Robert Oblon - CEO of Travopoly

In the 19 years that I have been designing and modeling companies in and for the travel industry, today I am more excited than ever about the continued journey. When I started as a web designer in the mid 1990’s, I didn’t have a clue how big the travel industry was. Today, we have been blessed to not only understand its size, but understand how to be in business in it. How to market and sell in it, how to negotiate and excel in it and most of all, how to bring real value to our customers and members.

The journey to get here has helped us learn what people just like you are looking for based on budget, time, family and desire. Pure and simple, people are looking for value. Not the cheapest deal, but the best value for their money.

Travopoly was originally formed back in 2004 based on the concept of a “Monopoly in Travopoly” as we originated meta-search in online search engines. During the last several years, we have continued to elevate our brand and strategies to sell more travel and service more customers in this $7 Trillion industry full of huge online competitors. Finding creative and successful ways to do so continues to be challenging, but, we strive to think outside-the-box and formulate plans that are unique. One of those plans is to allow people to book their vacations without having to have the credit on a card or all the money in the bank right now, like almost all OTAs require for a family vacation. Our No Credit Check Vacation Financing enables millions of people in the U.S. who live check to check to make payments rather than forego one based on lack of resources.

Our primary goal is to allow more people to vacation that otherwise cannot. It’s amazing to see the studies that show, for example, in 2013, over 500,000,000 (that’s 500 million) vacation days were left unused in the U.S. alone. When you really study the numbers and the “why” it boils down to economics and too many families inability to use them (vacation days). We intend to continue to help change that with our current and further strategies.

We have a strong acquisition strategy to acquire other travel agencies but one our greatest acquisition of sorts is personnel.

I’m excited about the future, blessed for the past and looking forward to our continued mission of making Travopoly a household name.

Robert Oblon
CEO