Road Tripper

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The Road-Tripper Trailers are the perfect answer for your simple camping holiday. The most efficient and compact, yet very spacious trailer, which gets its name from its teardrop profile. This modern trailer is the ultimate solution for your camping adventures. Choose from custom designed additions to accommodate you personal lifestyle. A road tripping community for families, individuals, couples, friends pet owners to discover new places, meet new people and indulge in unique experiences through road trips.

The Road-Tripper Type “Limited Edition” is the Length-extended luxury derivative of our “XL” range, especially designed for the needs of the lifestyle-oriented customer with our ability to customise or supply all the accessories to fit the lifestyle choice. These would include trailers specifically kitted for the Fishing enthusiast or mountain biker / hiking market, not wanting the tent experience anymore. A rugged 4x4 shape with large diameter mag wheels compliments the aesthetics of this outdoor trailer. A full sized spare wheel is fitted on request. Wheels and chassis heights are usually matched with that of the towing vehicle, for ease of use and matching looks. A trailer, capable to offer the out of city / dirt road requirements this lifestyle demands.

Recommended with all our trailers are the side tables and wash-rack system to compliment your more adventurous glamping experience.

Roadtrippers
TypePrivate company
IndustryConsumer Web
FoundedCincinnati, Ohio, United States (July 2011)
Headquarters,
United States
United States
Canada
United Kingdom
Israel
Key people
Tatiana Parent
James Fisher, CEO
John Lauck
Joshua Smibert
ProductsiPhone app
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Websiteroadtrippers.com

Roadtrippers is a web based software application, mobile app, and content provider that helps travelers plan road trips.[1][2][3][4] The software lets users discover independently owned points of interest in the United States and Canada.[5][6] Once a trip is saved, it can be synced to the Roadtrippers iPhone app, for turn-by-turn navigation, and further local discovery while on the road.[5]

Since 2011, the team at Roadtrippers have worked on securing investments and growing the business.[6][7] The company was founded by James Fisher and Tatiana Parent. The headquarters are in Cincinnati, Ohio.[1][8]

Https://roadtrippers.com/

History[edit]

Road Trippers Website

Origins (2011-2012)[edit]

Roadtrippers co-founder James Fisher grew up traveling. His family ran a safari company in Africa.[1] His fellow co-founder, Tatiana Parent, shares his passion for travel, having traveled the USA extensively herself. Drivers brightwell port devices.

Fisher and Parent brainstormed the idea of Roadtrippers in 2010. They were frustrated with the lack of useful travel resources. Particularly for finding independent places to visit, and syncing travel advice with navigation.[1][9] This frustration led them to create Roadtrippers.[1][9][10][11]

Analog devices driver download. Fisher and Parent moved from Great Britain in 2011 to focus on their company.[8] In July 2011, The Brandery, a Cincinnati-based startup accelerator, accepted Roadtrippers into its program.[12] The Brandery's aim is to helps new businesses with securing funding, gaining mentors, and networking with business professionals.[7][13]

In June 2012, the company launched a public beta version of its application. The application allowed use of the unpolished software in order to gain feedback for the website's full release.[7]

Expansion[edit]

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Roadtrippers official website launched in July 2012.[7] Roadtrippers has since grown to a team of 25 full-time employees including John Lauck, appointed VP of Engineering in 2012.[7][14] The company has a team of developers and designers as well as a network of travel content creators.[8] The Roadtrippers team expanded the company outside of the United States to Canada, the United Kingdom, and Israel.

