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Valle de la Luna is focused on offering astronomical tourism to observe the moon, galaxies, planets, and satellites. It also includes a tour with walks, hiking, and tasting of typical dishes of the country.

Yada is a business that provides an AI platform designed to automate guest engagement for vacation rentals and hotels. By streamlining communication, Yada enables Airbnb hosts to manage their properties more efficiently, automating approximately 90% of messaging and interactions. This automation not only reduces the workload for hosts but also enhances the guest experience by allowing visitors to obtain the information and assistance they need in a conversational manner. The platform also facilitates quick feedback from guests, addressing potential issues that may otherwise be overlooked. Yada has proven effective in helping hosts resolve various maintenance issues, such as leaking pipes and water pressure problems, ensuring a smoother operation for property managers while enhancing guest satisfaction.

Lodgeur Incorporated owns, operates, and leases apartments for business and solo travelers, couples, families, and work colleagues. It offers short and extended stay options; and cleaning, laundry, maintenance, and other services. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Houston, Texas.

Access Travels offers updated, in-depth, detailed information, for all areas of accessible tourism.

AtEase Rentals is a short-term lodging service based in Round Rock, Texas, that specializes in connecting vacation rental hosts with federal and military members, including their families, during official travel. Founded in 2019, the company addresses the unique lodging needs of service members, Department of Defense employees, military contractors, and other federal employees by providing a reliable and cost-effective platform for booking accommodations. AtEase ensures that all listed properties meet federal and military lodging criteria, offering travelers ease of use and transparency in reimbursement processes. This innovative approach aims to enhance the travel experience for military personnel and their families by providing comfortable and safe stays during their official assignments.

Provider of curated vacation homes designed to bridge the gap between boutique lodging and reliable hospitality, aiming to elevate travel experiences for modern millennials and Gen Z. The company provides upscale yet affordable homes that feel like cosy personal dwellings, enabling travellers to enjoy comfortable stays with convenient hotel-like services, fostering authentic connections with local communities.

Enable anyone, novice or experienced, to discover nature and the outdoors, through facilitating camping and other outdoors activities and services, in a simple, honest and friendly way.

PraeSpero Farms operates a residential community designed to aid individuals experiencing homelessness and substance use disorder. The facility provides individualized support aimed at fostering lasting recovery and enhancing community safety. Residents have access to essential resources, including stable housing, care coordination, and skill training. The unique setting of a working, sustainable farm offers an opportunity for hands-on learning and personal development, ultimately promoting community reintegration for those facing these challenges.

We balance the power in the accommodation industry by connecting accommodation providers worldwide and using their collective power to resolve issues they are facing. WhosYourGuest (WYG) platform allows accommodation providers to review their guests, positively or negatively. By searching our database ho(s)tels can check out the guest before they check in helping them prevent problems before they occur. This can save hotels millions of dollars in prevented damages and losses to their establishment and reputation while at the same time betters the stay quality and safety of their other guests.

GuestBox is a welcome box service providing hosts high-end, quality essentials needed for their guests' stay.

Sleepbox, Inc. specializes in designing and developing modular hotel pods that provide compact sleeping solutions in various locations such as airports, offices, and hospitals. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, the company offers a range of products, including the InnerSpace module and single and double Sleepbox units. These innovative, technology-driven micro-hotels enable partners to easily set up accommodations in high-traffic areas, catering to travelers seeking privacy and comfort for short or extended stays. Sleepbox aims to make restful experiences accessible and affordable for individuals on the go, enhancing the convenience of travel.

GuestLee is a Swiss Property Management company. In a exponentially growing market GuestLee positioning settled naturally by trust & recommendation to high-end property owners. 90% of their customers are seniors that worked hard to build real estate assets. With today’s versatile economical environment, living on savings or limited pension allowances, it is quite difficult to sustain life standards as well as to pay property maintenance fees. GuestLee is a decentralized business model using latest technologies to help seniors to generate revenue

Socialease Ltd is a company based in Lausanne, Switzerland, that provides an AI-driven software platform designed for the hospitality industry, including hotels and restaurants. Founded in 2015, Socialease offers a comprehensive assistant that streamlines digital communication across multiple social media channels. The platform enables businesses to manage their online presence by suggesting ready-to-use communication topics and facilitating the creation of tailored content using text, images, and videos. Additionally, it helps track and schedule media communications, allowing users to effectively control their e-reputation and enhance visibility in a competitive market. By centralizing digital interactions, Socialease transforms the communication challenges faced by small and medium-sized enterprises into efficient marketing opportunities.

Y2Y Harvard Square, a student-run overnight shelter, employs a youth-to-youth model to provide a safe and affirming environment for young adults experiencing homelessness. Y2Y guests will have opportunities to collaborate with service providers, other youth experiencing homelessness, and student volunteers to create sustainable pathways out of homelessness and develop skills for long-term success. Y2Y provides opportunities for both guests and volunteers to become the next generation’s leading advocates for youth-driven solutions to homelessness.

