Groupe ADP is looking for travel tech startups and the most innovative SMEs to be involved in building the next generation of airport infrastructure, resulting in airports that are both smart and eco-friendly.
Do you have technology and products and services that improve, Passenger Experience, Airport Terminals and Aircraft Services?
If yes, please apply to the Play Your Airport Challenge.
How to take part in this challenge? Just by answering the online questionnaire and sending a brief presentation of your solution before October 9th.
The best startups will be invited to Paris to pitch their project in front of the top management of Groupe ADP, they will benefit from a great visibility in ParisWorldWide magazine and will meet the investment team at Groupe ADP’s innovation hub. The winner of the challenge will get the chance to launch a POC worth €40,000.
To learn more and apply to the challenge go here.
We are pleased to announce that Travel Startups Incubator (TSI) will be presenting “Destination Travel Innovation,” a technology and innovation panel session at the Connect Travel Marketing Leadership Summit, a 3-day destination marketing conference in Orlando, Florida Feb 19-21.
Calling all travel and tourism technology startups.
Do you have breakthrough technology that will impact destination marketers? Destination marketers include Destination Management Companies, (DMO’s), State and City Visitor & Tourism Bureaus, Tour Operators and In-Destination Travel Suppliers.
If yes, please submit the simple form at the bottom of this page to be considered to present at the conference.
“New marketing technology presents tourism marketers with both opportunities and challenges. The Marketing Leadership Summit will connect destination marketers with the products, services, people and ideas, helping them thrive in a rapidly evolving and highly competitive global marketplace. The Summit will feature new trends and technologies that will transform travel and tourism marketing over the next 3-5 years.”
Connect Travel Marketing Leadership Summit Feb 19-21, Hyatt Regency Orlando, Florida.
• 4 startups will have an opportunity to pitch their technology solution to 200+ global executives. Heads of digital and marketing, CMO’s, GM’s, and industry tourism leaders. Get in front of buyers and destination marketers for your technology pilots and commercial agreements.
• 5-7 minute pitch-presentation.
• 15-20 minute panel discussion to follow the presentations including Q&A from the audience.
• Exhibit space in the Innovation demo area during the 3-day conference to demo your technology and meet with travel executive attendees. Note* We will have more details soon regarding the space configuration in the exhibit area and what you can bring to display.
• 2 conference badges to attend the full-conference.
Timeline/Due Dates:
Now thru December 9th: Apply to present.
Dec 10th: Presenter agreements and payments due.
Jan 1st: TSI to announce 4 companies selected to present and attend the conference.
Jan 21st: Pitch deck due along with high-res logo, company summary, detailed bio and contact info.
Feb 2-7: Video presentation and/or live presentation due.
Feb 19th or 20th: Pitch/Presentation day, exact day and time, TBD.
Cost:
Free to submit to pitch.
If your company is selected to present a $995 fee will be charged by TSI.
At TSI, we are excited to be partnering with Connect Travel for this event as Florida is the #1 travel destination in the world and TSI’s home base is here in Central Florida. This is an opportunity for travel tech startup to get their technology in front of USA & International buyers attending the event.
IMPORTANT NOTES:
• This is a business development opportunity for Presenters to promote and pitch a new technology or product to the attendees of the conference, NOT an investor presentation.
• 1 Presenter to pitch per company and to participate in the panel session.
• Presentations should be a combination of:
o Professional education on your new technology entering the destination marketing vertical
o The benefits of your product for destination marketers
o Why they should consider partnering with you to test/pilot the technology and or license/buy your product/technology
o How the technology or product will impact the attendees business now or in the near future.
Presentation Guidelines
• 5-7 minute presentation on stage followed by 15-20 minute moderator/panel discussion with all the 4 presenters.
• Presentation Format TBD
• Presentation must be kept relevant to attendees who are destination marketers, CMO’s, digital marketing managers of DMO’s/Visitor Bureaus, State & City Tourism Bureaus, Tour Operators, Travel Suppliers
TraknProtect a TSI investment portfolio company and Flightsayer a TSI advisory company, will present their cutting edge, travel technology on Sept 12th at the Phocuswright Battleground. 16 travel startups will be presenting to win 2 spots at the Summit pitch session during the Phocuswright Conference November 7-9 in Miami, FL.
