{"id":162528,"date":"2017-11-20T16:00:07","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T16:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/?p=162528"},"modified":"2017-11-20T16:00:07","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T16:00:07","slug":"travelbook-is-launching-its-open-beta-on-1-december-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/travelbook-is-launching-its-open-beta-on-1-december-2017_162528.html","title":{"rendered":"Travelbook is launching its open beta on 1 December 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\" width:250px; padding:8px 10px 10px 10px; float:right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1511196089.jpeg\" style=\"border:none !important;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-29\" title=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1511196089.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-style:italic; padding:8px 0px;\">To register go to: travelbook.com <\/div>\n<p class=\"BodyA\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/uploads\/d3d7251200880aa9b97daa053a5f92bf.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyA\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>What is Travelbook?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Travelbook is a one-stop travel-sharing community to discover, plan, and book experiences while earning travel coins to get rewarded to explore the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyA\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">First of its kind in the travel industry, Travelbook aims to disrupt the travel industry from a new angle, people travelbooks. Travelbook will allow people to keep, discover, plan and book experiences &mdash; all in one place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyA\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>&ldquo;Every traveler is unique, and we understand that each traveler has his or her own travel experiences. As a result, we&rsquo;ve built a one-stop travel platform to discover, search, plan, and book experiences. People are using travelbook to keep and share their travel experiences in one, easy accessible place.&rdquo;&nbsp; <\/em><strong><em>Dean Kelly, founder of Travelbook.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyA\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MSQm14H4t9M\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Video Link: <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MSQm14H4t9M\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MSQm14H4t9M<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyA\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Founders<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyA\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dean Kelly and Natalie Glebova, who is former Miss Universe,&nbsp; founded the company in February 2017. They are both entrepreneurs and avid travelers with over 100 countries visited, who found that the digital travel journey is much too fragmented.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyA\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a press interview at Skift Travel Forum 2017, Natalie Glebova, co-founder and pitch woman says: <em>&ldquo;We saw a need arising from our own experience, of a platform that allows us to combine all elements of travel in one place, from looking for inspiration to travel, to booking and planning the trip<\/em>, <em>to ultimately being able to share that experience with our friends and followers.&rdquo; <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyA\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Travelbook enables travelers to: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyA\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2714<em> Organize, access and share travelbooks; photos, videos, and favorite experiences <\/em><br \/>\u2714<em> See friends&rsquo; travel adventures to get inspired <\/em><br \/>\u2714<em> Plan trips with trusted friends&rsquo; travel advice and top travelers recommendations <\/em><br \/>\u2714<em> Receive offers and special packages <\/em><br \/>\u2714<em> Earn travel points to get rewarded <\/em><br \/>\u2714<em> Get involved to help worthy social causes<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyA\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Travelbook enables travel <\/strong><strong>brands<\/strong><strong> to<\/strong><strong>: <\/strong><br \/>\u2714<em> Reach and inspire travelers by developing professional and targeted business pages<\/em><br \/>\u2714<em> Tailor-make promotions to increase demand for direct-bookings<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyA\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>&ldquo;Our vision is to help and inspire the travelers` passion to explore new experiences with a stunning travel-dedicated platform full of photos, videos and one-click links to destinations, that will help develop an authentic community of trusted friends based on their recommendations and advice. If you think travel, go to <\/em><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/travelbook.com\/\">travelbook.com<\/a> <em>and get inspired!&ldquo; <\/em><strong><em>Natalie Glebova, pitch woman for Travelbook<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyA\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Who is the target market?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyA\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Travelbook has a global reach, with the first focus market in the USA, followed by Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, Philippines, Malaysia&nbsp; &amp; Indonesia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyA\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Travelbook caters to travelers,&nbsp; travel bloggers,&nbsp; and travel influencers. At the same time we provide the travel\/hospitality players with business pages to showcase their brands, and at a later stage, with privileged access to advertising assets and active e-comments service on the social aspects of the B2C platform.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyA\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>David vs Goliath<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyA\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Facebook, Inc. is currently opposing to Travelbook, Inc.&rsquo;s trademark in some classes, and the trial is happening at the U.S. Trademark law.&nbsp; <em>&ldquo;This is a typical case of corporate bullying, and <\/em>w<em>e&rsquo;ll protect our trademark to the best of our abilities. Our legal team is strong, and ready to give a good fight.&rdquo;<\/em> Said Dean Kelly, founder &amp; CEO of Travelbook.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyA\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>About Travelbook, Inc.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyA\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Founded by Dean Kelly &amp; Natalie Glebova in February 2017 and based in New York City, Travelbook is an online one-stop travel-sharing community to discover, plan, and book experiences while earning travel coins to get rewarded to explore the world &mdash; from&nbsp; any of your desktop or mobile devices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyA\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Travelbook has helped to connect thousands of travelers through their travel-sharing community since launching the closed-beta 6 months ago.&nbsp; Currently Travelbook is focused on building a product people love with roughly 10,000 users enjoying the platform and finding inspiration for their travels daily.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyA\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Travelbook is a new way for people to keep and share travel experiences with photos, videos, and check-ins in one easily accessible place.&nbsp; This will be the best <em>&ldquo;traveler to traveler<\/em>&rdquo; experience-sharing community for the new generation of travelers that we call <em>&ldquo;Generation wanderlust.&rdquo;<\/em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyA\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">We are excited to announce that we&rsquo;ve teamed up with <strong>sparkraise.com<\/strong> to launch our first crowd funding in Asia. See it here: <strong>http:\/\/bit.ly\/TravelbookCrowdFunding<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style='font-size:18px !important;'>Media Contact<\/span><br \/><strong>Company Name:<\/strong> Travelbook <br \/><strong>Contact Person:<\/strong> Dean Kelly <br \/><strong>Email:<\/strong> dean@travelbook.com<br \/><strong>Phone:<\/strong> +1 646 575 6731 <br \/><strong>Country:<\/strong> United States<br \/><strong>Website:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelbook.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.travelbook.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><object type=\"text\/html\" data=\"http:\/\/www.travelbook.com\" style=\"width:605px; height:400px;\"><\/object><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/press_stat.php?pr=travelbook-is-launching-its-open-beta-on-1-december-2017\" alt=\"\" width=\"1px\" height=\"1px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To register go to: travelbook.com What is Travelbook? Travelbook is a one-stop travel-sharing community to discover, plan, and book experiences while earning travel coins to get rewarded to explore the world. First of its kind in the travel industry, Travelbook &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/travelbook-is-launching-its-open-beta-on-1-december-2017_162528.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[401],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}