In each case, it will dynamically take the address from the event venue and find the available hotels nearby, plus find driving time and directions and optionally rent a car or buy an airline ticket.
This is accomplished with a one-time configuration effort that should literally take less than a couple of hours to map your data elements to our dynamic variables and have your tool(s) live on your system for testing. We jump in and help with the testing so that you can implement literally within days of making your decision to become the “smarter” Event Ticketing and Registration system.[/boc_accordion][boc_accordion title=”Smart Map is a feature of the Smart Trip Tool”]Anywhere that you would normally put a map, you can now have our Smart Map. This allows you to provide even more value to the end user who is planning how to get to the event. Once they know where it is being held, they can get driving directions, optionally rent a car or buy and airline ticket and if they need or want a hotel room, it is all right there.[/boc_accordion][boc_accordion title=”Smart Event – to promote individual speakers and event exhibitors”]Using our dynamic widget or the CLONE feature in our portal, you can take a widget for a specific event and clone it to feature Keynote speakers and exhibitors. The individual pages can then be used in conjunction with our Social Sharing feature to allow the PR person from your speakers and exhibitors to promote the event on your behalf. This provides the added benefit of allowing the event manager to track the referral traffic from those that actually attend the event as a result of seeing the Smart Event tool.[/boc_accordion][boc_accordion title=”Smarter travel to your offices – To be installed on your corporate website as a VISIT US page”]Connect.Space can add the Smart Trip tool to your website as a VISIT US page. This will allow anyone that is traveling to your offices, whether driving or flying to get driving directions and book a hotel nearby. In just minutes, you can have a custom tool for each of your facilities, using our “cloning” feature.[/boc_accordion][boc_accordion title=”Smart Giving – To benefit any of your 501c3 non-profit clients”]The Smart Trip tool can be added to any non-profit event landing pages on any of your sites to allow anyone traveling to an event to find a hotel nearby. Best of all, we donate 25% of our revenues to the 501c3 in your name. This is in addition to the 10% royalty on all revenues from the use of the tool for all of your clients.[/boc_accordion][boc_accordion title=”How would it work if we also offer block hotel room management”]
TripProximity can co-exist with Blocked Space as a part of the Connect Space offering. You can give event managers the choice of whether they want to do an RFP for space, which is a guessing game at best, or whether they want to let attendees book their own room nearby and receive a percentage of the revenues back in a royalty. As a third option, if they choose blocked space, the TripProximity capability can be added to their site once the block expires.
Blocked space in a hotel is a mechanism that has allowed event managers to take greater control of the logistics of their event, but in some ways that sense of control is hollow.
- Event attendees often book outside the block to get their preferred brand/points and/or a better rate . #ChoiceMatters
- Blocked room rates are often similar to the discounted rates offered by online travel sites (TripProximity gives a 110% best rate guarantee that our rates are the lowest published rates online) #GuaranteesMatter
- The inventory for blocked rates often is not available when the event date is announced and the block is closed out often a week or two in advance of the event, not allowing for last minute registrations/ticket sales (we can book rooms 330 days out from the event and until the last day of the event) #AvailabilityMatters
- Managing blocked room RFPs and the block itself is time consuming #TimeMatters
For more background on why a better mousetrap is needed for event housing, click HERE.[/boc_accordion][/boc_accordion_section][/boc_tab][boc_tab title=”Unique Features” icon=”icon icon-new”][boc_accordion_section with_bgr=”yes” border=”yes”][boc_accordion title=”The Portal” is_open=”yes”]You will have your own portal with TripProximity, which provides you access to your usage statistics, the Smart Tool builder, which allows you to create, edit and clone, plus a tool to help you estimate the revenue stream from the royalty for your client base.
[/boc_accordion][boc_accordion title=”Address lookup”]If the user wishes to travel to a different destination, they can type in their destination using the pencil.
[/boc_accordion][boc_accordion title=”Social Sharing”]Once the Smart Trip Tool is displayed, the user can choose to share the widget with friends/family. The widget can be linked back to the ticket purchase page.
[/boc_accordion][boc_accordion title=”Smarter Driving Directions”]TripProximity now handles multi-day trip planning by allowing the user to define the number of hours per day that they would like to drive. This then calculates the actual driving time, versus the driving straight throughmethod that Google uses.
[/boc_accordion][boc_accordion title=”Smarter Car Rental”]TripProximity now allows the user to specify whether they want to drive or fly to their destination, which changes where you would pick up your car rental.
[/boc_accordion][/boc_accordion_section][/boc_tab][boc_tab title=”Event Widget” icon=”icon icon-flag2″][boc_accordion_section with_bgr=”yes” border=”yes”][boc_accordion title=”The Event Widget” is_open=”yes”]The Event widget is one of our Smart Trip tools. It allows you to dynamically embed trip planning in any event in your system.
