Stowe, Vermont, Nov. 01, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Inntopia, the travel industry’s leading eCommerce and central reservation provider, is pleased to announce the acquisition of Ryan Solutions, a leading customer relationship management (CRM) and database marketing provider for the travel industry.
The acquisition brings together two companies with complementary products, shared customers, and most importantly, a similar vision and desire to develop the best technology solutions in the travel industry.
Combining both systems into one fully-integrated platform will provide partners with an integrated commerce, marketing, and business intelligence platform.
“Ryan Solutions’ CRM and lifecycle messaging capabilities truly are a perfect match for our Commerce platform,” says Trevor Crist, CEO and founder of Inntopia. “With both Commerce and CRM now under one roof, existing and future partners will have access to a platform perfectly integrated to help resorts, hotels, and attractions fill more beds, sell more tickets and golf rounds, and do so with the best technology and service available. We’re also very excited by the talent acquisition that is an important part of this deal.”
Corey Ryan, founder of Ryan Solutions, will join the Inntopia executive team as Chief Commercial Officer. Co-founder Ben Zeeb will assume the role of Senior VP, Product Development. Gregg Blanchard, also with Ryan Solutions, will become Director of Marketing for the combined organization.
“Ryan Solutions’ guest profiling, lifecycle messaging, and business intelligence capabilities are a natural fit for the Inntopia platform,” says Corey Ryan. “Merging all facets of our businesses - our software development teams, partner services, strategic account management, sales, and marketing teams will provide us with the means to combine our complementary resources and provide the most innovative products services in the industry.”
The two companies already share roughly half their client base, which includes some of the best-known names in the ski industry, and more recently in golf, and parks and attractions. The acquisition brings Inntopia’s total employee count to over sixty-five. Inntopia will continue to operate out of its headquarters in Stowe, Vermont, with an additional office in Burlington, Vermont, and now Edwards, Colorado, where Ryan Solutions is headquartered.
About Ryan Solutions: Ryan Solutions is a leading customer relationship management (CRM) and database marketing provider for the hospitality industry. By combining transactional, demographic, survey, and social media data with personal, proactive client support, Ryan Solutions technology drives incremental revenue and growth for hundreds of hotels and resorts
About Inntopia: Inntopia provides innovative technology solutions to ski and golf resorts, destination marketing organizations, hotels, activity suppliers, tour operators, and attraction and water parks. Presently, over 75 resorts and destinations of all sizes use the constantly evolving eCommerce platform, taking advantage of the automatic connectivity between all systems, and the easy integration with over 50 yield management, global distribution, property management, and point-of-sale systems. Present partners include some of the largest destination resorts including Aspen, Intrawest, Whistler.com, Massanutten Resort, Thredbo (Australia), and Engadin, St. Moritz (Switzerland).
Inntopia is an operating subsidiary of Northstar Travel Group, the majority shareholder of Inntopia.
About Northstar Travel Group: Northstar Travel Group is the leading provider of business-to-business news, information, data, transactions and custom content solutions for the travel, meetings and hospitality industries. Brands under the Northstar umbrella include Travel Weekly, Travel Weekly China, Travel Weekly Asia, TravelAge West, Business Travel News, Phocuswright, Meetings & Conventions, M&C China, Web in Travel and Inntopia. Northstar is the industry leader in marketing solutions, custom content communications, content licensing and database management serving the travel and meetings industries. The company produces more than 52 face-to-face events, taking place in North and South America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Northstar is based in Secaucus, NJ, and is a portfolio company of Wasserstein & Co.
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