This past week Nicole and I attended the Travel Technology Europe conference in London. Have to say that this was one of the best conferences we have ever attended. There must have been three-to-four thousand people there. We setup our booth and founders interview tabletop in the Disrupt area with 10 other travel startups.
The four judges on the startup pitch panel included Tom Day of London & Partners and Traveltech Lab, Toby Tait of Gatwick Airport, Matt Zito of Travel Startups Incubator and Travolution editor Lee Hayhurst.
Tom Day of London & Partners, Toby Tait of Gatwick Airport, Matt Zito of Travel Startups Incubator and Travolution editor Lee Hayhurst. – See more at: http://www.travolution.co.uk/articles/2015/02/27/11772/tte-2015-screen-scrapers-enemy-wins-disrupt-start-up-pitch-contest.html#sthash.ppd5C6ns.dpuf
The judging panel consisted of Tom Day of London & Partners, Toby Tait of Gatwick Airport, Matt Zito of Travel Startups Incubator and Travolution editor Lee Hayhurst. – See more at: http://www.travolution.co.uk/articles/2015/02/27/11772/tte-2015-screen-scrapers-enemy-wins-disrupt-start-up-pitch-contest.html#sthash.ppd5C6ns.dpuf
The judging panel consisted of Tom Day of London & Partners, Toby Tait of Gatwick Airport, Matt Zito of Travel Startups Incubator and Travolution editor Lee Hayhurst. – See more at: http://www.travolution.co.uk/articles/2015/02/27/11772/tte-2015-screen-scrapers-enemy-wins-disrupt-start-up-pitch-contest.html#sthash.ppd5C6ns.dpuf
Data Portcullis a screen scrapping technology startup won the pitch event for having the most disruptive technology. The two runners-up included Upgrade-Digital and Pay by Group. Veedback a video travel review startup based in London our newest investment at Travel Startups Incubator was there as well. We met a lot of travel startups and a few travel companies swung by to introduce themselves. All in all it was a great time and we are looking forward to next year.
Travel Startups Incubator is pleased to announce our investment in Adventure Bucket List (ABL) a business-to-business (B2B) unified reservation management and sales distribution platform for tours and activities. Adventure Bucket List is a travel startup based out of Sunnyvale, California. ABL is lead by co-founders Blake Pridham, Ryan Stobie and Rita LeBlanc. Team members include Kevin Adams, Adrian Bertrand, Phil Burgess, Jordy Norris, Quinn Rochon, and Michael Wu. Adventure Bucket List’s B2B platform provides real-time tour and activity bookings for online and mobile resellers of travel through a network of tour and activity suppliers and provider partners.
Kevin Adams, Blake Pridham, Rita LeBlanc (front), Ryan Stobie, Adrian Bertrand (Back), Phil Burgess (front)
Travel Startups Incubator Managing Partner, Matt Zito says “the tour and activity space is a fast growing global market. The adventure travel industry generated $263B in revenue in 2013, growing 24% annually the last 4 years. In a short period of time ABL’s team has been able to build a B2B platform and successfully onboard over 3,500 activities for sale with distribution from over 50 resellers.”
Adventure Bucket List has a back-end CRM that allows activity and tour companies to facilitate online bookings, manage their customers, track purchasing metrics and update availability/occupancy in real-time. Activity and tour companies can sign up for a free 30-day trial and be using the platform in seconds.
The sales and distribution platform includes an API designed to allow larger travel sites to integrate activities and tours into any part of their website. We are looking for media websites, airlines, hotels, accommodation websites and high-traffic travel industry related websites. The white-label widgets designed for smaller websites are dynamically broken down to 2 lines of code to allow for fast and seamless integration into any travel site.
Contacts:
Blake Pridham, Co-Founder & COO
email: blake@adventurebucketlist.com
Ryan Stobie, Co-Founder & CEO
email: ryan@adventurebucketlist.com
web: www.adventurebucketlist.com
phone: 1 (530) 933-3881
CB Insights one of the leading corporate data intelligence companies has released their 2014 Global Tech Exits Report on global tech exits. In 2014 the travel industry was a leading industry in exit growth in % change from 2011/2012-to-2013/2014.
The top 4 industries by exit growth:
Health & Wellness 181%
Data Storage & Security 167%
Customer Relationship Management 148%
Travel 106%
If you want to build a company and have a great chance of exiting, the travel industry is one of the best in the world with mobile leading the charge.
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In this interview you’ll learn:
- How Drew Meyers is building Horizon into a private trusted network of friends for places to stay while traveling.
- His experience at Startup Chile an incubator/accelerator.
- How he is adding a donation model to the product to spur growth among the apps users.
Travel Startups Incubator is pleased to announce our investment in Trveler a subscription-based spontaneous travel and adventure startup for millennial travelers. Trveler is lead by co-founders Pablo Chavez, George Haskell and Krista Scimeca.
Trveler is currently in product development.
Trveler Founders George Haskell, Pablo Chavez with Matt Zito
Matt Zito, managing partner at Travel Startups Incubator, says “Pablo Chavez has created a unique one-of-a-kind travel product for millennial travelers. Millennial travelers are a huge and growing market in the travel industry that the old guard are not servicing well. Millennial travelers want personalization, customization and a sense of spontaneous adventure in their travels. Trveler at its core sets out to meet all three of these needs.”
Trveler works like this. You signup and join by making your first monthly payment of $149. You create a Trveler profile which includes destinations you are interested in traveling to and the dates during your subscription period that you want to travel. Your travel budget is fixed so each month you know you’ll pay $149 to travel 4 times a year. You don’t know exactly where you are going but you know you are traveling. Each trip includes a 2 Night/3 Day vacation package including RT Air, Hotel and Trveler extras and bonuses that will be included in your travel package.
As you go through the subscription period, you build your vacation package from options and choices that are delivered to you in a curated format via email. You’ll choose a departure and return date, a destination, a RT air ticket and a hotel. After your selections are made you’ll travel every 90-days.
Trveler is modeled after the subscription in a box trend that is sweeping through the USA. Instead of receiving products in the mail each month you’ll receive travel options via email enabling you to customize your trip and travel spontaneously 4 times a year.
Contacts:
Pablo Chavez
pchavez@trveler.com
Phone: 1-888-510-1154
Website: http://www.trveler.com
Nicole Zito, Managing Partner Travel Startups Incubator
