Sparkboard
Save today. Go tomorrow.
A free iPhone app that turns saved travel inspiration into places travelers can plan around. Send a reel, TikTok, link, screenshot or note, and every place in it lands on one map.
sparkboard.net
Travel, Inc.
From travel inspiration to travel booked.
Ravel Travel builds technology that captures where people want to go and turns it into trips. Our products are Sparkboard, a consumer app for saving travel inspiration, and Ravel Trips, a travel agency led by human planning specialists.
Scottsdale, Arizona · Sparkboard launches on iPhone Nov 19, 2026
The problem
60%
of travelers name social media as a top-three source of trip ideas. Only 26% start with booking sites.
65
touchpoints, roughly, before a trip is booked, up from 45 in 2018.
70%+
revisit the same sites repeatedly before deciding, rebuilding their context each time.
That inspiration is scattered across apps, screenshots, and notes, and much of it is saved and forgotten. The gap between inspiration and booking is where travel demand gets lost.
Source: Skift Research and McKinsey & Company, Winning Hearts in an Age of Infinite Travel Choices, September 2026. Based on a survey of more than 1,000 US travelers and a diary study of 211 research and booking sessions. Read the summary.
Our approach
Sparkboard captures inspiration from the content people already engage with and organizes it into structured, plannable trips using a patent-pending method. When a traveler is ready, Ravel Trips planning specialists convert that intent into bookings.
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Inspiration
Reels, TikToks, links, screenshots, notes
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Sparkboard
Places, stays and things to do, mapped by region
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Itinerary
Built from the traveler's own picks
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Ravel Trips
A planning specialist refines and books
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Trip booked
Inspiration turned into demand
White paper · 2026 edition
Knowing the traveler first
Travelers form their intentions in a weeks-long inspiration phase that booking sites and advisors can't see. By the time they reach out, the decision is mostly made. Our white paper lays out how a traveler profile built from the content they already share closes that visibility gap, and why it is an advantage independent advisors can own.
Products
Ravel Trips
Someday is here.
A boutique travel agency whose human planning specialists refine itineraries and handle bookings. Sparkboard users reach a specialist from any itinerary.
raveltrips.comThe team
We've each spent our careers making complicated things work. We started Ravel because travel inspiration is everywhere, and turning it into a real trip is still harder than it should be.
Brice Dreamer has run PMOs and large capital projects in pharmaceuticals, and worked on software development and AI strategy at large corporations. The lesson he carries over: listen carefully, plan honestly, and do what you said you'd do. Off the clock, he plays in a death metal reggae band.
Matt Ruth held leadership roles at American Express in enterprise transformation, process engineering and product development. At Ravel, he runs operations and still plans trips for clients himself, so every process gets tested on real travelers.
Peter DeVroede has been building software for over two decades, at Adobe, Electronic Arts and startups, and co-founded the podcast platform Stitcher (now part of SiriusXM). Now he builds the tools our planners and Sparkboard users rely on. He enjoys skiing, golfing and scuba diving, activities that occasionally factor into his travel plans.
We're a small team, and we plan to earn trust one trip at a time. Ravel Travel is based in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Brice Dreamer
Co-founder and CEO
Matt Ruth
Co-founder and COO
Peter DeVroede
Co-founder and CTO
Press
Sparkboard launches on iPhone Nov 19, turning saved travel reels into plannable trips.
About Ravel Travel
Ravel Travel, Inc. is a Scottsdale, Arizona travel technology company that helps travelers turn inspiration into trips. Its consumer app, Sparkboard, lets users save travel ideas from reels, TikToks, links, screenshots, and notes, and organizes them into places and itineraries using patent-pending technology. Its agency, Ravel Trips, pairs travelers with human planning specialists to plan and book. Learn more at raveltravelinc.com.