revenue and engage with customers, creating continuous connections and relationships.
“We are excited to be working with Umapped to collaborate with our consortia and agency partners and to deliver a leading-edge social and mobile experience to our traveling clients,” Ski.com’s president and CEO, Harry Peisach explains. “Beyond the bookings, our travelers will now be able to easily find and view our curated resort recommendations as well as continue to add to their trip plans as a group.“
Travelers of today are driven by social media, and Umapped puts travelers’ needs at the center of everything, with recommendations from influencers, social networks, and friends. Lisa Israelovitch, Umapped’s co-founder, and CEO adds, “We are thrilled to partner with Ski.com. We will be working closely to develop relevant, contextual and real-time offers around the resorts that begin before departure and during the resort stay that deliver value to travelers and untapped revenue for both Ski.com and their agency partners.“
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