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Open Destinations makes complicated holidays add up
Behind a tailor-made tour sits a thicket of rates, rooms, rail seats and revisions. Open Destinations sells the software - and the human help - that keeps them together.
Travefy
Travefy is a Lincoln, Nebraska-based SaaS company that builds itinerary management, proposal, CRM, and marketing software for travel professionals. Founded in 2012, it pivoted from consumer group-trip planning to a B2B platform now trusted by 50,000+ travel brands worldwide, helping travel advisors, agencies, tour operators, and DMCs design branded itineraries, send proposals, manage clients, and market their businesses from a single connected platform.
David Chait
David Chait is the co-founder and CEO of Travefy, the itinerary, proposal and client-management platform that thousands of travel advisors use to make their trips look as good as they feel. He started it in 2012 to untangle a friend's bachelor party booked across 75 emails, pivoted the whole company to serve travel professionals in 2016, and built it into one of the quiet workhorses of the travel-advisor economy from an office in Lincoln, Nebraska. A former McKinsey consultant and Obama-era SBA policy advisor with two Columbia degrees, he is now an industry advocate, vice chair of The Travel Institute board, and ASTA's 2017 Entrepreneur of the Year.