Tripster Adds Austin, Texas as its Latest Travel Destination

Saint Louis, Missouri – Tripster, Inc., an online travel agency that provides tickets and reservations for theme parks, shows, attractions, tours, and hotels for over 18 years, announced the addition of another popular travel destination today: Austin, Texas. Austin joins other travel markets such as San Antonio, TX; Seattle, WA; and New Orleans, LA, that launched earlier in 2019.

Austin, TX is a popular vacation choice for many travelers. The eclectic live music scene is a big draw as are the numerous outdoor activities ranging from hiking, biking, and boating. In addition, there are world-class restaurants and shopping as well as thriving breweries and a vibrant arts district to discover. The weather in Austin is ideal almost year-round, too, with over 300 days of sunshine.

More than 27 million people visit Austin, TX, annually. In fact, Austin consistently ranks as one of America’s best cities to visit according to national publications such as US News and World Report and Forbes. Tripster aims to provide these visitors with seamless, convenient access to Austin vacation packages, tour passes, hotels, and more.

“As we continue to expand the vacation destinations we offer to travelers, Austin felt like a welcome addition due to its wide variety of fresh, fun experiences,” said John Johnson, President of Tripster. “This is a destination that appeals to all sectors, from families to retirees and everyone in between. We at Tripster aim to make visiting Austin easy and enjoyable for all.”

Austin, Texas, joins 27 other prominent United States travel destinations in Tripster’s growing portfolio. Tripster’s websites provide travelers an easy-to-use booking solution for attraction and show tickets, hotels, and vacation packages. The company’s proprietary reservation and ticketing engines offer customers a single source for vacation planning and custom package creation for additional savings.

The launch of the Austin market continues Tripster’s guarantee of providing quality vacation experiences to travelers the world over.

About Tripster

Since 2001, Tripster has provided more than 3.5 million travelers with travel planning and reservation services for ticketed events, world-renowned theme parks, area attractions, tours, theatrical shows, as well as hotels in more than 25 destinations across the country. Using a proprietary booking engine, Tripster customers can access first-hand content and reviews to plan, customize, and book entire vacations within a single transaction. In addition, the company also provides reservation and packaging fulfillment services for destination marketing organizations and travel suppliers through white label versions of their system. Tripster is based in St. Louis MO.

Tour & Activity Partners of Tripster Can Now Benefit from Integration with Redeam

With hundreds of suppliers in common, the two tour and activity-based services now make managing fulfillment a snap.

Saint Louis, MO – Tripster, an online travel agency (OTA) specializing in tours and activities in over 25 destinations across the U.S. and Canada, announced a new partnership with Redeam, a leading global connectivity company providing channel management and voucher redemption services to tour and activity operators. The partnership, which centers on an integration between the two companies, will allow travel suppliers who use Redeam’s services to more easily manage fulfillment of Tripster bookings.

“We are always looking to enrich our services for our guests, and fulfillment is key to the overall experience,” said John Johnson, President and CEO of Tripster.  “Working with Redeam will improve our customers’ experience as well as meet the efficiency of account management goals that our travel suppliers seek to benefit from Redeam’s services.”

Redeam now joins the collection of integrations Tripster already has in play such as Rezdy and Fareharbor, among other ticketing platforms.  As Tripster strives to meet the connectivity demands of its travel suppliers, integrating with Redeam, a leader in the tour and activity segment, provides a gateway to maintain and grow its travel supplier partnerships.

“Redeam is forging some incredible partnerships, enabling seamless connectivity between tour and attraction operators and the ecosystem expanding these operators’ go-to-market strategies,” said Melanie Meador, President and CEO of Redeam.  “Empowering distribution allows operators to sell more tickets and book more reservations, and we are thrilled to be working in tandem Tripster to help accomplish these goals, especially within the major travel markets throughout the United States.”

More About Tripster
Since 2001, Tripster has provided more than 3.5 million travelers with travel planning and reservation services for ticketed events, world-renowned theme parks, area attractions, tours, theatrical shows, as well as hotels in more than 25 destinations across the country. Using a proprietary booking engine, Tripster customers can access first-hand content and reviews to plan, customize, and book entire vacations within a single transaction. In addition, the company also provides reservation and packaging fulfillment services for destination marketing organizations and travel suppliers through white label versions of their system. Tripster is based in St. Louis MO.

More About Redeam
Redeam is a five-time award-winning Boulder, CO-based global technology company that empowers the growth of tours, attractions, and activities so that more people can enjoy the world. By utilizing Redeam’s technology, clients can easily scan and process a mobile or paper voucher and eliminate the costly, antiquated, time-consuming, and all-too-common practice of manually accepting, sorting and counting physical tickets—a practice that leads to lost revenue due to fraud, long lines, and bad online reviews. Redeam customers grow both revenue and their number of sales channels through advanced features like Redeam’s channel and yield management. For its innovative solutions, Redeam has won such awards as the 2017 Phocuswright Award for Travel Innovation,2018 Future Travel Experience Startup Competition Winner, and a 2019 Growjo Fastest-Growing Company. Redeam works with hundreds of resellers and serves thousands of operators globally, including one of the world’s largest attraction theme parks, major event venues and boat tours, some of the world’s most-visited museums, and attractions like CitySightseeing/Gray Line New York, Ripley’s Believe It or Not, National Geographic Encounter: Ocean Odyssey, and the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum.