SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 5, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- TripIt from
Concur (Nasdaq: CNQR), the world's highest-rated travel-organizing
app, today announced its second annual holiday partnership with
Make-A-Wish Greater Bay Area*. Through the partnership, TripIt will
Adopt-A-Wish® to help create the perfect trip for
Mackenna (Kenna), a teenager with a
wish to travel to Australia to
meet her bone marrow donor. In addition, TripIt is asking travelers
to join the cause by participating in TripIt's mileage drive that
supports Wishes in Flight®, the program from Make-A-Wish that takes
airline miles and turns them into life-changing wishes.
"More than 75 percent of all wishes that Make-A-Wish Greater Bay
Area grants involve travel," said Patricia
Wilson, executive director, Make-A-Wish Greater Bay
Area. "TripIt is the ideal partner as their vision of
enabling the perfect trip complements our own beliefs in making
life better for kids with life-threatening medical
conditions. We are excited to partner with them again this
year to grant wishes that change the lives of the kids we
serve."
How TripIt is Helping Mackenna's Wish Take Flight
Mackenna (Kenna) has had a
remarkable journey. At 13, she was diagnosed with ulcerative
colitis. The only way to treat Kenna's condition was to put her on
an aggressive treatment, which included taking chemotherapy pills
that fought her colitis but could also cause cancer. Three years
later, while still dealing with treatment for colitis, Kenna's
family received the dreadful news. Kenna had leukemia. At this
point, the chemo could only control the illness, but the fact was
that Kenna's life depended on finding a bone marrow donor. They
did, halfway across the world in Australia.
This November, TripIt will help make Kenna's wish come true.
With TripIt's help, Kenna will travel to Australia where she'll meet her donor and be
able to thank him for allowing her to graduate from high school, go
to her prom, and for saving her life.
"I want to tell him in person how thankful I am," said
Kenna. "He saved my life. He is my hero. To give
someone else a second chance is the most selfless thing in the
world."
How Travelers Can Join the Cause
TripIt is hosting its second annual mileage drive to give
travelers an easy way to give back this holiday season. According
to a TripIt survey, two-thirds of travelers have had their miles or
rewards points expire. Instead of letting airline miles
collect dust or expire, travelers can now donate select frequent
flier miles to Make-A-Wish's Wishes in Flight® program. Once
donated, miles will never expire and are used by Make-A-Wish to
support wishes across the country. To participate,
visit: tripit.com/gift.
"The response from our mileage drive last year was
fantastic. The TripIt community raised more than 1 million
miles and we are hoping to top that this year," said Barry Padgett, executive vice president of
TripIt and Concur Traveler Services. "As we head into the
season of giving, we can all do our part in donating a fraction of
our mileage to make more dream trips take flight."
Travelers can also pay it forward by giving the gift of
stress-free travel to someone in their life. TripIt Pro
($49/year) is the all-in-one travel
organizing app that automagically creates a master itinerary for
every trip so you can access all travel plans in one place—any
time, on any device. Plus, it sends real-time alerts for delays,
cancellations and gate changes, tracks rewards points and miles
programs, alerts travelers when a better seat has become
available—and much more. TripIt Pro's Point Tracker feature also
alerts users when their points are close to expiring so they can
easily use or donate rewards points before they expire.
For more information about TripIt's partnership with
Make-A-Wish, and to request an interview or high-resolution images,
please contact press@tripit.com.
About TripIt from Concur®
TripIt from Concur, the world's highest-rated travel-organizing
app, automagically creates a master itinerary for every trip,
giving you instant access to all your travel plans in one place—any
time, on any device. To get started, simply forward flight,
hotel, rental car, and restaurant confirmation emails to
plans@tripit.com. TripIt Pro has all the organizing power of
TripIt, plus extra features for stress-free travel, like real-time
flight alerts, seat tracking, refund notifications, and more.
Companies can also extend the power of TripIt to the entire
office with TripIt for Teams. For more information on how
TripIt organizes and delights more than 10 million travelers
worldwide, please visit us at tripit.com, follow us @TripIt, like
us on Facebook, and watch us on YouTube.
About Concur
Concur is the leading provider of spend management solutions and
services in the world, helping companies of all sizes transform the
way they manage spend so they can focus on what matters most.
Through Concur's open platform, the entire travel and expense
ecosystem of customers, suppliers, and developers can access and
extend Concur's T&E cloud. Concur's systems adapt to individual
employee preferences and scale to meet the needs of companies from
small to large. Learn more at www.concur.com or
the Concur blog. The Concur Perfect Trip
Fund invests in leading edge travel technology companies and
is awarding $100,000 in innovation
funding at the awards at The Perfect Trip DevCon 2014, from
Concur & TripIt. Learn more at www.concur.com or the
Concur blog.
*TripIt, based in San
Francisco, is adopting Kenna's wish via Make-A-Wish Greater
Bay Area. Miles donated will go to your local Make-A-Wish chapter
and are administered by Make-A-Wish America.
Contact:
Lauren
Moreno
Public Relations Manager
press@tripit.com
SOURCE TripIt
