TRVL

TRVL

TRVL

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This article is about the online travel platform. For the American television network branded visually as "Trvl", see Travel Channel.

TRVL was founded as an iPad magazine in 2010 before becoming a hotel booking platform for consumers, then one “for travel pros”. Its latest iteration is as a digital token for an online home sharing platform.

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History

Co-founded in the Netherlands by tech/design specialist Michel Elings and entrepreneur Jochem Wijnands, TRVL started as a digital publication exclusively for iPad in 2010. It was the first iPad-specific magazine in the world and reached more than one million downloads.[1] [2]

Frustrated with the available publishing software, the TRVL team developed Prss, a mobile-first publishing platform. The Prss team and IP was acquired by Apple in 2014 to help create the Apple News Format.[3]

In 2015 Wijnands left Apple and pivoted TRVL into a booking platform aimed at travel agents.[4]

References

  1. [1]
    "Five download-worthy travel mags".
  2. [2]
    "TRVL Magazine App Takes Publishing Industry on an Adventurous Ride". 16 July 2013.
  3. [3]
    "TechCrunch: Prss acquired by Apple"
  4. [4]
    Kamps, Haje Jan. "You're a travel agent! You're a travel agent! Everyone's a travel agent!". Techcrunchb. Retrieved 9 August 2016.
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