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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.

SOLO operates a mobile application that offers guides and information on travelling solo. It provides inspiration and itineraries for one person on visiting various places. SOLO was founded in 2021.

We use advanced AI, algorithms and machine learning to evaluate thousands of variables, check different routes and online resources in real time in order to provide travel agents with the best itineraries that meet consumers needs and expectations.

Travaxy tailors a travel and booking platform specifically for people with disabilities or general mobility issues, as well as those 65 and older who require assistance. It designs the platform to recognize travelers needing additional assistance during the booking process, at which time it can offer them additional services as well as information about accessible attractions, concerts, and venues at their destination.

Access Travels is an inclusive community-based travel platform and solution enabling physically disabled persons to overcome the barriers of access to global travel.

Dunyha is transforming the hospitality experience by creating an ecosystem that empowers real estate ownership.

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.

CityGuyd combines new advancements in Augmented Reality to provide travelers with a more exciting tour guide experience. No more expensive personal tour guides, no more rigid schedules, and no more bulky travel books. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

travelEZ a TripAdvisor-like service that connects people with accessible places. TravelEZ is proving itself to be a venture capable of improving the status quo. TravelEZ removes the guesswork and hassle of planning by crowdsourcing, gathering, and organizing accessibility information. TravelEZ will initially provide accessibility reviews for over 1,500 restaurants, bars, and cafes. Each accessibility review includes pictures, checklists, and comments on features like entrances, spaciousness, and restrooms.

Austin-based Captain Experiences makes booking outdoor sports trips quick and easy. Focused first on fishing, our mission is to unlock the outdoors for everyone, and we do it through our no-hassle booking experience online, and our Damn Good Guides in the field. Whether it’s fly fishing Montana’s backcountry, chasing blue marlin out of Kona, Hawaii, or stalking tailing redfish in our Texas homewaters, if you can dream it, you can do it in just a few quick clicks with Captain. Leading investors including Andrew Chen at a16z, Goodwater, Not Boring, and Looking Glass back us in making our passion our profession and we hope you'll join us.

Rutopia is a social enterprise that connects travelers with rural communities to gain authentic, off-the-beaten-path experiences. They assist protectors in generating sustainable income through regenerative tourism. They provide tourism and adventure activities in idyllic locations, from multi-day treks to quiet walks along beaches, forests, deserts, and jungles. They also help travelers learn about ancestral and traditional techniques from various cultures, such as wood carving, artisanal fishing, and making jewelry.

Jamber operates as a travel web-design agency.

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.

SeeVoov is the first and only end-to-end video based travel planning platform, offering a unique visual-based approach to digital travel. The company aims to change the way people all around the world address their trip experiences, from planning, through executing, to post-trip sharing. SeeVoov offers a social, interactive, video based trip planner, enabling people with the opportunity to start enjoying their trip experience right from the planning process. Our offering encompasses both a user facing end-to-end interface (B2C), as well as unique B2B cooperation with airlines, cruise-lines, OTA's, and TV broadcast networks, integrating the platform (white labeled) into their own business offering (website, apps, on-board screes, smart TV's). This enables such partners to expand their product & service offering, enhancing customer engagement & loyalty, providing valuable user data and additional revenue streams. SeeVoov is changing the entire perception of the planning cycle from a lonely, tedious task, into a fun, exciting and time effective activity one can do together with family and friends!

TripAfrique is the only pan-African platform specializing in travel to and within Africa by means of transport combining bus, train, plane, ferry and accommodation. After the major innovation of mobile money in Africa, TripAfrique has introduced an innovation of use for both African local travelers and also in the modernization of the technical infrastructure of transport companies. Created in 2016, its rapid growth has already allowed it to move from a covered country to more than a dozen today. The selection of the startup at HEC's incubation program at Station F, the largest incubator in the world, and its recognition by the MyAfricanStartUp ranking - sponsored by the African Development Bank (AfDB), the American firm of Orrick lawyers, HEC Paris, AIR France, ECP, CFAO - among the 100 African startups where to invest in 2017 open up real prospects for growth. Driven by passionate entrepreneurs from Africa, TripAfrique has a team of 13 people in Europe and Africa, covering more than 500 transport lines daily. The spirit of initiative, responsibility and innovation is most cultivated within this team on a human scale.

Walkli brings together the experiences of locals, travel professionals, and fellow travelers onto a single platform to help people plan what to do and where to go once they arrive at their travel destinations. Our social approach to planning urban exploration is bringing sightseeing into the 21st century.

Penguino Travel is redesigning the travel experience to give parents the confidence to explore the world with their kids. When traveling with kids, parents face challenges from planning and packing to getting there and making the most of the experience. To feel confident, parents need detailed information about family-friendly hotels, restaurants, activities and more. The time and cost to put together life-changing travel experiences is high. Penguino is a peer-to-peer platform that connects families who want to travel to a new place with families who live there. Our platform enables local families to curate their favorite places and create recommendations. Parents who plan a trip with Penguino get a personalized itinerary with all the information they need to feel confident taking kids on an adventure. The platform includes an online store where parents can shop for travel gear, activities and essentials. The Penguino Travel platform saves families time and money while enabling them to travel the way they want to.

Reventals Event Rentals is a party supply and rental shop. Their rental products are tables: round tables, square tables, rectangle tables, specialty and picnic tables, cocktail tables, and chairs. folding chairs, conference chairs, luxury and chiavari chairs, barstools, benches, and other chairs Tents, professionally installed tents, self-installed canopies, tent accessories, gazebos, chuppahs, bars, and glassware.

Trueke is a different way of traveling, the traveler can get involved with the community and learn from it, acquiring new experiences and knowledge.

