Go Trexx founder Samantha Lurey on making travel more rewarding

socalTECH.com recently sat down with Go Trexx founder Samantha Lurey to discuss making travel a more rewarding experience, particularly when traveling with kids. Go Trexx, which is based in Mission Viejo, thinks it’s by engaging kids with mobile applications which provide background information, helps to build excitement, and gets kids involved in traveling to different destinations. Below is an excerpt from the full interview.
socalTECH: What is Go Trexx all about?
Samantha Lurey: “We are modernizing and changing round the way people travel. We’d love to say we’re revolutionizing travel, but we can’t go that far just yet. But, what we are doing, is looking at how people travel and what modern tools we can provide to make the experience better, in the form of travel guides and things like that. Our first set of products started rolling out in May, and are a set of travel guides for children. There are tons of travel guide sin the marketplace, which talk to parents about where to stay, where to eat, and where to go with kids on a family vacation. However, the rub is that lots of parents are spending all of this time, money on the planning process, and when they get to the Statue of Liberty or Washington Monument, they find out the kids are bored, disengaged, miss their friends, and just want to go home. No wonder more parents are frustrated about this, and don’t want to go on vacation, because it’s a less than rewarding experience.”