TraknProtect is the only IoT platform for the back-of-the-house operations for hotels, offering real-time tracking and alerts throughout the hotel on a single platform. Using Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, TraknProtect enables hotels to leverage a single platform to track inventory (such as cribs, rollaway beds, etc.), alert teams when room service items are left in hallways, manage vendor locations and timesheets, and provide real-time alerts and employee locations when safety buttons are triggered. You can visit TraknProtect at Phocuswright Battleground, Sept 12, Sunnyvale, CA, ILHA’s Inspire Summit Sept 17-19, Miami, FL. Get in touch via sagar@traknprotect.com
Flightsayer predicts flight delays hours to weeks prior to departure, empowering flyers to make more informed booking decisions and to deal more effectively with delays. Flightsayer is working with a number of airlines and TMC’s. You can visit Flightsayer at Phocuswright Battleground, Sept 12, Sunnyvale, CA, BTN Innovate, September 28–29, New York City, and The Beat Live, October 2–5, Frisco, TX. Get in touch via info@flightsayer.com
TSI will not be attending the Battleground as we will be in Germany working with GoVios one of TSI’s newest advisory companies in the cruise industry.
In TSI investment portfolio news:
Adventure Bucket List completed 500 Startups accelerator and is closing a large seed round.
Yana Trip has been accepted into the Chinaccelerator to grow its Chinese inbound travel market.
Biz Airlines has launched JetGDS a booking platform for private jet operators to sell their inventory online with real-time ticketing including an API for global distribution.
FlitWays grew 2nd quarter revenue by over 500%. FlitWays trades publicly (FTWS).
Yappes has launched a travel API marketplace in BETA.
GoHero.ai is piloting a travel chat bot with Amadeus and a large messaging app in Asia.
Airlines Technology has 9 NDC direct connections and has developed a unique, first of its kind global ADAPTER to convert any existing Airlines legacy system messaging standards to NDC.
Calling All Travel Start-ups & Innovators!
EyeforTravel North America 2017 / October 19-20 • Mandalay Bay Las Vegas
Travel Startups Incubator is excited to be the lead moderator and a sponsor of the Start-Up Awards for the EyeforTravel North America 2017 conference in Las Vegas. The North American conference is one of the largest travel technology conferences in the USA.
This will be our 4th year moderating the awards and our 7th year attending the conference. Many of today’s top global travel companies debuted their travel technology and startup to the world at the Start-Up awards. I’ve personally met Sam Shank the CEO of Hotel Tonight, Travis Katz the CEO of Trip.com, TJ Sassani the former CEO of Zozi and Rob Brown the CEO of Options Away all at the conference when they were startups in their first year or two of operations.
Does your travel company have what it takes to succeed in travel? Is your product or app a key weapon in your battle to win and engage travel consumers? New travel technologies will find out as they battle it out as part of EyeforTravel’s Start-Up Travel Awards taking place in Las Vegas on October 19th- 20th, as part of EyeforTravel’s North America 2017 Summit.
It is a great opportunity to meet entrepreneurs, investors and judges comprised of experts from all walks of travel – all of whom are keen to examine which start-up has what it takes to make it in the cut throat travel industry.
What exactly does the Start Up Awards involve?
The Awards winner will receive:
- An exclusive interview on www.eyefortravel.com as well as continued featured contributions.
- The opportunity to present and speak at the North America 2018 Summit.
- Access to EyeforTravel’s content library which includes access to thousands of travel brand cutting edge case studies, videos and reports.
- EyeforTravel has 80,000 contacts worldwide in the global online travel industry and will work to support the winner through their growth and development.
- Heavily discounted passes to future EyeforTravel events worldwide.
- Promotion of your award in a dedicated blog post at TravelStartups.co the leading travel tech startup blog.
Have you got what it takes to be this year’s winner? Visit the website to learn more, and register your place to stand a chance to win!