Travelling to an event is not easy for event visitors. They need to search event details, airports and train stations manually and make multiple online booking processes for different means of transportations and accommodations. This leads to repeating actions like typing in and comparing data. This problem exists, because there is no easy way for event organizers to integrate travel services for their event visitors to help them plan their trip. If event organizers want to integrate services they have to individually contact, discuss with and technically integrate several players, like Lufthansa, local hotels, train supplier and more. Event organizers register their event on Travis within minutes and receive a link that they can integrate into their website. The event visitors click on the link and are forwarded to the booking process on the Travis website for that event. They only need to provide their address and Travis searches for the best airports and train stations as well as the best flight and train connections, because Travis already knows when and where the event visitor would like to travel to. The search results can be personalised before choosing the preferred flights, train connections and hotels. In the last step event visitors can book them directly on the Travis website by only checking out once.

Spectando offers a novel and scalable solution to create virtual property tours easily and quickly with just a smartphone. Unlike other virtual tour solutions, their approach does not required any hardware components. This makes the proven concept of virtual tours scalable and accessible to the large market of private users. Their strategy to approach the large market of private users quickly and effectively is via partnerships with established real estate online platforms. These can increase their revenue by offering their virtual tour solution e.g. in a premium package to their users, while the profit is shared.

bitemojo is an e-commerce application providing couples and small groups the opportunity to experience destinations through their local cuisine by taking self-guided culinary biteTours. In addition to the tasting, biteTours encourage interaction with the local people behind the bites and learn about their personal background. During the tour travelers can gain biteCredits and turn them to free bites as part of the experience.

Vieni is a web platform and mobile app that allows users to group their travel demand together before going to market. For example, if a group is travelling to a festival they can join others from their local area and 'group buy' a charter coach. This means the coach comes to them and takes them to their precise final destination thus reducing their overall cost and time whilst having a positive effect on the environment. From the enterprise perspective the tool also allows coach operators to signal their availability and pick up demand in what would otherwise be an empty vehicle. For example, once I have dropped off a group and have to return to the depot that is essentially a wasted journey/cost to the operator. Vieni's dynamic algorithm driven software can fill the vehicle and minimise losses to the company.

Plum Guide is not just a booking platform. It's a benchmark for quality. There are 15,000,000+ vacation homes listed online. The choice is overwhelming. The standard is dispiriting. So we created the Plum Guide Award. Our mission is to find and award the best homes out there with our trusted quality mark.

Run Tour allows the active business traveler a chance to sight-see without thinking or planning ahead. An unexpected hour to spare can become a historical run past Big Ben. At any time a user can tailor a route for a specific distance or popular landmark & then use the GPS guided tour to eliminate the risk of getting lost.

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.

TimeLooper is a pioneering Interpretive Experience Design firm committed to enriching the interaction between cultural institutions and the modern visitor. Through the innovative application of cutting-edge technologies - including geographic information systems (GIS) mapping, holographic imaging, and 3D scanning - TimeLooper assists in the creation of stunning, unforgettable Virtual and Augmented Reality-based immersive learning experiences.

Alike is a company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, focused on creating innovative solutions for social networking and travel. It has developed a wearable device designed to enhance face-to-face interactions by enabling users to discover and connect with new friends who share common interests, eliminating the distractions of digital screens. Additionally, Alike.io serves as a platform that empowers independent content creators to design and monetize travel itineraries. Launched in collaboration with Dubai Tourism, this creator economy-based platform simplifies the process of sharing and booking travel experiences. It provides users with a no-code interface to publish their travel stories, allowing them to incorporate various content formats such as photos and videos. With partnerships spanning over 12,000 suppliers across 200 destinations, Alike.io facilitates access to a wide array of bookable travel services, enabling creators to generate recurring revenue by publishing trip plans that can be monetized.

Bookity is the only group reservation software designed specifically for museums, historic sites, and other attractions. We created it to help you build friendly connections between your reservation desk and your visitors. Stop managing and start collaborating. It’s time to book it with Bookity.

Latitude six-six is an authentic, Native-owned adventure travel company that immerses intrepid travelers in a beautiful yet remote land while engaging with its Native people. They want travelers to understand Alaskan culture and experience this majestic part of the world. They operate trips in Northeast Alaska in the summer and winter, offering unparalleled access to this beautiful, largely inaccessible part of the world while creating positive, sustainable econ. opportunities for its Native People.

Tripzon is a packaging and booking platform that helps its users plan and book complex tours. The platform offers multiple destinations, component filtering, trip design services, and a single transaction checkout. It provides a smart itinerary system for flights, hotels, activities, cars, transfers, and other travel components. Tripzon was launched in 2008 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Wanderu is a developer of a travel meta-search engine used to book inter-city buses and trains. It is the ground travel middle layer technology and multi-modal travel search in North America, with the mission of standardizing and centralizing bus, train, and ferry travel data to provide the most efficient travel planning and booking experience for its customers.

Citybot Inc. provides a mobile application that allows users (tourists and locals) to create self-guided tours and itineraries.

SkinnyTrip makes companies more profitable by giving employees incentives to spend less money on business travel. Employees are given points when they select flights, hotels, and rental cars that lower expenses. The points can be exchanged for thousands of different prizes, including name brand merchandise and vacation packages. Lower costs. Happier employees. SkinnyTrip.

Abroad101 is the first and largest study abroad reviews website. Their website provides a free online evaluation system that helps universities collect evaluations online, and helps study abroad programs more easily recruit students and helps parents become comfortable and sets their expectations for the time abroad. Prospective study abroad students can read through 27,000+ detailed reviews on various programs throughout the world. Program Providers can take advantage of the large student audience by advertising their programs on their site. Was founded in 2007, sold to an investor group in 2013 and is headquartered in NYC.