On November 2012, after working with app developer Forest Giant, Roadtrippers released a companion iPhone app.[3] The app was launched on Gizmodo app of the day on Nov 19th, 2012.[4] In December 2012, Roadtrippers reached 1 million monthly users.[15] In November 2014, Roadtrippers released version 3.0 of its iOS app. The new version does not require the user to create an account to use the app.[16] It does include weather forecasting and icons for users to select what they are interested in (e.g., diners, hiking, discover locations nearby.[17][18]

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Roadtrippers was recognized on TIME's 50 Best Websites of 2014.[19]

In 2018, Roadtrippers was acquired by Thor Industries/Tourist Holdings Inc. In February 2019, Roadtrippers Plus was added as a paid feature service. Initial discounted offering was $10 for a year subscription to existing Roadtrippers App users for limited time. Free version was downgraded from 60 waypoints per trip down to 6, severely limiting the usefulness of the free version. Shortly after the initial offering, the price for a year subscription jumped to the current rate of $30/year. <https://www.bizjournals.com/bizwomen/news/latest-news/2018/02/two-for-the-road-airstream-parent-buys.html?page=all>

Funding[edit]

Through 2012, the company secured $500,000 in venture funding from CincyTech, Vine St. Ventures, Ludlow Ventures and a number of angel investors.[10] In August 2013, the company received a $2.5 million investment from Drive Capital for expansion.[20][21]

Features[edit]

The Roadtrippers application lets travelers plan trips, calculate time and gas expense, and choose from over 5 million independent locations in the United States to visit.[22][23][24] The application used to heavily rely on Google Maps API, but has since moved to MapBox. Users can plan their routes and select interests from categories and sub-categories within 10–30 miles of the main route.[25] The areas of interest are then displayed on the map, and the mileage and gas costs are recalculated.[9][23] The application road trip planner calculates approximate trip mileage, travel time, and fuel cost.[2][5][10][22][23][26][27] Trip itineraries built on the Roadtrippers web platform sync with the iPhone app and Android app.[28]

The Roadtrippers proprietary search accesses a database of over 5 million points of interest. Users can also discover locations by selecting categories of interest. Categories include accommodations, food and drink, history, nature, culture, shopping, sports and more.[5] Users can also rate, review, and read what other users have to say about points of interest.[9] Users with a free Roadtrippers account have the option to 'save' locations that they are interested to a public profile.[23][24]

Roadtrippers 'guides' are curated lists of locations (e.g., 'Diners to Die For,' 'Wine Country,' 'Geektown' and 'Mad Science').[5][29]

The Roadtrippers team began building features to enable hotel booking via the application in September 2012[10][28] In September 2015, Roadtrippers incorporated hotel meta search to display prices from multiple hotel booking providers on specific accommodations.

In May 2015 Roadtrippers launched a watch app. The application is backed by Roadtrippers database of over 5 million points of interest. It ranks locations by user rating and displays the highest rated points of interest 'nearby'.[30][31]

Adoption[edit]

According to Alexa, Roadtrippers is ranked at 28,884 in the USA. As of January 2013, the service has 160,000 users, making it one of the fastest growing US travel sites launched in 2012.[32]

Challenges[edit]

While Roadtrippers offers over 50,000 attractions in the United States, reviews written in 2012 said it still had a ways to go, and needed more attractions in order to garner new and repeat users.[24][33]

References[edit]

