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STARTUP STAGE: Triplay uses AI to create personalized travel itineraries

By Mitra Sorrells | February 6, 2024

Triplay, launched in August 2023, uses algorithms to optimize suggested routes based on geodata, enabling travelers to save time while visiting as many locations as possible. Read More

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STARTUP STAGE: MintPass helps travelers document journeys, inspire others

By Morgan Hines | February 2, 2024

The goal of MintPass is to create a platform for travelers to document their adventures through seamless collecting in a way that doesn’t take away from the experience itself. Read More

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STARTUP STAGE: Hostshare lets short-term rental hosts trade unbooked nights

By Mitra Sorrells | January 30, 2024

Hostshare membership is $395 per year and gives hosts up to 21 nights of stays at other properties just for paying the cleaning fee. Read More

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STARTUP STAGE: FlyMeOut is an invitation-only "social travel" club

By Mitra Sorrells | January 17, 2024

FlyMeOut is an invitation-only travel matchmaking-platform that brings together people with shared interests and preferences to embark on adventures together. Read More

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STARTUP STAGE: Eco.mio helps companies guide employees to choose greener travel options

By Mitra Sorrells | January 8, 2024

Founded in 2021, Eco.mio helps companies achieve their climate goals and bring travel costs down using an add-on to existing booking tools. Read More

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STARTUP STAGE: Textomap creates interactive maps from location-based text

By Linda Fox | December 12, 2023

Textomap helps businesses and individuals visualize and display location-based content, which improves customer engagement by providing more context and data. Read More

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STARTUP STAGE: ZentrumHub's AI-based hotel booking engine

By Morgan Hines | December 8, 2023

Zentrumhub is an AI-powered hotel booking platform that is B2B, B2C and meta-ready and provides an end-to-end experience for users. Read More

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STARTUP STAGE: Crewfare aims to make booking event and group travel easy

By Mitra Sorrells | October 11, 2023

Crewfare is a customizable group travel booking platform offering events, festivals, sports and brands with the ability to capitalize on travel while providing attendees with a streamlined and simpler... Read More

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STARTUP STAGE: Tango targets “mass affluent” travelers with AI-based booking platform

By Mitra Sorrells | September 11, 2023

Tango combines artificial intelligence, machine learning and human curation to provide design, booking and servicing of hyper-personalized trips. Read More

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STARTUP STAGE: Landng offers bookable travel itineraries from content creators

By Mitra Sorrells | July 31, 2023

Landng provides a database of customizable itineraries to help users discover, share and activate travel plans curated by a community of creators, travelers and brands. Read More

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STARTUP STAGE: BookingData helps airlines tap into ancillary revenue

By Linda Fox | July 24, 2023

Airlines can capitalize on the travel patterns and profiles of passengers by using BookingData to offer travelers tailored offers directly from ancillary partners. Read More

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STARTUP STAGE: Squake provides sustainability solutions for travel companies

By Mitra Sorrells | June 26, 2023

Squake’s API calculates carbon emissions related to any type of travel, such as an air or rail trip or a hotel stay, and then automates carbon reduction or compensation in the booking flow. Read More

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STARTUP STAGE: Roam Around uses ChatGPT to tailor free travel itineraries

By Derek Catron | May 18, 2023

Built on OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Roam Around claims to be the world’s first viral AI travel planner, crafting free personalized itineraries for its users. Read More