Commercial Partners

Y Partnership Y Partnership is America’s leading marketing, advertising and public relations agency serving travel, leisure and entertainment clients and coauthor of the widely acclaimed National Travel MONITOR(SM) with Yankelovich, Inc. Headquartered in Orlando, the agency maintains additional offices in New York, Los Angeles, Honolulu, Vancouver, Mexico City and London.

Chameleon Strategies works with Y Partnership to leverage their incredible insight, especially around the US traveler. Jens Thraenhart also assists Y Partnership as Senior Digital Strategist.
August Hotels & Properties August Hotels & Properties, Inc. is a hotel company, based in Vancouver (Canada) and Beijing (China) developing hotels combing life enrichment principles of mind, body, and spirit as its principle mode of operations. With a focus on China, the company plans to collaborate with internationally renowned architects and designers to create contemporary groundbreaking hotels.

Chameleon Strategies executives are also part of August Hotels, and leverage respective synergies to provide value to its clients. Jens Thraenhart is President of August Hotels & Properties.
Contac Services Contac Services is Canada’s largest direct marketing, print and fulfillment company specializing in personalized 1to1 communications that build brand and customer loyalty. Originally founded in 1978 as a third party logistics company for the travel industry, Contac expanded its services to become the only single-source solution in North America to produce and deliver personalized 1to1 marketing seamlessly. Today the company provides the highest quality production, lowest cost and fastest distribution of marketing collateral to major brands around the world. Headquartered in Vancouver, B.C., Contac has facilities in Toronto and Montreal, and will open regional locations in 2009 in Europe and Asia to ensure a complete service for overseas customers.

Chameleon Strategies assists Contac Services in expanding its services globally, and leverages Contac’s innovative products and services for its clients to reach consumers world-wide. Jens Thraenhart is a member of Contac Services’ Advisory Board.
PlanetEye PlanetEye is an online travel-planning service for travellers looking to easily and quickly research, organize and share their trips. Featuring a powerful and easy-to-use planning tool; geotagged photography; leading edge mapping technology, and extensive travel content from a team of in-house writers and a growing number of professional sources, PlanetEye is for travelers who want a new and exciting way to explore where to go and what to do. At the core of PlanetEye’s travel planning service is the Travel Pack that lets travelers “clip” the interesting photographs, attractions, hotels and restaurants discovered on PlanetEye when they are planning a trip or simply putting together travel ideas.

Chameleon Strategies works with PlanetEye to make its unique platform available to destinations and travel organizations to power destination content in a strategic and consumer-centric fashion.  Jens Thraenhart is a member of PlanetEye’s Advisory Board.
Circos (Brand Karma) Circos is a leading technology company that specializes in extracting brand sentiments from the actual text in consumer-written reviews and comments. The company’s proprietary technologies apply semantic analysis to social media, surfacing rich insights about brands based on personal preferences. Circos specializes in social media for the hotel and tourism industries, and its Brand Karma product is helping leading hotel brands increase revenue, improve search engine optimization, and credibly brand themselves online.

Chameleon Strategies is leveraging Brand Karma’s innovative platform to help clients, destinations, hotel and travel organizations understand the voice of the consumer on social network sites. Jens Thraenhart is a member of Brand Karma’s Advisory Board.
Tourism ROI TourismROI is a unique centralized source of information for tourism operations, development and investment opportunities worldwide. The web site www.TourismROI.com provides extensive and real-time destination-specific information about the tourism industry, enabling participants to make current and future operating, business and investment decisions, and speeding up the entire investment and business decision-making process.

Chameleon Strategies leverages TourismROI’s platform when engaging in master-planning and tourism development projects.
McAnerin International Ian McAnerin is regarded as one of the most foremost experts in international search engine optimization and marketing, as author and speaker on the topic.  Since 1994, his company McAnerin International  has focused only on multinational, multilingual SEO and SEM, including country code domain registration, geolocation, and foreign language copywriting for the web, with its key focus being on outstanding, individualized customer service.
Chameleon Strategies has had great experience with McAnerin International’s expertise. In an industry that is as fast changing as SEO, McAnerin knows the trends before they are known outside the walls of the major search engines and is always a step ahead.
Rezgo Rezgo is a simple to use, yet extremely powerful online booking solution designed for tour and activity providers who want to accept bookings on their website and increase revenues through wholesalers, vendors, aggregators, and travel agents. Rezgo uses a performance based model. Rezgo is a service for tour & activity suppliers to market their products and services through their own websites as well as through partner websites, such as DMOs, travel agents, or other travel resellers.
Chameleon Strategies has partnered with Rezgo’s parent company Sentias on various projects, including the Tips-from-the-T-List, and is impressed with the innovation and simplicity of the Rezgo platform, user-interface, and business model.