It is distinct from the Venue widget in that it has a specific date range for the event and a location where the event is held.
The next section includes your snippet. Then you will find the instructions for our Dynamic tool, which shows you how to substitute your data for our variables in real time, so that you only have to install the widget snippet once. Once it is installed, if you wish to make changes, you can edit the base elements of the widget in the Portal and you do not have to reinstall the snippet. See the defaults in the last section.[/boc_accordion][boc_accordion title=”Your dynamic code snippet for CONNECT SPACE (use with variable fields outlined below)”]
<script type="text/javascript" data-id="tp-widget" data-token="UzijjiFiGyc882Biw3d4e26vRE70n2506fV5luQ466uIQmhl511U1Y484lCXgXT2" src="https://widget.tripproximity.com/js/widget.min.js"></script><div class="tp-widget" id="tp-widget"></div>[/boc_accordion][boc_accordion title=”Dynamic Tool – Customizing with variables from your system”]Add the dynamic variable elements that you wish to pass at display time to the appropriate widget snippet. They should be preceded by the following two lines. Follow the variables with the closing code segment, shown in green.
We’ve included the recommended variables for Connect Space (shown encased in %VARIABLENAME% signs, which you will strip out in your actual entry):
| <script type=”text/javascript”> |
| tripWidget({ |
| eventStart: ‘YYYY/MM/DD’, |
| eventEnd: ‘YYYY/MM/DD’, |
| headerText: ‘Plan your trip to ‘, |
| appendPOI: ‘Y’, |
| poiName: ‘%EVENTNAME%’, |
| address: ‘%STREET%, %CITY%,%STATE%,%POSTCODE%’, |
| mapTab: ‘0’, |
| trackingCode: ‘%CUSTOMERTRACKINGINFO%’, |
| imageUrl: ‘%IMAGEURL%’, |
| imageLink: ‘%IMAGELINK%’, |
| }) |
| </script> |
| Once you have the code installed, contact us with the test link and we will help to test on multiple platforms and on multiple browsers. |
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[/boc_accordion][/boc_accordion_section][/boc_tab][boc_tab title=”Venue Widget” icon=”icon icon-flag2″][boc_accordion_section with_bgr=”yes” border=”yes”][boc_accordion title=”The Venue Widget (dynamic)” is_open=”yes”]The Venue widget is one of our Smart Trip tools. It allows you to embed trip planning on any page in your system or on your site or blog where there is a contact with an address. A venue can be a physical place, like a company or a museum, or it can be a location like a park or a beach. As long as we can pinpoint a latitude/longitude, we can “trip enable” the contact record.
This tool is distinct from the Event widget in that the dates of travel are relative to the date that the tool is displayed, e.g. travel 7 days from today for 1 night.
Click the HDQ widget above to see the widget for the Connect.Space corporate website for people traveling to see your HDQ staff.
The next section includes your snippet. Then you will find the instructions for our Dynamic tool, which shows you how to substitute your data for our variables in real time, so that you only have to install the widget snippet once. Once it is installed, if you wish to make changes, you can edit the base elements of the widget in the Portal and you do not have to reinstall the snippet. See the defaults in the last section.[/boc_accordion][boc_accordion title=”Your code snippet (paste in as Text or in a Raw HTML container) for HDQ”]
<script type="text/javascript" data-id="tp-widget" data-token="aWR5NdVH6nj72uo4XL4bQ1wUB0XF562W0z0Oui1D2ab46y56gIy7rGLq0Snl1G03" src="https://widget.tripproximity.com/js/widget.min.js" async onload="tripWidget()"></script><div class="tp-widget" id="tp-widget"></div>[/boc_accordion][boc_accordion title=”Your code snippet for Venue (use with variable fields outlined below)”]
<script type="text/javascript" data-id="tp-widget" data-token="zbVJV58WC27143U47cK2XVJ52J5kHbJCmixZ380bt93ZRWNb51s0dL7wm32UX3gW" src="https://widget.tripproximity.com/js/widget.min.js"></script><div class="tp-widget" id="tp-widget"></div>[/boc_accordion][boc_accordion title=”Dynamic Tool – Customizing with variables from your system”]Add to the widget snippet the dynamic variable elements that you wish to pass at display time, preceded by the following two lines (your snippet). Follow the variables with the closing code segment.