Zero Hour is helps restaurant owners find workforce in less than 5 seconds.

JUBEO allows hotels to efficiently sell extra services through a platform of web & mobile apps. By addressing the common needs of independent hotels, which dominate the European market, JUBEO's business model focuses on creating win-win partnerships. Hotels are missing out on additional revenue because ordering room service, massages or laundry services involves too many transaction barriers. Millennials are becoming the main holidaymakers and they spend more and more on services.

The Plum Guide Limited is a vacation rental company based in London, United Kingdom, that specializes in providing high-quality homes, apartments, and lofts for tourists. Established in 2015, the company employs a rigorous selection process known as The Plum Test, which evaluates each property through a combination of algorithms and expert assessments. This meticulous approach ensures that only the top 1% of homes are accepted into their portfolio. Since its launch in January 2016, The Plum Guide has experienced significant growth, expanding at a rate of 20% per month and vetting over 80,000 homes, ultimately achieving more than £10 million in annual sales. The company's success is supported by a diverse group of investors from various sectors, underscoring its strong market position in the vacation rental industry.

Irhal is an Arabic word which means “Go Away.” While it may sound rude and impolite, the magic of travel comes alive with the addition of the word “often.” The niceties of “please” and “often” have been removed to make way for a short and memorable domain name, but the site aims to nurture the magic of travel.

Easy Pairings empowers restaurants to find staff — faster and cheaper. They make searching and hiring for front-of-house positions (servers, bartenders and hosts) a snap. From fine dining restaurateurs to fast-casual operators, employers get instant, free access to active job seekers — bringing efficiency to the hiring process and drastically reducing time-to-hire. Job seekers receive customized employment opportunities that match their experience, which they can apply to with a single click.

Clothbound is a job search, recruiting, and workforce development platform for the most important industry in America - the restaurant industry. The restaurant industry? Yes! Here’s why... Digitization, globalization, and urbanization all contribute to the industry becoming one the largest and most durable employment engines in the country. We can’t eat megabytes of data or go out to eat online, and it’s hard to offshore, outsource or automate restaurant work. Amazon’s rise means traditional ground floor retail is being replaced by restaurants with increased frequency. Data to back this up shows 10% of employable people in the US work in the industry. Restaurants now account for 50% of every food dollar spent. 2015 will be the first year restaurant spending exceeds grocery spending. We’ve built a 2-sided, mobile marketplace where restaurants can directly access, search, and recruit candidates. Candidates can create professional profiles, view jobs, assess quality of employers, interact with hirers, and apply for positions or be recruited by our restaurants through the platform. Successful restaurant employment and hiring prioritizes personality and soft skill before experience and technical ability. We inverted the traditional resume to create candidate profiles focusing on personality, interest, and preferred work environment followed by work experience and education. Restaurants in turn answer what is compelling about working for them before adding key information about position, location, etc. We’ve then built an intuitive system to power automated matching of candidates and employers. Clothbound users can tell the app exactly what they are looking for in their next job/employee, instantly view the results, take their desired action, and save the search to receive automatic updates as new matches become available. For restaurants, Clothbound reduces the time and cost to hire, and leads to better job fit and reduced turnover. For candidates, Clothbound provides a simple, yet powerful tool for finding the right restaurant job and getting hired.

Bookity specializes in group reservation software tailored for museums, historic sites, and various attractions. The platform aims to enhance the booking experience by fostering connections between reservation staff and visitors. By streamlining the reservation process, Bookity enables these institutions to manage group bookings more efficiently, allowing them to focus on visitor engagement rather than administrative tasks.

SixPlus is an online platform that simplifies the process of finding and booking private and semi-private venues for group events, catering to corporate event planners and individuals. The service allows users to browse a selection of venues, manage bookings, contracts, and communication in one convenient location. Clients can utilize SixPlus for a variety of gatherings, including board dinners, team lunches, and holiday parties, across major cities such as New York, Washington DC, Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Chicago. By facilitating reservations for groups of six or more, SixPlus streamlines the event planning process, making it easier for users to build proposals and secure the ideal venue for their needs.

TableZest introduces dynamic pricing to the restaurant industry (i.e. minimum spend required on highly sought-after tables). In doing so, they offer Their paying members last-minute premium reservations on peak nights. On off-peak nights, they help fill spare capacity by providing dining perks to members (i.e. incentives to visit the restaurant). They handpick each restaurant creating a curated marketplace that celebrates restaurant success. they are a win-win for both restaurants goers and owners alike.

Sabi is the first ever fast-casual concept to provide fully customizable, restaurant quality.

HOT provides veterans with an opportunity to save money while helping other veterans.Proceeds from the sale of HOT discount cards is donated to the HOT Foundation.HOT business members increase their sales by offring discounts to veterans.Branded as a HOT member, businesses will be recognized by HOT card members and also by the public at large as being "veteran friendly.HOT Inc. is a for profit company with a non-profit affiliate.