To add Smart Trip Planning to your Event Landing Page
The second best conversion comes from placing the widget above the fold. It can fit in a right rail column and you can precede it with a marketing message, such as Make it a Weekend (if the event is on Thurs, Fri or Sat) or simply “Do you need or want a hotel room?”
The third option is a button (we recommend using an easy to spot graphic such as this one), which would sit next to your Ticket Packages graphic.
When invoked, it would display the widget in a window.
The instructions for installing this tool can be found in the Event Widget section.
To be installed on your corporate website as a VISIT US page
The instructions for adding this static widget to your corporate site can be found in the VENUE WIDGET section below.
To plan travel to any event venue
The instructions to load the dynamic venue widget to your venue landing pages can be found in the VENUE WIDGET section below.
Address lookup
Social Sharing
Smarter Driving Directions
Smarter Car Rental
The Event Widget
It is distinct from the Venue widget in that it has a specific date range for the event and a location where the event is held.
The next section includes your snippet. Then you will find the instructions for our Dynamic tool, which shows you how to substitute your data for our variables in real time, so that you only have to install the widget snippet once. Once it is installed, if you wish to make changes, you can edit the base elements of the widget in the Portal and you do not have to reinstall the snippet. See the defaults in the last section.
Your dynamic code snippet for Seatslink (use with variable fields outlined below)
Dynamic Tool - Customizing with variables from your system
We’ve included the recommended variables for Seatslink (shown encased in %VARIABLENAME% signs, which you will strip out in your actual entry):
<script type=”text/javascript”> |
tripWidget({ |
eventStart: ‘YYYY/MM/DD’, |
eventEnd: ‘YYYY/MM/DD’, |
headerText: ‘Plan your trip to ‘, |
appendPOI: ‘Y’, |
lookupvenue: “Y”,
venuename: “%VENUENAME% poiName: ‘%EVENTNAME%’, |
address: ‘%CITY%,%STATE%’, |
trackingCode: ‘%CUSTOMERTRACKINGINFO%’, |
imageUrl: ‘%IMAGEURL%’, |
imageLink: ‘%IMAGELINK%’, |
}) |
</script> |
Once you have the code installed, contact us with the test link and we will help to test on multiple platforms and on multiple browsers. |
Your Variable Settings can be modified in your TripProximity Portal
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The Venue Widget (dynamic)
This tool is distinct from the Event widget in that the dates of travel are relative to the date that the tool is displayed, e.g. travel 7 days from today for 1 night.
Click the HDQ widget above to see the widget for the Seatslink corporate website for people traveling to see you.
The next section includes your snippet. Then you will find the instructions for our Dynamic tool, which shows you how to substitute your data for our variables in real time, so that you only have to install the widget snippet once. Once it is installed, if you wish to make changes, you can edit the base elements of the widget in the Portal and you do not have to reinstall the snippet. See the defaults in the last section.
Your code snippet (paste in as Text or in a Raw HTML container) for HDQ
Your dynamic code snippet for Venue (use with variable fields outlined below)
Dynamic Venue Tool - Customizing with variables from your system
We’ve included the recommended variables for TicketNetwork (shown encased in %VARIABLENAME% signs, which you will strip out in your actual entry):
<script type=”text/javascript”> |
tripWidget({ |
daysFromToday: ‘7’, |
numberOfDays: ‘1’, |
headerText: ‘Plan your trip to ‘, |
appendPOI: ‘Y’, |
poiName: ‘%CONTACTNAME%’, |
address: ‘%STREET%, %CITY%,%STATE%,%POSTCODE%’, |
trackingCode: ‘%CUSTOMERTRACKINGINFO%’, |
imageUrl: ‘%IMAGEURL%’, |
imageLink: ‘%IMAGELINK%’, |
</script> |
Once you have the code installed, contact us with the test link and we will help to test on multiple platforms and on multiple browsers. |
Your Variable Settings can be modified in your TripProximity Portal
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What brands can I choose from for the booking system that the traveler sees?
