{"id":14477,"date":"2015-02-11T20:00:27","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T20:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/independentweekender.com\/?p=14477"},"modified":"2015-02-11T20:00:27","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T20:00:27","slug":"international-trip-planner-calls-springville-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenstreetdata.com\/PS\/2015\/02\/11\/international-trip-planner-calls-springville-home\/","title":{"rendered":"International trip planner calls Springville home"},"content":{"rendered":"

BY JOSH SIEGEL<\/strong>
\n Times-Shamrock Writer<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Hennie<\/a>

Hennie Van den Hengel in Burma on Tripsite\u2019s Burma Adventure bike tour.<\/p><\/div>\n

Hennie Van Den Hengel loved riding bicycles through her native home in the Netherlands. When she moved to the United States after 35 years, she opened Tripsite, a foreign tour broker business, in Springville with her daughter, Gea, to help others get the same experience that she had.<\/p>\n

That was in 1999. 16 years later Tripsite has expanded to include tours from 42 different countries in Europe and Asia, as well as adding two more Van Den Hengals, Carla and Jan, to the owner\u2019s table.<\/p>\n

According to Jan, the chief operating manager of Tripsite, many of the touring companies in Europe are small operations. Too small, in fact, to be effectively heard in the United States.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey don\u2019t have the visibility, or even the ability to market themselves,\u201d Jan said.<\/p>\n

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A group of Tripsite tour cyclists on the Romantic Roads and Bavarian Lakes tour.<\/p><\/div>\n

Tripsite acts as a broker that connects these small operations to people who are looking for bicycle or boat tour vacations.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a wonderful way to see a place and really experience it,\u201d Jan said, \u201cIt\u2019s a way to take a vacation without being gluttonous and gaining ten pounds.\u201d<\/p>\n

I think that what you experience is–its addicting,\u201d added Carla Van Den Hengel, the chief customer officer.<\/p>\n

On Tripsite you can either book a casual 4-8 day bike trip through the Alentejo region of Portugal or a grueling six day ride through the Alps or any other combination of skill level, distance, and area of interest. Despite the multitudes of tours available, the Van Den Hengel family isn\u2019t worried about their quality.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t just put anyone on the list,\u201d Jan said, \u201cWe\u2019re pretty stringent.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have either biked in the area ourselves or we are so familiar with the operator that we trust their product,\u201d Carla added.<\/p>\n

Currently Tripsite\u2019s business comes mainly from North America, but the Van Den Hengels are looking to change that.<\/p>\n

According to Jan, they are already the number one return for Portuguese and Spanish language internet searches on bike tours.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would love to see us grow in more continents and offer tours in America,\u201d Carla said.<\/p>\n

Tripsite can be found at Tripsite.com or reached by calling 877-965-2064.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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