The smart trip technology is powered by the patent pending TripProximity™ platform.

The SmartTrip and SmartEvents tools let your visitors easily check availability and book a room at hotels nearby your venue or event.

The SmartGiving tool allows trip planning to any location, anywhere, for any reason.

Any of the tools also gives the traveler driving directions and optional car rental or air tickets and a map of the destination.  The user can also customize the Concierge information, which by default includes trip support information, cool trip tools and alternative transportation information.

Great question.  Our founder has been in the travel technology industry since 1982 and literally wrote the book on global travel distribution.  When she formed Solutionz in 1996, it was to turn the industry on its head not only from the technology side of things, but also on the business model angle.  As a result:

Our tools are smarter than other travel tools.

• We find lodging nearby your true destination, not just a city or an airport.  That saves time when the traveler gets to their destination.  #proximitymatters
• We embed our tools easily into the sites and systems that travelers use regularly – where they realize that they need to travel #simplicitymatters
• Did you know that 89% of all travel in the US is by car?  We give you the ability to calculate driving time and directions and even figure out the gas cost if you choose to drive.  You can also rent a car and drive from your starting point, versus every trip including an air ticket  #choicematters
  
• We save your team time so they don’t have to answer the question “where should I stay” when visiting you or attending your event.  #timematters
  

  Our business model is crazy smart.

• Companies that give more, make more.  We give a minimum of 10% of our gross revenues to the charity or cause of choice of our clients.  #givingmatters
• We also provide a royalty revenue stream to our clients, which is 10% of our gross revenues.  For our enterprise clients, there is also a bonus if they turn our product on for all of their clients. In addition to this, if they refer us to others, we provide a referral revenue royalty for the first year’s revenues to our channel partner.  #revenuematters
• We guarantee the lowest price on lodging.  We are backed by the world’s largest inventory aggregator and we are confident that we will always have the lowest published price and we are willing to put our money where our mouth is.  #lowestpricematters

Yes you can!   There are multiple uses.

• We are an ideal VISIT US page for your company’s website for those that are coming to visit you.  Just select our SmartTrip tool and create one for each location that you have.
• If you have company events, we can power those events with the SmartEvent tool.
• If you do not have a travel agent, you can use our tool for your team’s travels.  You can use our Travel to Anywhere version of the tool and set it up either for each traveler or for each client/project.

Just set up time to talk to us by clicking on CONTACT US.

Yes you can!

We are the perfect tool for the VISIT US page of a venue website for those needing a hotel nearby.

• If you currently have a list of hotels nearby, just replace it with our Venue Centric Smart Trip Tool.
• If you currently have a map showing where you are located, with our Level 3 product, you can replace it with our SmartMap, which also has all of the features of the Smart Trip tool, but with a MAP facing front instead of the I’m Staying tab.

If you also host events, with our Level 2 product, you can use our SmartEvents tool and earn a royalty and a donation on every trip booked using that tool.

Yes absolutely!  The Smart Giving tool is designed for any organization (for profit or not-for-profit) that wishes to donate 25% of the gross revenues earned from the use of the tool to their charity or cause of choice.

By selecting Smart Giving when you set up your tool, you automatically opt in to the 25% donation model.

The SmartMap tool has all of the capabilities of the SmartTrip tool, but with the MAP facing front.  It is commonly used to replace a basic map on a website.

Level 1

As a Level 1 client, you will have two types of SmartTrip tools to choose from:

• Venue tool for travel to a specific place (such as your company or organization’s offices)
• Travel to Anywhere (literally anywhere in the world for any reason at any time)

Level 2

Once you reach 10 bookings, you will automatically be upgraded to Level 2, which opens up the SmartEvents tool, which is for travel to a specific event at a specific location on a specific date.  You also get to select your own charity with the SmartGiving tool.

Level 3

At level 3, you will have the ability to add our SmartMap tool, which has all of the features of our SmartTrip and SmartEvent tools, but has the map page front facing.  This can replace the use of any map on your site.  It should take the same footprint.

You also get to take advantage of our Smart Navigation and Smart Portfolio tools, which are our tools that do not have the travel elements embedded.  Think of it as a Concierge for your network, to provide them with smart links to content anywhere on the internet.  The first one is designed for products or services for a company and the second one is for individuals to show your portfolio (social media, products, services).

