Meet the 10 most disruptive startups chosen to pitch at the Future of Travel Summit on Feb 12th. Coming from all over the globe, these startups are shaking up the industry.
Axle Travel (NY, US) provides door-to-door ground transportation for long-distance travel. Axle works with bus companies to ensure the fastest, safest, most affordable and enjoyable trip possible.
Daycation App (FL, US) allows users to book day-by-day access to various hotel amenities, such as the pool or spa, starting at $25 a day. Daycation allows for membership as well as individual day pass purchases.
Hotel Online (Kenya) is cloud-based reservations management and marketing system to help smaller hotels access more than 100 online sales and marketing channels.
Porter and Sail (NY, US) provides guest services technology to boutique and luxury hotel properties. These services include e-commerce platforms, guest-facing front-end mobile applications (iOS and Android), back-end operational dashboards, and industry-first analytics and data insights.
PurpleCloud Technologies (Philadelphia, US) offers a suite of mobile software products primarily for the hospitality industry. Their mobile software “Cielo” comprises of housekeeping, management, engineering and front office modules, and provides the fastest access to room status and guest information possible.
RentingCarz (FL, US) allows residents from Latin America and the Caribbean to compare all major car rental brands and get the lowest price when renting a car anywhere in the world.
SIMPLENIGHT (US) enables any company to provide a one-stop-shopping experience to search and book everything there is to do in any city. SIMPLENIGHT acts as a merchant of record and takes a commission on all inventory sold, pays transaction fees and shares the net revenue with the distribution partner.
Sound Walkrs (Colombia) is a smartphone app that allows users to discover a new city through a series of GPS-guided, audio walks led by fictionalized versions of historical figures from a city’s past. Users can create and share their own personalized maps and find and bookmark exciting things to do within the city.
Viajala (Colombia) enables LATAM travelers to search dozens of travel sites at once, including local online travel agencies and airlines that cannot be found elsewhere. Viajala gives travel brands the opportunity to distribute and advertise their offers in front of a premium audience of LATAM travelers.
VoyHoy (Chile) is an online booking platform that allows users to compare and buy plane, bus, ferry, and train tickets throughout Latin America. VoyHoy offers simple and secure means to acquiring the best deal among thousands of travel tickets.
Can’t wait to see who wins the First Place Prize! If you attend, you can also help make dreams happen. The startup with the most votes wins the People’s Choice prize, which also helps catapult their business to the next level. Watch and participate in the competition at futureoftravel.miami