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36 online travel Startups View all

Glamping Hub - consumer internet online travel online reservations adventure travel

Glamping Hub

Leading Reservation Platform for Luxury Camping Accommodations
Glamping Hub is the leading portal to luxury camping destinations around the world. Created by an international team of travel aficionados and tech experts, GlampingHub.com features the most unforgettable 'glamping sites' that our team has discovered across the ...

Peek - SaaS online travel marketplaces travel & tourism

Peek

Discover and book the best activities. peek.com/joinpeek
We know that an unforgettable trip is built on the special experiences you share with friends and family. Yet these activities are often difficult to find and even more challenging to book. Peek.com is changing this. We carefully curate our offering of high-quality ...

Headout - online travel mobile commerce marketplaces ticketing

Headout

HotelTonight for Tours & Travel Experiences
Headout is an on-demand mobile marketplace that helps travelers discover & book the most incredible tours, activities, events & local experiences in town for the next 24 hours at incredible prices. All it takes is 3 taps and 60 seconds. We combine the convenience ...

Tripping.com - digital media online travel marketplaces e commerce platforms

Tripping.com

Tripping is the #1 search engine for vacation home rentals. Think: Kayak for Airbnb
Tripping is the #1 search engine for vacation rentals. With over 2 million rentals in 100,000 cities, we give travelers the widest selection of unique accommodations around the world. Based in San Francisco, Tripping was founded by tech industry veterans from Expedia, ...

Beyond Pricing - online travel big data vacation rentals sharing economy

Beyond Pricing

Dynamic Pricing for Vacation Rentals
Beyond Pricing is a SaaS product to help owners in the $85B vacation rental and homesharing market maximize revenue from their homes with data-driven dynamic pricing. Our goal is to become the main platform for managing revenue and acquiring bookings for the 3 ...

FLYR - online travel machine learning big data finance technology

FLYR

Enabling the Future of Travel
The process of booking airfares has previously meant confusion, uncertainty, and hassle. That all ends with FLYR. While many can tell you what already happened, FLYR tells you what will happen. We forecast future fare volatility through complex data analysis, helping ...

Trazzler - online travel

Trazzler

This open network of publication-quality information about places is created by writers and photographers around the world, and is available free to nonprofits. SaaS The most powerful iPhone and Android platform for destinations. Designed from the ground up to ...

Airbnb - online travel peer-to-peer marketplaces hotels

Airbnb

Discover amazing places to stay—or rent out your own!

AnyRoad - online travel marketplaces travel & tourism collaborative consumption

AnyRoad

Modernizing commerce in the tourism industry
AnyRoad is revolutionizing travel by combining proven strategies (long-tail supply aggregation) with cutting-edge mobile capabilities (on-demand capacity utilization) with delightful consumer UX. We're doing to the tourism industry what OpenTable did to restaurants. ...

SnappyGo - online travel social commerce crowdsourcing travel

SnappyGo

A new way to plan your trips and the best travel advice for your vacation
A new online marketplace where travelers tell their travel preferences by filling an online form and we use our state-of-the-art algorithm to match them with Travel Advisors with similar travel interests and sufficient knowledge to provide the traveler with relevant ...

Traveling Spoon - food and beverages online travel travel & tourism collaborative consumption

Traveling Spoon

Authentic home dining experiences for travelers around the world
Traveling Spoon is changing the future of travel by connecting travelers with authentic food experiences in people's homes around the world through a vetted, online marketplace. Our hosts are all pre-vetted by a Traveling Spoon team member to ensure a quality experience ...

CruiseWise - consumer internet online travel social travel travel

CruiseWise

Cruise Search Simplified
CruiseWise is a category killer in the last untouched travel vertical. Our mission is to radically simplify the process of searching, comparing, and booking cruises online. Think "Kayak.com" for cruises. Cruise is the fastest growing industry ($30B) in the travel ...

