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.
History
Co-founded in the Netherlands by entrepreneur Jochem Wijnands and tech/design specialist Michel Elings, 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.
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
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In 2015 Wijnands left Apple and pivoted TRVL into a booking platform aimed at travel agents.
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Sharing economy
Travel technology