Proving that the online travel industry is a hotbed of
innovation, dozens of entrants chased the chance to pitch
to the audience of judges, senior online travel entrepreneurs, investors, and
travel brands at EyeforTravel's upcoming Startup Awards 2015.
The finalists, who will present their products during
EyeforTravel’s Startup Awards Final at EyeforTravel's inaugural Startup Village in San Francisco, March 23rd have been announced as: -
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Bellhop
Bellhop is a mobile app that acts as a personal
concierge for travelers globally, making all service requests a button
click. They implement this by building a
global community of hotels in which they act as the primary service providers.
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Tripnary
Tripnary is a free iPhone app that lets you check
places off your bucket list. The app lets you create your travel bucket list
and compare airfares to every destination on the list in one tap! Think of it
as Pinterest meets Kayak.
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Spacebase
Spacebase are a global booking platform for event
locations and meeting spaces. We give renters access to unique locations for
their next event and enable space providers to advertise their space to a
ready-to-book user base.
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Africa
Bookings Ltd.
Africa
Bookings offers: -
- a B2C channel for online bookings for
accommodation across Africa for Consumers to get best choice and best rates.
This is almost unheard of in many parts of Africa so we are pioneering here
what is commonplace elsewhere in the world.
- a B2B channel for agents across Africa and worldwide to access our accommodation, make bookings and earn commissions.
Their product offering falls into two categories: a sharing platform and a discovery engine.
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Tripstr
Tripstr 2.0 is Instagram meets TripAdvisor,
answering the question ‘How was your trip?’ through photos, videos and the
actual places you visited. Tripstr is unique in its ability to let you tell
your travel story quickly and beautifully, and in the process turns those
photos into actionable itinerary items that your friends can save for future
trips.
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HelloShift
HelloShift is an exciting new
category of communication software being pioneered by companies like Slack (and
Trello, Yammer etc.) that is not built for use by the shift-based workforce
hotels usually employ. We have packaged the relevant features from these tools
into a simplified interface optimized for the way shift-based businesses work,
and accounting for the various skill levels of the workers.
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Tripcipe
Tripcipe aims to
be the recipe for the perfect trip. Most travelers today consult at least 5
different websites to figure out what to see, eat, or do on their vacation.
Instead of copying and pasting into Excel and Google Maps, you can use the
Tripcipe plug-in to easily save information from any webpage
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Goconnekt
Goconnekt is a
short-term WiFi hotspot rental service for travelers that combines convenience,
quality and affordability. Goconnekt helps
international travelers that want access to on-the-go 4G internet, but would
rather not pay the expensive international data rates.
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PalPrices.com
PalPrices is a fun and unique website with focus
on intelligent tourist budget calculation and planning based on personal
preferences, providing help with choosing your vacation destination. E.g., what
is the cost of a weekend in New York City including nightlife and museums, but
saving money on accommodation?
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Proxce
Proxce helps travelers skip the front desk for
check-in at hotels, Proxce’s Proximity Identity Manager system uses
BLE/iBeacons and geo fence to provide auto check-in and keyless entry to guest
rooms for hospitality industry
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ITeXplorer,
Inc.
ITeXplorer Inc offers a real-time worldwide
marketplace of travel services for travel professionals and consumers. We
enable customers to research, book, price and alter multi-destination
itineraries from any device at any time before and after departure. We see our
target audience as: Travel professionals, consumers, corporate travelers.
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FLYR
FLYR, Inc. is a data science company first
conceived to relieve a universal pain point among travelers — the guessing game of booking airfares. By aggregating and
analyzing billions of data points, FLYR
has created Foresight, a proprietary prediction engine, allowing for ultra -
relevant fare forecasts and providing immediate
benefits to travelers
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Wellobox
Travelers are currently
overloaded with data and recommendations on the "best" places to eat,
see, and explore. Welloboxes offer a solution to this problem by allowing the
traveler to purchase a locally curated box that is waiting for them upon
arrival, freeing them to immediately start exploring.
The final will take place as part of EyeforTravel’s Startup Village which sees top online travel entrepreneurs, mentors and investors share
key insight into what it takes to succeed in the cut throat online travel
industry during morning bootcamp sessions and the Startup final take place in
the afternoon. The day will be
interspersed with plenty of time for networking.
Book your place to attend the final at EyeforTravel’s Startup Village here
For event enquiries contact:
Gina Baillie
GM
EyeforTravel Ltd.
International: +44 (0)207 375 7197
US.Toll Free: 1.800 814 3459 ext. 7197
gina@eyefortravel.com