Jauntful - mobile online travel private social networking social travel

Jauntful

Shareable, printable guides to the cities you love.
When we travel for vacation or business, we’re all striving to have the perfect trip - best hotel, restaurants, sights, etc. and when people visit our current city, hometown, or somewhere we know well, we want them to have the best time ever. All of this hinges ...

LoungeBuddy - online travel social travel travel travel & tourism

LoungeBuddy

Discover and access your airport oasis
LoungeBuddy is all you need to make the most of your time at airports worldwide. Similar to what Uber has done for booking a car, LoungeBuddy creates a better airport experience for travelers by making an airport oasis more accessible with just a few short taps. Consumers ...

Seamless Planet - SaaS B2B online travel travel & tourism

Seamless Planet

Global Distribution & Channel Managment System for Experiences & Activities
Seamless Planet is a Big Data Company that serves the world’s largest inventory of experiences and activities, and provides the ability to exchange inventory and booking information in real-time. Activity inventory is stored in our centralized Global Distribution ...

Assist - online travel local social travel travel

Assist

Message instantly with a friendly local.
Instantly message a local expert. Discover where to go, where to eat, where to drink, what to see. Live like a local. iPhone and Android beta launching in SF soon, join the waitlist to get in first.

PointsHound - e-commerce online travel loyalty programs hotels

PointsHound

Online Booking Service for Frequent Flyer Junkies
PointsHound is a loyalty points-centric booking engine for frequent travelers. Once members join the community, they earn lots of points/Miles by booking hotel rooms (and later, other products) on the site. PointsHound launched with United MileagePlus & Delta SkyMiles ...

Tripshare - online travel social travel travel

Tripshare

Tools to create and share draft itineraries.
Tripshare is the first travel planning app to let users create bookable itineraries with actual dates, prices and availability for flights, hotels, vacation rentals and tours. Tripshare trips are more than wish lists. They are real, and they are actionable. The ...

BidAway - online travel online auctions entertainment industry travel & tourism

BidAway

Bookings of awesome experiences in real-time online auctions and direct sales
Through real-time online auctions, BidAway matches the excess capacity of luxury service providers with discerning customers. BidAway is the new industry outlet for releasing unsold inventory in luxury leisure but not only... we also allow our club members to bid ...

Dealbase - online travel

Dealbase

Consider this: 1. The vast majority of consumers list “value for money” as their top consideration when making a travel purchase 2. Because getting the best value for money is a top priority, people are spending an increasing amount of time shopping for travel ...

OLSET - online travel big data software personalization

OLSET

OLSET - Personalized Travel Booking
OLSET ("All-Set") is a big data travel company dedicated to disrupting the multi-billion dollar travel industry by personalizing and automating travel bookings like never before. Our patented technologies enable any travel booking site, agency or app provider to ...

WePlann - online travel marketplaces Latin America Brazil

WePlann

WePlann - The Easiest Way for the LatAm Tourist to Discover & Book Vacation Activities
WePlann is the easiest way for the Latin American tourist to discover & book vacation activities, disrupting the traditionally offline, highly fragmented $10 Billion Latin American leisure activities market (shows, attractions, tours). WePlann is growing 300% ...

Mozio - search online travel transportation social travel

Mozio

ITA Software for Local Ground Transportation
Mozio is ITA Software for local ground transportation. We are building the backbone of local ground transportation, integrating into the backend systems of limousines, shuttles, taxis, rideshare and express trains to start, eventually moving into the $400 billion ...

MyVR - real estate online travel vacation rentals collaborative consumption

MyVR

Open platform for the vacation rental industry (YC W12)
Vision: Create the open platform for the vacation rental industry. Mission Statement: Deliver the most powerful and user-friendly management and distribution software for owners and managers within the $100B+ vacation rental industry. 'X for Y': The OpenTable ...

Guesty - online travel property management

Guesty

Automated property management for vacation rentals
Property management in the cloud for vacation rentals Managing your vacation rental is a lot of work. We build SaaS solution which takes care of all the hassle for you. You sign up and forget about it. Check us out : www.guesty.com This is not just for Airbnb ...

