Tripster Celebrates 15 Years of Milestones

St. Louis, Missouri – October 28, 2016 –Tripster is celebrating 15 years of providing travelers with complete vacation planning and booking services. Since the launch of its first destination in Branson, Missouri, the now fifteen year old travel company is settings its sights on even more growth.  After an initial  three years as a single market provider, the company  launched 12 new markets in as many years, growing revenues over $32 million annually.  Now with more than 40 employees, the company is targeting more destinations where customers can benefit from their complete destination planning services.

With an average of almost one hundred thousand vacations processed annually, Tripster has been building a large customer following, enhanced by its recent branding  and marketing campaigns geared to engage those travelers even more.  These customers look to Tripster for its first-hand reviews and insight, now featuring almost 5,000 travel articles that offer tips, news, and shared experiences.  And, with a customer rating of over 98%, these happy travelers are proving to be the key to Tripster’s  success.

“It’s great to be here 15 years later, celebrating the success of Tripster,” said John Johnson, Founder and President of Tripster.  “We took the concierge concept and moved it into the dynamic space of the Internet at a time when nobody was serving that niche online.  And we thrived not only because of our attention to usability and technology, but mainly because we love what we do.  We love to travel and we find great satisfaction  making our customers’ vacation experience better.”

In its 15 years, the company has contracted with over 2,000  travel products. Partnerships feature some of the most popular tourist attractions in the country, including Walt Disney World®, Herschend Family Entertainment, Ripley® Entertainment, Busch Gardens® and SeaWorld® Entertainment. Because Reserve Direct is focused on complete destination planning, they also provide  many local adventures, tours, and other experience-based attractions. Whether your vacation includes taking the family to LEGOLAND®, a Broadway show in New York City, a zipline through the Smoky Mountains, or whale watching off the coast of Maui, Reserve Direct helps travelers find the experience they desire.

Beyond their consumer-direct model, Tripster continues to enhance and expand its efforts in providing white label reservation services.  Using their proprietary system, and repurposing it for travel suppliers, hotels, theme parks and even Destination Marketing Organizations, the company provides an instrumental piece of vacation planning:fulfillment.  With over 240 white labels positioned  throughout all of their markets—generating nearly 40% of its revenues—travel suppliers are able to seamlessly partner and package with each other to increase their own online conversions.

As they celebrate the milestone, the company is already looking forward to the launch of several new markets to include San Francisco, Las Vegas, Toronto and Washington D.C., to name a few. Further, Tripster plans to become even more a part of the consumer vacation with the development of an app to enhance the user experience, fulfillment, and bring added value to their services.  Likewise, initial development has begun  to integrate more of the travel component to their model with the addition of flights and rental cars to close the loop, from planning, booking, traveling, and experiencing as a whole—all through Tripster.

About Tripster

Since 2001, Tripster has provided more than 2.5 million travelers with destination-specific travel planning and reservation services for ticketed events, world-renowned theme parks, adventure activities, tours, theatrical and music shows, plus hotels and lodging. Using a proprietary booking engine, Tripster customers can access first-hand content and reviews to plan and book entire vacations within a single transaction. In addition, the Company also provides destination marketing organizations and travel suppliers reservation and packaging fulfillment services through white label versions of their proprietary system. Tripster is based in St. Louis MO and currently operates dedicated destination websites in Branson, MO; Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg, TN; Myrtle Beach, SC; Williamsburg, VA; New York, NY; San Diego and Los Angeles, CA; Chicago, IL; the Hawaiian Islands; Destin, Panama City Beach, St. Augustine and Orlando, FL.