Yes, we call it our Channel Partner program.  We have a dedicated person on our executive team that manages our Channel Partners and provides training to help you maximize your revenue stream.

The simple answer is that your revenues and any donations to your charity or cause of choice are directly proportionate to the bookings that come through your use of our smart trip tools.  The more people you reach, the more money/donations you will make.

There are two financial models to choose from when looking at the benefits of using TravelingToGive™.  As a for-profit entity, you can choose either model.

For Profit Partners – Royalty + Donation

Our “for-profit” partners (which include companies, individuals or groups) have a two pronged financial benefit from TravelingToGive.  With this model you can EARN and GIVE.  Just select our SmartTrip or SmartEvent tools.

First is a royalty.  For those that have booked at least 10 bookings with us, you will be automatically upgraded to Level 2, where we share 10% of our gross revenues with you as a royalty.  This is paid quarterly, with a $100 minimum.  Once you have booked 75 bookings in a 3 month period, we will auto-upgrade you to Level 3, where you will be paid monthly.

For all Level 2 and 3 clients, if you have an engagement rate of 4.6% or more (trackable 24/7 on your Dashboard in the Portal), we have an additional 10% bonus to acknowledge that volume.  Engagement can be directly impacted by how you place the tool on your site.  We will help you with best practices there to get the highest rate possible.

If you are an enterprise client and have embedded our tools into your system, if you turn on our capabilities for all of your customers and give them a way to turn it off (known as OPT OUT), we will give you an additional 10% bonus, on top of the base royalty.

Our for-profit partners also receive a donation in their name from Solutionz to their charity or cause of choice.  That is 10% of the total gross revenues from bookings, paid annually.

Non- Profit – Donation Only

Our non-profit partners do not get the royalty, but we more than double our contribution.  We donate a minimum of 25% to their 501c3.  This is 5x what Amazon Smile donates.

For charities that serve veterans or help to eradicate human slavery, we double that donation.

We have a number of ways that we can help socialize the benefits of TravelingToGive within your organization to help you with getting your internal team all on the same page.

The best way is to share our onboarding process and some of our campaigns that have been successful with other clients.  We have found that a simple call to action is best, with a graphical element that best portrays your organization’s brand and personality, because it isn’t about our brand, it is about you.

Here are a few images that are a part of our implementation library.

Bottom line, is that we are not just a tech provider, we are a marketing partner and we will work with your internal (or external) marketing team to come up with the most successful rollout for you!

PRIVACY

We have a robust Privacy policy (click the image to access).

Our Smart Tools are unique in that we do not capture ANY personal information in the tool itself.  Once the user is ready to book, their information is treated with the utmost care and is subject to the most stringent privacy in the world, based on that of the EU.

TERMS & CONDITIONS

Our general terms and conditions are applicable to anyone that builds and uses one of our Smart Tools.  We do not require our clients to sign an agreement, but when the portal is used, the user agrees to these terms.

We have a best price guarantee on all lodging booked on the system.  If after booking the traveler finds a cheaper rate for the same room on the same date at the same property on a publicly available site (not a corporate rate or other private rate requiring login), we will pay the user 110% of the difference.

No that is not necessary.  We offer 24 x 7 x 365 support in 40 languages and you can also change or cancel most bookings online.  The Concierge page has this information on every new tool created.

Our basic venue, event and anywhere tools can be added to your site or blog in literally minutes.

Once you register, create and customize the look and feel of the tool using our Smart Tool Portal, you can grab the embed code and plug it in right away.

Once the tool is live, if there are any changes made, you do not have to reinstall it.  The changes are live immediately.

The Smart Tools perform best above the fold, where no scrolling is required.

If you feel like you need to tell people how to use the tool, we recommend that be done below or beside the tool, or even on another page used to get your network interested in the use of the tool.  When they are ready to use the tool, there should not be anything that stands in their way.

If you do not have your own website or blog, but you want to use our tools, you can utilize our STORED Smart Trip Tool option.

We provide the hosting for your tools, each page with a unique name.  You may store any of our tool types, so you can have event tools (like a family reunion that is a one time event) or one for a function like househunting to your new city, or you can have a tool list for venue tools to each of your client locations, so that you don’t have to look up the address each time you go to visit them.

