Strategic Partners

While simpleview was built on innovation, we also recognize when to partner with another great company and not re-invent the wheel. Over the years, we've chosen to collaborate with a handful of strategic partners to create optimum value to our clients.

Advanced Reservation Systems Inc. (ARES) Advanced Reservation Systems Inc. (ARES) is a leader in electronic travel reservation technology. Their private-label booking engine features the ability for consumers to book hotel reservations, dynamic packages, airline tickets and car rentals and offers print@home ticketing for attractions, activities and tours. Their proprietary reservations and ticketing software is designed specifically for the DMO market, enabling DMOs to customize exactly which products to offer, how to display and feature them and even how to rank them.

Certified Tourism AmbassadorTM Program (CTA) by Mickey Schaefer & Associates Tucson-based Mickey Schaefer & Associates provide a variety of innovative consulting services that focus on guiding the strategic direction of the meetings industry, tourism and associations. MSA consults with over 90 DMOs on strategic planning and visioning; organizational structure; customer advisory boards; destination marketing; and community-wide stakeholder alignment to live the brand and drive tourism by Enhancing the Visitor ExperienceTM on the frontline through the Certified Tourism AmbassadorTM Program (e.g. John Doe, CTA).  Over 7,500 CTAs strong and growing.

Commotion Studios Commotion Studios is an event and multimedia production company with a unique mix of experience and technical skill to help bring DMO content and destination information to life through video, audio and photography. The company's philosophy begins with customer service and the way they treat others - the belief that a positive attitude can only increase creativity and productivity across the board.

Destination Analysts Destination Analysts Inc. is a San Francisco-based marketing research firm specializing in the travel and tourism industry. Founded by convention and visitor bureau veterans in 2003, the company aims to provide destination marketing organizations with affordable marketing intelligence so that they may maintain effective tourism marketing and advertising strategies. Destination Analysts offers an unrivaled expertise in destination marketing research, with its key staff members having pioneered numerous economic impact and tourism marketing program conversion methodologies.

Distribion Distribion is a leading provider of web-based software that allows marketers to manage the complex needs of distributed marketing organizations through a single integrated platform. Corporate and local marketers, field sales and marketing partners can efficiently create, store, localize, manage and measure marketing communications across channels. Leading companies across multiple industries use Distribion's web-based tools, including AT&T, Dairy Queen, ING Group, Motorola and Time Warner Cable.

empowerMINT.com As the world's largest and most reliable resource for official destination marketing organizations (DMOs), Destination Marketing Association International is dedicated to improving the effectiveness of over 2,800 professionals from nearly 600 destination marketing organizations in 28 countries. empowerMINT.com is the DMO industry's first collective portal of meeting destinations, which simplifies the search for where planners want to meet, and the industry's exclusive database of post-event reports. Subscribing DMOs have the power of the industry's first-ever lead generation and sales network at their fingertips.

ExactTarget ExactTarget is a leading global provider of on-demand email and one-to-one marketing solutions. The company's software-as-a-service technology provides organizations a single platform to connect with customers via triggered and transactional email, integrated text messaging, voice messaging, landing pages and social media.

Google Maps Google's innovative search technologies connect millions of people around the world with information every day. Integrated with DMO content, Google Maps give visitors all of the tools already familiar through the company's online maps site.

JackRabbit (BookDirect) JackRabbit Systems develops online travel software for destination and travel portal websites. The software is designed to improve website functionality and usability in order to enhance the visitor's experience and increase room nights in the selected destination. Their BookDirectTM engine accomplishes these goals. The company's network of participating hotels currently includes 18 states (full coverage) more than 60 counties and cities.

Kayak Kayak is the world's largest travel search site. Since it started in 2004, Kayak has been working hard to make travel planning better, and they're still toiling away to create new tools and to make their search faster, more relevant and easier to use.

MeetingBroker by Newmarket International Newmarket International Inc. is the leader in delivering sales, group, catering and event software solutions to the global hospitality and entertainment industries. Newmarket International's suite of business solutions can be found in hotels, casinos, restaurants, stadiums, meeting arenas and convention centers throughout the world.

MeetingMax Online Housing System The Meetingmax online housing system is the convention bureau's name brand in reservation systems. As the exclusive housing partner to simpleview, your bureau can access the latest technology to make online housing as easy as possible for your hotels, planners and event attendees. Employing online housing means your destination is serious about group business and economic impact tracking is paramount. Additionally, online housing has specific revenue generator opportunities built right into it allowing your destination to create new revenue streams.

mobiManage mobiManage offers a turn-key service for developing, hosting and optimizing mobile content, making it easy to create a mobile website that is immediately ready for access. Our basic product is a web-based software utility for creating mobile websites that web developers are using today to create mobile versions of some of the 80 million websites in the US.

NAVTEQ NAVTEQ is a leading provider of comprehensive digital map information for automotive navigation systems, location-based services and government and business solutions, with one of the most robust and accurate geographic databases in the world. Virtually every major automobile manufacturer in North America and Europe uses NAVTEQ® maps in one or more of their models, and the company is a leading supplier of map data to the top internet portals. On average, more than 100 million consumers access NAVTEQ data every day.

RUF Strategic Solutions Ruf Strategic Solutions delivers a full suite of marketing and business intelligence solutions designed to help organizations acquire new customers and build profitable relationships with existing customers. Ruf Strategic Solutions has been helping organizations maximize the return on their marketing investment through superior customer intelligence. The company launched the first commercially available relational database, first household-level consumer clustering system and the first business clustering system using proprietary "corporate lifestyles." Ruf's unique ability to integrate vast arrays of data, technology tools and more than 32 years of expertise empowers organizations with truly actionable and measurable intelligence.

Travelocity Travelocity pioneered the online travel space and continues to be the most popular travel service on the Web, giving consumers access to hundreds of airlines, thousands of hotels and cruises, last-minute vacation packages and best-in-class car rental companies, all backed by 1,000 customer service representatives staffed to provide 24-hour assistance. Travelocity has been recognized worldwide for its leadership in the online travel space and operates websites in several languages across four continents.

TripAdvisor TripAdvisor-branded sites make up the most popular and largest travel community in the world, with more than 32 million unique monthly visitors, 15+ million members and more than 30 million reviews and opinions. Featuring real advice from real travelers, TripAdvisor sites cover more than one million destinations, hotels, restaurants and attractions around the world.