Katelyn O'Shaughnessy is the CEO and founder of TravelStore, a luxury travel planning agency in California. She has over 8 years of experience in the travel industry and has received several awards for her work. TripScope was booked by Katelyn O'Shaughnessy of TravelStore. The app was built by lead programmer Vince Venkatesh and it allows travel agents to create and share customized mobile itineraries with clients via the TripScope app. Travel agents pay $10 per app to access client itineraries and are able to turn over 5-10 itineraries per week on average. Marketing efforts include leveraging TravelStore's 600 agents, Millennials in Travel's membership
10. Team
Katelyn O’Shaughnessy- CEO & Founder
• TravelStore: Luxury Travel Planner for California’s largest travel agency.
• Millennials In Travel: Board of Directors for the largest young travel
professionals organization in North America. Director of LA Chapter.
• Signature Travel Network: Member of the consortia group, which has a
network of 6,000 front-line travel consultants attributing to 5 billion in
revenue sales. Boardmember on Signature’s Young Travel Advisors.
• 30 Under 30: Awarded one of the Top 30 Travel Agents in North America
Under the age of 30 by Travel Agent Magazine & Travel Agent Central
Magazine.
• Class of 35: Awarded PhoCusWright’s Conference; Young Leaders Summit.
Tessa Gold- COO
• Over 8 years experience in entrepreneurship, business, and law.
Vince Venkatesh- Lead Programmer
• ios native app built in objective C. Website backend built in php & my sequel
11. Revenue Model
• Travel agent’s pay $10 per app on TripScope’s
user website. Using the client’s credit card the
agent makes the purchase and adds it on to the
overall vacation package price.
• Once payment is made the agent will receive a
confirmation number, which the client will input
on their iphone via the TripScope app to access
their customized itinerary.
• Average travel agent turns over 5 to 10 itineraries
a week.
12. Marketing/Customer Acquisition
• TravelStore: 600 Travel Agents in my Travel Agency.
• Millennials In Travel: Over 1,000 members nationally.
Over 400 in my LA Chapter alone.
• Speaking Engagements at Travel Conferences: Young
Leaders Conference, Luxury Travel Exchange, Signature
Travel Conference, PhoCusWright Conference, and
International Luxury Travel Exchange.
• Articles in Travel Magazines:
TravelAge West, Travel Weekly, Travel Agent Magazine,
and Travel Age Central.
• Signature: In discussions with potential collaboration
with the consortia group and their network of 6,000+
travel consultants.