  1. ^ abcdeAnna Hider (July 20, 2012). 'Roadtrippers.com'. Her Cincinnati. Retrieved January 17, 2013.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  2. ^ ab'Roadtrippers'. Thrillist. Retrieved January 17, 2013.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  3. ^ abRob Lovitt. 'Customize your car trips with Roadtrippers app'. NBCNews. Retrieved January 17, 2013.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  4. ^ abLeslie Horn (November 19, 2012). 'Roadtrippers: Plan Your Next Cross-Country Trek'. Gizmodo. Retrieved January 17, 2013.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  5. ^ abcdeLeo, Jen (2013-03-03). 'Web Buzz: Roadtrippers.com and app clear the way'. Los Angeles Times. ISSN0458-3035. Retrieved 2016-01-20.
  6. ^ abFrederic Lardinois (June 11, 2012). 'Roadtrippers Helps You Plan Your Summer Road Trip, Lands $250k Seed Round'. TechCrunch. Retrieved January 17, 2013.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  7. ^ abcde'Roadtrippers – Powerful Route Planning'. About Your Startup. June 29, 2012. Retrieved January 17, 2013.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  8. ^ abcLaura Baverman (June 12, 2012). 'Roadtrippers goes live; famed writer Jamie Jensen advises'. The Cincinnati Enquirer. Retrieved January 17, 2013.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  9. ^ abcdZoe Fox (August 5, 2012). 'Here's the Only App You'll Need for the Great American Road Trip'. Mashable. Retrieved January 17, 2013.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  10. ^ abcdIrina Papuc (July 13, 2012). 'Plan Better Trips With Roadtrippers'. Techli. Retrieved January 17, 2013.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  11. ^'Curated route planning across America'. New-Startups. July 19, 2012. Retrieved January 17, 2013.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  12. ^Lardinois, Frederic. 'Roadtrippers Helps You Plan Your Summer Road Trip, Lands $250k Seed Round'. TechCrunch. Retrieved 2016-01-20.
  13. ^'Brandery'. The Brandery. Retrieved January 17, 2013.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  14. ^'Roadtrippers: The Team'. Roadtrippers. Retrieved January 17, 2013.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  15. ^Howell Hirt, Amy (11 April 2014). 'IT Winner: Roadtrippers'. Cincinnati Business Courier. Retrieved 24 November 2014.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  16. ^Leslie Horn (November 24, 2014). 'You'll Want to Download Roadtrippers' Excellent New Trip-Planning App'. Gizmodo. Retrieved November 25, 2014.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  17. ^'It's Travel Season: These 3 Apps Make You a Power Traveler'. tech.co. Retrieved 2016-01-20.
  18. ^'You'll Want to Download Roadtrippers' Excellent New Trip-Planning App'. Gizmodo. Retrieved 2016-01-20.
  19. ^Aamoth, Doug; Newman, Jared (1 August 2014). '50 Best Websites of 2014'. TIME. Retrieved 24 November 2014.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  20. ^'Roadtrippers | CrunchBase'. www.crunchbase.com. Retrieved 2016-01-20.
  21. ^Brownfield, Andy (7 August 2013). 'Roadtrippers secures Kvamme investment, sets launch for new app'. Cincinnati Business Courier. Retrieved 24 November 2014.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  22. ^ abMelanie Pinola (June 12, 2012). 'Roadtrippers Thoroughly Organizes Your Summer Road Trip Plans'. Lifehacker. Retrieved January 17, 2013.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  23. ^ abcdJoshua Pramis (August 9, 2012). 'Tech Thursday: Road Trip Stopovers Made Easy'. Travel + Leisure. Retrieved January 17, 2013.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  24. ^ abcSaikat Basu (June 27, 2012). 'Plan an American Road Trip the Right Way with Roadtrippers'. Guiding Tech. Retrieved January 17, 2013.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  25. ^Richard Read (August 6, 2012). 'RoadTrippers Puts Eager Drivers On The Road Less Traveled'. The Car Connection. Retrieved January 17, 2013.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  26. ^'Roadtrippers: Plan Your Trip & Find Attractions Along The Route'. MakeUseOf. June 23, 2012. Retrieved January 17, 2013.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  27. ^'ROAD TO JOY: A new way to plan a car trip'. PureWow. August 9, 2012. Retrieved January 17, 2013.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  28. ^ ab'Plan your great American road trip'. www.bbc.com. Retrieved 2016-01-20.
  29. ^Secrets, Million Mile. 'Save Time Planning Your Next Road Trip With Roadtrippers'. Million Mile Secrets. Retrieved 2016-01-20.
  30. ^'OTR's Roadtrippers launches Apple Watch app'. Cincinnati.com. Retrieved 2016-01-20.
  31. ^'Download These 12 Apps Before Your Next Road Trip'. Brit + Co. Retrieved 2016-01-20.
  32. ^Tom Demeropolis (January 4, 2013). 'Roadtrippers has 160,000 users'. Business Courier. Retrieved January 17, 2013.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  33. ^Donnie Clapp (September 4, 2012). 'Travel Tech to Watch'. MercuryCSC. Retrieved January 17, 2013.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)

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External links[edit]

Roadtrippers App Download

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