TouristEye - mobile online travel apps social travel

TouristEye

Travel planning made simple (500 Startups Batch 5)
TouristEye is a Travel App that makes travel-planning super easy. Travelers organize their trips using wishlists and every wish is a purchase intention we use to send personalized offers. Our travelers have collected over 4 million wishes and they add 300,000 ...

Book A Boat - mobile online travel transportation boating industry

Book A Boat

Uber for boats!
Problem: No simple way to book local boats. Travelers are looking for the fastest way to connect with islands and beautiful local places and spend to much time and money looking for the boat transportation. Solution: Book A Boat is mobile and web app that gives ...

Skyara - e-commerce online travel marketplaces social commerce

Skyara

Marketplace for things to do
Skyara is a marketplace for fun things to do, where individuals can share their hobbies and interests as bookable experiences for others. An experience is a personalized activity or service such as a biking tour, photography lessons, or lunch at a tech incubator. ...

Guidekick - mobile digital media education online travel

Guidekick

Immersive 3D guides for major sites and historical attractions
Guidekick is the singular mobile guide for every major city site and attraction addressing a $37B market. Our App provides immersive 3D guides for each location and changes the way people plan, visit, and remember their trips. We are replacing massive static guidebooks, ...

Bucket by Enchanted Labs - online travel events web tools

Bucket by Enchanted Labs

Travel Startup. Ex-FB Co-founders.
Co-founded by two ex-Facebookers, Bucket (likebucket.com), created by Enchanted Labs, helps you collect all your trip ideas in one place from any text source (online or friends), decide, and go. You can: * Collect trip ideas from anywhere, online (Frommer’s, ...

myTab - online travel facebook applications social travel gift card

myTab

The more you save & fundraise cash for travels, we negotiate exclusive deals.
myTab.co (www.mytab.travel) is a travel gift card. Save travel cash & shout 'put it on myTab' so friends & family contribute towards your dream trip. Then simply redeem the funds from thousands of flights and hotels, all within myTab. MAking for a happier pre travel ...

Tripstr - social media online travel photo sharing social travel

Tripstr

Instagram meets TripAdvisor
Photos inspire travel. They inspire us to see more of our world, and help us learn about places we never knew existed. Tripstr 2.0 (in private beta) is the easiest way to discover where you'll go on your next trip, by browsing beautiful photographs. Think 'Instagram ...

Travelnuts - enterprise software e-commerce online travel mobile commerce

Travelnuts

Comprehensive m-commerce suite for hotel owners to offer extras to their guests
Travelnuts maximizes hotels’ revenues by enabling them to upsell ancillary products and services - such as local activities, dining, shows, transportation, etc. - directly to their guests. Based on a proprietary, mobile-compatible e-commerce platform, Travelnuts’ ...

OutTrippin - online travel marketplaces crowdsourcing bridging online and offline

OutTrippin

Expert travel advice, on tap.
OutTrippin helps you plan your perfect trip with personalized recommendations and expert travel advice, on tap. We bring a data-driven yet people-powered approach to personalized travel planning, like a TripAdvisor that's tailored just for you... and not rubbish. ...

misterbnb - online travel social travel rental housing sharing economy

misterbnb

travel accommodations for gay men
misterbnb's 2015 forecast is $4M, 300% increase over 2014 bookings business volume of $1.3M, 900% over 2013. With a community 100,000 strong and 18,000 hosts in over 130 countries misterbnb is the the largest gay hotel brand in the world. misterbnb helps our ...

Rezdy - online travel online reservations software travel & tourism

Rezdy

The GDS for Tours & Activities
Rezdy is the global distribution system connecting booking agencies to complementary tourist attraction businesses. We make reserving "things to do" as easy as purchasing a flight. Rezdy provides POS & inventory management systems to tour operators in 10 countries ...

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