The Brand Options
The default refid is 5135 and the default brand is The Hotels Nearby. | |||||
To change the brand to one of our niche brands, you must use the combination of the refid and reflickid2 below. | |||||
These can be overridden at transaction time by using the refid and refclickid2 variables | |||||
refid= | Brand | refclickid2= | |||
5135 | The Hotels Nearby | ||||
6832 | The Hotels Nearby Amusement Parks | hotelbyattractions | |||
6832 | The Hotels Nearby Assisted Living | hotelsbyamusementparks | |||
6832 | The Hotels Nearby Attractions | hotelsbyassistedliving.com | |||
6832 | The Hotels Nearby Bloggers | hotelsbybloggers | |||
6832 | The Hotels Nearby Companies | hotelsbycompanies | |||
6832 | The Hotels Nearby Convention Centers | hotelsbyconventioncenters | |||
6832 | The Hotels Nearby Cruise Ports | hotelsbycruiseports | |||
6832 | The Hotels Nearby Doctors | hotelsbydoctors | |||
6832 | The Hotels Nearby Embassies | hotelsbyembassies | |||
6856 | The Hotels Nearby Events | hotelsbyevents | |||
6832 | The Hotels Nearby Festivals | hotelsbyfestivals | |||
6832 | The Hotels Nearby Funeral Homes | hotelsbyfuneralhomes | |||
6988 | The Hotels Nearby Golf Courses | hotelsbygolfcourses | |||
6832 | The Hotels Nearby Hospice | hotelsbyhospice | |||
6855 | The Hotels Nearby Hospitals | hotelsbyhospitals | |||
6832 | The Hotels Nearby Military Bases | hotelsbymilitarybases | |||
6832 | The Hotels Nearby Museums | hotelsbymuseums | |||
6832 | The Hotels Nearby Nursing Homes | hotelsbynursinghomes | |||
6832 | The Hotels Nearby Places | hotelsbyplaces | |||
6832 | The Hotels Nearby Prisons | hotelsbyprisons | |||
6832 | The Hotels Nearby Racetracks | hotelsbyracetracks | |||
6832 | The Hotels Nearby Spas | hotelsbyspas | |||
6832 | The Hotels Nearby Theatres | hotelsbytheatres | |||
6832 | The Hotels Nearby Trainstations | hotelsbytrainstations | |||
6857 | The Hotels Nearby Universities | hotelsbyuniversities | |||
6832 | The Hotels Nearby Wineries | hotelsbywineries | |||
6832 | The Hotels Nearby Zoos | hotelsbyzoos | |||
7028 | TravelingtoGIVE |
Private Label Branding
For a one time fee of $1500 you can provide your own header artwork to us for the booking back end.
Tech Tips
External System Interaction
- Google Places for lookup of the venues and addresses in the address field
- Google Maps for lookup of the latitude/longitude of any address
Once the input from the widget is received, we pass a search string to our booking system. It contains:
- Brand to be displayed in the booking system
- Travel parameters
- Tracking information to provide reporting back to you for each client
CSS
Rules for Display
The date fields for events can be coupled with a business rule. For instance if you have an event that begins before noon, you may want to set the date of arrival to 1 day before the event begins. If the event ends after 3pm, you may want to set the date of departure to 1 day after the event.
Just a reminder, even if there is no address or a partial address (city/state), our new widget with the Google Places lookup can find the precise address of the venue or company that they are visiting (even a Starbucks or TopGolf! or finding a hotel near someone’s house that works from home). The user controls this by using the pencil tool on the address field to do their own lookup.
Static Widgets versus Dynamic Widgets
async onload=”tripWidget()”
The dynamic widget does not load asynchronously. If you turn on the dynamic flag in the portal in the widget editor, it removes that line from the code snippet that is generated. If you try to install a dynamic widget directly into an HTML container on WordPress, it will NOT render.
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Portal Invitation
From our portal you can modify your widgets, create new ones and see your usage statistics. We are still in the process of rolling this portal out, so over the next few months you will see many new features. It is important to note that if you update a widget you do NOT need to reinstall it. The changes will be live immediately. The script that you write to augment the code snippet that is generated by the portal will override the fields that are included in your script. We have put them in as %VARIABLENAME% into the Event and Venue widgets. We have also built a few sample widgets for you that are included at the top of this page. These are static widgets.
For any other details regarding widget customization, please access the Support Center.