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Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2026: HeyMax
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November 10, 2025
HeyMax turns everyday spend into aspirational travel by rewarding extra miles on everyday transactions.
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Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2026: HiGem
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November 10, 2025
HiGem AI aims to help tourism organizations at the national, regional and city levels to improve the travel experience for visitors the local economies.
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November 10, 2025
HostAI is a "growth function as a service" that handles the direct revenue engine, from guest acquisition to on-site conversion and retention, for OTAs and STRs.
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November 10, 2025
Kismet wants to make it easy for hotels to stand out in an AI storefront.
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Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2026: Landng
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November 10, 2025
Landng helps brands create interactive consumer journeys with maps offering an alternative to AR/VR that connects consumers to brand stories in real life.
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Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2026: Meili
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November 10, 2025
Meili builds technology that enables ancillaries such as car rental to integrate directly with airlines and travel brands.
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Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2026: Nowadays
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November 10, 2025
Nowadays is an AI-native platform that automates venue sourcing, negotiation and reporting.
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Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2026: Roamr
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November 10, 2025
Roamr helps companies save on travel costs by enabling employees to stay with friends on work trips. The savings are split between the company, the traveler and the host.
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Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2026: VanityPass
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November 10, 2025
VanityPass is taking a new approach to loyalty and travel rewards through its AI loyalty intelligence engine, which is built to deliver personalization at scale.
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Amadeus reports group revenue growth in Q3
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November 7, 2025
Air IT solutions revenue for the nine months to the end of September was €1.7 billion while air distribution revenue was €2.3 billion for the same period.
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Nearly half of Airbnb experiences bookings unrelated to accommodations
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November 6, 2025
When asked why Airbnb wasn’t a partner on OpenAI’s launch of ChatGPT apps, CEO Brian Chesky said the company didn't believe the integration was "ready."
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Expedia Group outlines strategies for OpenAI partnership, highlights B2B strength
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November 6, 2025
When asked about Expedia Group’s strategic approach to its OpenAI partnership, CEO Ariane Gorin said the company has two main priorities.
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Tripadvisor confirms job cuts, restructuring to focus on experiences
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November 6, 2025
Tripadvisor Group is shifting to become an "experiences-led and AI-enabled company."
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2 of India's travel founders on their journeys, rivalries and the future of the industry
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November 6, 2025
At WiT Singapore last month, Deep Kalra of MakeMyTrip and Aloke Bajpai of Ixigo weighed in on domestic travel in India, AI and more.
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Distribution bookings growth pushes Sabre's Q3 revenue to $715M
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November 5, 2025
The GDS’ distribution revenue increased 4% to $575 million, attributed to an increase in air and hotel distribution bookings
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