We’ve included the recommended variables for Connect Space (shown encased in %VARIABLENAME% signs, which you will strip out in your actual entry):
| <script type=”text/javascript”> |
| tripWidget({ |
| daysFromToday: ‘7’, |
| numberOfDays: ‘1’, |
| headerText: ‘Plan your trip to ‘, |
| appendPOI: ‘Y’, |
| poiName: ‘%CONTACTNAME%’, |
| address: ‘%STREET%, %CITY%,%STATE%,%POSTCODE%’, |
| mapTab: ‘1’, |
| trackingCode: ‘%CUSTOMERTRACKINGINFO%’, |
| imageUrl: ‘%IMAGEURL%’, |
| imageLink: ‘%IMAGELINK%’, |
| }) |
| </script> |
| The conditional MapTab flag is new. |
| 1. If there is no address in the contact record, set to 0. The system will display the hotel page which will allow them to look up the company name or start typing an address and it will complete. |
| 2. If you have a full address or just city/state, set to 1, it will default to the map. If there is no %STREET%, the hotel widget will default to the text in the portal for address, which is instructional on looking up the exact address. |
| Once you have the code installed, contact us with the test link and we will help to test on multiple platforms and on multiple browsers. |
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[/boc_accordion][/boc_accordion_section][/boc_tab][boc_tab title=”Brand Choices” icon=”icon icon-heart3″][boc_accordion_section rounded=”yes” with_bgr=”yes”][boc_accordion title=”What brands can I choose from for the booking system that the traveler sees?”]Depending on how you implement the widget, you may have a different need for targeted messaging in the booking system. For example, for a calendaring implementation, you may want to use TheHotelsNearby Companies. Or for a contact management system, just TheHotelsNearby. Or if you are designating all of the upside from using the widget to your favorite charity, you can use TravelingToGive. The next selection shows you all of the possibilities.
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| The default refid is 5135 and the default brand is The Hotels Nearby. | |||||
| To change the brand to one of our niche brands, you must use the combination of the refid and reflickid2 below. These can be overridden at transaction time by using the refid and refclickid2 variables. | |||||
| refid= | Brand | refclickid2= | |||
| 5135 | The Hotels Nearby | ||||
| 6832 | The Hotels Nearby Amusement Parks | hotelbyattractions | |||
| 6832 | The Hotels Nearby Assisted Living | hotelsbyamusementparks | |||
| 6832 | The Hotels Nearby Attractions | hotelsbyassistedliving.com | |||
| 6832 | The Hotels Nearby Bloggers | hotelsbybloggers | |||
| 6832 | The Hotels Nearby Companies | hotelsbycompanies | |||
| 6832 | The Hotels Nearby Convention Centers | hotelsbyconventioncenters | |||
| 6832 | The Hotels Nearby Cruise Ports | hotelsbycruiseports | |||
| 6832 | The Hotels Nearby Doctors | hotelsbydoctors | |||
| 6832 | The Hotels Nearby Embassies | hotelsbyembassies | |||
| 6856 | The Hotels Nearby Events | hotelsbyevents | |||
| 6832 | The Hotels Nearby Festivals | hotelsbyfestivals | |||
| 6832 | The Hotels Nearby Funeral Homes | hotelsbyfuneralhomes | |||
| 6988 | The Hotels Nearby Golf Courses | hotelsbygolfcourses | |||
| 6832 | The Hotels Nearby Hospice | hotelsbyhospice | |||
| 6855 | The Hotels Nearby Hospitals | hotelsbyhospitals | |||
| 6832 | The Hotels Nearby Military Bases | hotelsbymilitarybases | |||
| 6832 | The Hotels Nearby Museums | hotelsbymuseums | |||
| 6832 | The Hotels Nearby Nursing Homes | hotelsbynursinghomes | |||
| 6832 | The Hotels Nearby Places | hotelsbyplaces | |||
| 6832 | The Hotels Nearby Prisons | hotelsbyprisons | |||
| 6832 | The Hotels Nearby Racetracks | hotelsbyracetracks | |||
| 6832 | The Hotels Nearby Spas | hotelsbyspas | |||
| 6832 | The Hotels Nearby Theatres | hotelsbytheatres | |||
| 6832 | The Hotels Nearby Trainstations | hotelsbytrainstations | |||
| 6857 | The Hotels Nearby Universities | hotelsbyuniversities | |||
| 6832 | The Hotels Nearby Wineries | hotelsbywineries | |||
| 6832 | The Hotels Nearby Zoos | hotelsbyzoos | |||
| 7028 | TravelingtoGIVE | ||||
[/boc_accordion][boc_accordion title=”Private Label Branding”]Can we use our own brand? Absolutely!