If you have multiple hosted tools, we provide a list of those tools to make it easy for you and your team to get to the tools.  You may bookmark that list.

Integration of our tool into systems is a simple matter.  You simply customize the look and feel and the default options for the tool and then grab the dynamic embed code, which provides the format for the script to link your fields to ours.  Then install the script.  It should not take more than an hour.

Click the image above for more information.

No, you can only install one tool per webpage, or the instructions in the javascript would conflict with one another.

If level 2 clients need assistance in activating the tool, Solutionz will do it for you for $99, one time fee.  In order for us to help with activation, we will need the login credentials to your website or blog.

If a level 3 client needs help with integrating the tool, Solutionz will assist for a $499, one time fee.   In order for our tech team to assist with the activation, we will need for you to appoint a technical liason.

Our system has over 700,000 hotels in over 71,000 destinations worldwide with 38.5 million verified guest reviews.  This includes many independent hotels, condo and home rentals and bed & breakfast facilities.  Want a hotel that is pet friendly?  No problem.  Want to filter by your favorite hotel brand or by price range.  It is simple.

Please pay special attention to cancellation policies on all types of lodging, as each property controls their own policies and non-standard lodging options can include things like cleaning fees that can increase the overall price.  This is consistent with other sites that have these types of properties.

Provide their information to us, including the General Manager’s name and number.  We will contact them and help them understand how to expand their distribution and be represented in our system, which also gets them distribution globally.

Yes, Traveling To Give is a partner of the Priceline Partner Network, which includes Priceline, Booking.com and Agoda.  Priceline (Nasdaq: PCLN)  is the largest aggregator of hotel inventory in the world, with over $15b in hotel sales annually (based on 2018 10K).

We are so confident that our rates are competitive, that Traveling To Give backs up our promise with a 110% best rate guarantee.  If the traveler finds a lower rate on another website for the same room, at the same hotel, on the exact same date range, within 24 hours of making your booking with us, we guarantee you that we’ll match it PLUS pay you 110% of the difference in price.

You will need to document the lower rate with a screen shot and will need to send your request, along with your trip number, name and contact information to bestrate@solutionz.com.  We will research your request and respond within 1 business day.

We also have extremely favorable group hotel rates through Groupize and we can do online requests for proposals (RFP) for group sleeping rooms and meeting rooms for up to 10 properties simultaneously.

Same-day reservations are available in most areas, for most of our hotels. You can book a reservation for the same night up until 5am Eastern Time the next day! So you night owls can rest easy knowing that next time you need a hotel room, we’re here for you!

For all hotel reservations, you can book up to 11 months in advance, for a maximum of 21 days.

Please keep a few things in mind when requesting a same-day check-in:

1. Availability may be limited
2. Some hotels do not allow same-day bookings
3. When booking a reservation for immediate check-in after midnight, enter yesterday’s date into the check-in date field
4. If you book a one-night reservation after midnight for immediate check-in, you will have to check out at the hotel’s normal checkout time later that same day.

For pre-paid hotel reservations, we will charge your credit card directly. In connection with facilitating your hotel transaction when we charge your card, the charge to your payment method will include a charge for Taxes and Service Fees. This charge includes an estimated or anticipated amount to recover the amount we pay to the hotel in connection with your reservation for taxes owed by the hotel including, without limitation, sales and use tax, occupancy tax, room tax, excise tax, value added tax and/or other similar taxes. In certain locations, the tax amount may also include government imposed service fees or other fees not paid directly to the taxing authorities but required by law to be collected by the hotel. The amount paid to the hotel in connection with your reservation for taxes may vary from the amount we estimate and include in the charge to you. The balance of the charge for Taxes and Service Fees is a fee we retain as part of the compensation for our services and to cover the costs of your reservation, including, for example, customer service costs. The charge for Taxes and Fees varies based on a number of factors including, without limitation, the amount we pay the hotel and the location of the hotel where you will be staying, and may include profit that we retain.

For transactions involving hotels located within certain jurisdictions, the charge to your debit or credit card for Taxes and Service Fees includes a payment of tax that we are required to collect and remit to the jurisdiction for tax owed on amounts we retain as compensation for our services.

