Phocuswright brings the travel industry’s latest wave of innovation to the stage at multiple events across the globe.
At Phocuswright Europe, innovators battle for a shot at being crowned the EMEA Travel Innovator of the Year or winning the People's Choice Award.
The conference's focus on innovation is split into two elements: Summit and Launch.
Summit - Phocuswright Europe Battleground innovators demonstrate and face off with the Phocuswright Dragons, a collection of the industry’s most informed insiders. Battleground is the best place for innovators to demonstrate fresh ideas in front of potential investors, incubators and future partners.
Launch - Innovation isn’t just for startups - established companies are breaking new ground and developing new technologies. This is the stage for demonstrators changing the travel landscape within established companies.
Here is this year's list of brands competing at the event:
Summit
GuruWalk - The revolution of 'pay-what-you-want' walking tours - find out why travelers love this concept so much.
Cruisewatch - Cruisewatch is transforming the way people find and book cruises through 360-degree online cruise advice and predictive analytics.
Efectio Sleep - Helping hotel guests improve sleep quality and bring loyalty program gamification to a new level. No more jet lag, only fun.
Nannybag - Changing the way people travel.
Klazz - Language travel is reinvented by applying algorithmic solutions to match students with freelance teachers abroad.
Travel Ledger - Welcome to a new era of low-cost billing and payment in travel thanks to distributed ledger technology.
Questo - A mobile app for city exploration games in which users solve clues for discovering new places and stories.
Setoo - Empowering e-businesses to turn insurance into products consumers love and providing a new insurance experience.
Launch
MediaAlpha - Exposing the muddy world of the dominant opaque travel comparison ad networks and introducing a new - completely transparent - way to buy and sell these high-performance, high-intent ad placements.
ShieldSquare - Protect the reputation and growth of your online business from malicious actors and threats through a simple cloud service.
Exoticca - The curated marketplace for best value long-haul tour packages.
Zizoo - This leading global boat holiday platform is changing the entire travel space with a first-ever GDS for boat holidays. Boat holidays made easy for everyone!
PhocusWire Studio interviews
We are interviewing every innovator at this year's event... Check back regularly over the coming weeks for those interviews and a clip of each presentation.