TravelStorysGPS Soars to New Heights with Launching Its Milestone 200th Tour

TravelStorysGPS Soars to New Heights with Launching Its Milestone 200th Tour
Jackson Hole-based mobile technology company TravelStorysGPS is celebrating the launch of its 200th geolocated audio tour, which is dedicated to female champions of land conservation. The company now hosts the largest library of curated, geolocated U.S. audio tours on a professionally maintained platform, TravelStorys™.

TravelStorysGPS founder and CEO Story Clark states, “This is a momentous milestone for our company. We started with the goal, the dream really, of connecting travelers everywhere to the fascinating and inspiring stories that communities and landscapes have to tell. As stories are the currency of memory, we wanted to fill travelers’ memories with great stories about the places they visit.”

What began as a Girl Scouts project for a young Princeton, New Jersey, resident, Madeleine Freundlich, to help to protect the land in her area evolved into this beautifully crafted mobile audio tour telling the stories of the passionate women who came before her. The Women in Conservation tour guides listeners through a 220-acre preserve protected by D&R Greenway Land Trust, sharing stories of more than a dozen women who have had a profound impact on our global landscape, including women's suffrage advocate Marjory Stoneman Douglas, who helped to establish Everglades National Park, Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai, who pioneered the Green Belt Movement in Africa, and Story Clark herself.

Clark has dedicated her life to land conservation and helping national parks and nonprofit organizations raise funding and awareness to further their own missions. She launched TravelStorysGPS in 2013 with its debut tour from Jackson to Teton Pass, soon followed by a second tour in Grand Teton National Park. Since then, the TravelStorys tour library has grown to 200 tours nationwide and internationally, including more than 60 in the Mountain West region—with many more on the way. The TravelStorysGPS team specializes in providing expert, one-on-one guidance and support throughout the entire tour-building process, ensuring high-quality, customized products that engage, educate and entertain its users.

TravelStorysGPS's mission is connecting people to places in a memorable way by combining history and exploration in its presentation of stories that offer invaluable insights about the lands they are seeing in real time—hands-free. Visitors and locals alike can download the TravelStorys app for free to serve as their guide to the world around them and enjoy tours on location or remotely.

TravelStorysGPS is a female-owned and -led software-as-a-service company and Best Mobile AppAwards 2018 April winner for best mobile app design. Not only was the tech company  founded by a woman, but it is also run by a team of strong, resourceful women, who build outstanding rapport with their clients and have a genuine love and connection to the land. “What better way to commemorate our women-led company than by honoring important women in the land conservation sector,” says Clark.

“Our mission is to pair the greatest communication tool of our time—the smartphone—with the greatest communication tool of all time—storytelling—to enrich the on-site and remote traveler’s experience,” Clark adds. “Storytelling is the captivating and enduring way that we entertain and communicate best with each other and learn about places. I wanted to use mobile app technology as a portal to, rather than a barrier from, connecting us to great places. Even if a listener never gets out of their car, they will now be able to connect with the land in a meaningful and unique way.”

About TravelStorysGPS: TravelStorysGPS LLC is a mission-driven mobile app development company based in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, transforming cultural interpretation and enjoyment of places into accessible and memorable experiences. TravelStorysGPS leverages fun facts and the power of storytelling to forge a real-time connection to place. For publishers, TravelStorysGPS meets the communication and outreach needs of charitable organizations, public agencies, and businesses through the latest developments in location-based storytelling and delivery. Learn more at travelstorys.com and download and explore the TravelStorys app for free on the App Store and Google Play Store.

About D&R Greenway Land Trust: D&R Greenway Land Trust is an accredited nonprofit that has reached a new milestone of over 21,000 acres of land preserved throughout central New Jersey since 1989. By protecting land in perpetuity and creating public trails, it gives everyone the opportunity to enjoy the great outdoors. The land trust’s preserved farms and community gardens provide local organic food for residents of the region—including those most in need. Through strategic land conservation and stewardship, D&R Greenway combats climate change, protects birds and wildlife, and ensures clean drinking water for future generations. D&R Greenway's mission is centered on connecting land with people from all walks of life.