Depending on the property, you may also be charged (i) certain mandatory hotel specific service fees, for example, resort fees (which typically apply to resort type destinations and, if applicable, may range from $10 to $40 per day), energy surcharges, newspaper delivery fees, in-room safe fees, tourism fees, or housekeeping fees and/or (ii) certain optional incidental fees, for example, parking charges, minibar charges, phone calls, room service and movie rentals, etc.. These charges, if applicable, will be payable by you to the hotel directly at checkout. When you check in, a credit card or, in the hotel’s discretion, a debit card will be required to secure these charges and fees that you may incur during your stay. Please contact the hotel directly as to whether and which charges or service fees apply.

You must be at least 21 years old to book a hotel reservation.

You may reserve up to 9 rooms at a time, provided they all have the same check-in and checkout dates. For a booking of 5-9 rooms a different name for each room is required.

If you want more than 10 rooms, you will be taken to our Group Booking platform and you may request a proposal from up to 10 hotels.

All rooms booked are guaranteed for the number of guests indicated in the room rate. Additional guests may incur additional fees payable directly to your confirmed hotel. You may contact your confirmed hotel directly to inquire about extra guests.

You will need to make another reservation in order to add rooms or nights to your stay. Please note, when you make the new reservation, you may not be given the same room for the additional nights.

We have over 38.5 million verified customer reviews of the properties on our site.  You can be assured that they are legitimate, as the only want to enter a property review is after you have checked out.  You will receive an email and the link to enter your review, based on your actual experience.

The star rating system is provided for your reference. Like other well-known hotel rating systems, we consider a number of factors in evaluating the quality of participating hotels such as: amenities, facilities, reputation, brand, other rating services, customer feedback from guests who have stayed at the hotel, etc., to assign a single star rating.

Our hotel star ratings are indicators of the general quality you can expect from your chosen hotel. The descriptions below provide general information, based on the information we use to determine a star rating. Circumstances such as ongoing renovations, overbooking, and specific guest needs can affect the quality of your stay. Be sure to let the hotel know of any special requests or requirements you have at check-in. The features described here are often not available at vacation rentals, condos, inns, bed-and-breakfasts, or other specialty lodging.

1-STAR HOTELS These hotels are national name brand and quality independent hotels that will meet the budget-traveler’s basic needs for comfort & convenience. Restaurants are either on-site or close-by.

2-STAR HOTELS All of our 2 star hotels are name brand and independent hotels which will provide your everyday amenities and services, along with clean and comfortable accommodations. They generally are near major attractions, intersections and casual-dining restaurants. Some may even offer limited hotel-restaurant service.

2.5-STAR HOTELS Our 2 1/2 star hotels are national name brand and quality independent hotels featuring tasteful accommodations, and casual public spaces. While hotel services may be a bit limited, they may feature a restaurant for breakfast or offer a continental buffet, and may offer special amenities for the business traveler by providing a homier feel.

3-STAR HOTELS Our 3-star hotels include some of the most recognizable brand names and quality independent hotels in the industry. Enjoy comfortable rooms and well-decorated public spaces. On-site dining is sometimes offered but may not be available for all three meals, and a fitness room may also be available.

3.5-STAR HOTELS These hotels are some of the most recognizable brand names and quality independent hotels in the industry. Enjoy excellent rooms, well-decorated public spaces with a higher level of customer service.

4-STAR HOTELS The personalized customer service, elegant décor, and amazingly high standards of comfort at these hotels are simply unbeatable.

4.5-STAR HOTELS These hotels are focused on providing impeccable service and the finest amenities. Distinctive touches provided in fashionable surroundings will make your stay unforgettable.

5-STAR HOTELS Our 5-star hotels offer the absolute highest levels of quality, services and amenities. Guest rooms are finely furnished with lovely linens and upscale amenities you may never want to leave. Add to that the personalized guest service, elegant decor and amazingly high standards of comfort, and these hotels are simply unbeatable.

You may be able to cancel the reservation based on the cancellation policy presented to you at the time of purchase. You can find cancellation policy information in the important information section of your confirmation page.

In your confirmation email you will find a confirmation number.  On this site you may retrieve your reservation by entering your email address and the confirmation number.

Please review your reservation information carefully before making your reservation.