For a one time fee of $1500 you can provide your own header artwork to us for the booking back end.[/boc_accordion][/boc_accordion_section][/boc_tab][boc_tab title=”Unique Aspects of the Integration” icon=”icon icon-plugin”][boc_accordion_section rounded=”yes” with_bgr=”yes”][boc_accordion title=”Tech Tips” is_open=”yes”]Following are tips for the technical integration of TripProximity.[/boc_accordion][boc_accordion title=”External System Interaction”]The TripProximity widget interacts with the following systems:
- Google Places for lookup of the venues and addresses in the address field
- Google Maps for lookup of the latitude/longitude of any address
Once the input from the widget is received, we pass a search string to our booking system. It contains:
- Brand to be displayed in the booking system
- Travel parameters
- Tracking information to provide reporting back to you for each client
[/boc_accordion][boc_accordion title=”CSS”]The widget has its own style sheet that governs the display of the widget within a container.
[/boc_accordion][boc_accordion title=”Rules for Display”]The widget can be populated with event and venue information, as well as contact information. Ideally, the widget needs the full address to do a lookup of the hotels nearby.
If you only have a city/state, we recommend that you use the conditional map field to display the map with city/state, but to prompt the user to use the Google Places functionality to look up the name of the organization, venue or street address of the place that they are going.
The date fields for events can be coupled with a business rule. For instance if you have an event that begins before noon, you may want to set the date of arrival to 1 day before the event begins. If the event ends after 3pm, you may want to set the date of departure to 1 day after the event.
Just a reminder, even if there is no address or a partial address (city/state), our new widget with the Google Places lookup can find the precise address of the venue or company that they are visiting (even a Starbucks or TopGolf! or finding a hotel near someone’s house that works from home).[/boc_accordion][boc_accordion title=”Dynamic versus Static Widgets”]The static widget contains the following:
async onload=”tripWidget()”
The dynamic widget does not load asynchronously. If you turn on the dynamic flag in the portal in the widget editor, it removes that line from the code snippet that is generated. If you try to install a dynamic widget directly into an HTML container on WordPress, it will NOT render.[/boc_accordion][/boc_accordion_section][/boc_tab][boc_tab title=”Marketing Smart Trip Planning” icon=”icon icon-lightbulb-o”][boc_accordion_section rounded=”yes” with_bgr=”yes”][boc_accordion title=”The Benefits ” is_open=”yes”]Benefits for the Event Planner
- Less time managing room blocks and housing requests.
- 10% royalty on the revenues that Solutionz earns on all bookings and for non-profit event planners, we replace the royalty with a 25% donation to the 501c3.
- For multi-day events and those that are geared at a higher end traveler, the royalty can add up as a new revenue stream.
- For the “for profit” event clients, a 10% donation is made to the client’s charity of choice. The donation is based on the revenues that Solutionz earns on all bookings. Every event can benefit a different charity.
- Built in event invitation tool. The tool can be linked back to the ticketing and registration page, so that if it is shared via social media or email, the person receiving it will land back on the right page to register or buy a ticket for the event.
- Unique versions of the Smart Trip tool can be created for every speaker and every exhibitor to further promote the event with an actionable tool (including tracking).
Benefits for Event Attendees
- They get to choose from a wide variety of available hotels near the event venue, including apartments and home rentals.
- The system automatically populates the event dates in the travel requests.
- They can get driving directions and optional car rental and air tickets.
- Solutionz provides a best rate guarantee that our hotel rates are the lowest published rates available. If they book through the tool and find a lower published rate, we’ll refund 110% of the difference.
- Traveler service 24x7x365 in 40 languages.
- Pricing in local currency for travelers outside the US (payment in USD)
[/boc_accordion][boc_accordion title=”Press Release Draft”]We will work with your marketing team to craft a press release for your implementation of TripProximity. You will be named as the first ticketing and registration platform to implement Smart Trip, Smart Map, Smart Giving and Smart Event tools for your clients.[/boc_accordion][boc_accordion title=”Email Announcement to your Customer Base”]Once you are ready to implement TripProximity for your clients, we will assist with all of the aspects of your customer communications. We know that adoption is a direct result of a well planned rollout.[/boc_accordion][boc_accordion title=”Recommended Help Text”]We will assist you in drafting the help text for your clients, including the FAQs for your B2B clients.[/boc_accordion][/boc_accordion_section][/boc_tab][boc_tab title=”Terms and Conditions” icon=”icon icon-book”][boc_accordion_section rounded=”yes” with_bgr=”yes”][boc_accordion title=”Click the button below to review the Enterprise Terms and Conditions and then REGISTER as an Enterprise Client” is_open=”yes”][boc_button href=”http://www.tripproximity.com/legal-enterprise” btn_content=”Read Terms and Conditions” target=”_self” size=”btn_medium” color=”btn_theme_color” btn_style=”” border_radius=”btn_rounded” icon=”” icon_pos=”” icon_effect=””][/boc_accordion][/boc_accordion_section][/boc_tab][/boc_tabs][boc_tabs type=”vertical” minimal_style=”yes”][/boc_tabs][boc_spacing height=”40px”]
For any other details regarding widget customization, please access the Support Center.