Travel & Hospitality Startups

The Ritz-Carlton operates luxury hotels worldwide, creating high-end hospitality experiences and fostering memorable guest journeys across global destinations.

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Road.Travel provides a web and mobile application that helps drivers discover curated roads and travel spots, with integration to vehicle navigation systems.

1 investor

Roadtrippers is a mobile platform that helps users plan road trips by discovering interesting locations, booking accommodations, and navigating routes across the United States, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia. The app integrates trip planning, accommodation search, and navigation into a single service for leisure travelers.

1 investor

Roady is a New Zealand travel content and media company that helps travellers discover activities and plan road trips. Its app offers a map of over 2,500 experiences with photos, local tips, and gamified badges, covering New Zealand and Australia.

1 investor

Roam operated co-living and remote-work hospitality spaces across multiple cities on three continents, offering shared housing for travelers and digital nomads. The company is pausing operations to convert the concept into a broadly owned real-estate company.

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RoamBook is an AI-powered platform that helps families organize and plan trips by automating logistics like research, routing, and itinerary creation. The platform integrates with any AI assistant and lets users focus on the experience rather than spreadsheets and coordination details.

1 investor

Roame is a flight and hotel search engine that helps travelers find and redeem premium accommodations and flights using airline and hotel loyalty points and miles.

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RoboSize automates repetitive hotel operations using digital co-workers that integrate with existing systems. The company targets hotel management teams seeking to eliminate manual work while maintaining full visibility and control over automations through a centralized dashboard.

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A Czech mountain resort developer offering apartment residences in the Krkonoše region designed for sports and leisure living. The company builds three-apartment residential complexes with wellness facilities, ski storage, and access to mountain activities.

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Ronic builds websites for travel agencies, generating a site from a voice note and letting owners edit it through an AI tool; sites include SEO-ready pages, enquiry routing to messaging apps, and optional flight and hotel booking via supplier APIs. It offers a self-serve product at a monthly fee and a custom design service with one-on-one calls.

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Room Mate Hotels operates a chain of design hotels located in city centers, aimed at modern travelers seeking a distinctive stay. It positions itself in the hospitality and travel industry with an emphasis on central urban locations.

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Roomblocker offered a hotel booking service for groups and events, operating as a B2B travel marketplace.

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Roomex is a business travel management platform that helps companies book, manage, and analyze workforce travel accommodation and expenses in one place. It serves mobile workforces carrying out project-based travel, particularly in industries like retail, construction, and utilities.

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Roomiy pre-purchases hotel room nights in bulk through private B2B wholesale channels and pays hotel owners upfront in monthly advances, giving them predictable cash flow without taking on debt. It serves hotel owners and operators, charging a flat SaaS fee instead of the commissions typical of OTAs.

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Roomstorm operates a real-time B2B hotel room marketplace, with an automated platform that connects airlines to global hotel inventory to provide accommodations to passengers stranded by flight disruptions. It also offers airline teams a web portal for rapidly processing affected passengers.

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Roomza is a hotel booking platform that lets members reserve specific rooms by number at select US hotels, with prices matching or beating the hotel's own rate and a guarantee that pays the guest if a stay disappoints. It also runs a program where users can earn money when others book the exact room they stayed in.

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Roovook (루북) is a South Korean online platform for searching hotel event spaces and group accommodations, offering over 1,916 event venues across the country and connecting users directly with hotel staff for free, commission-free quotes. It serves organizers of workshops, seminars, team retreats, and group business trips, and includes an AI concierge to help find venues and rooms.

1 investor

Rosewood Hotels operates a collection of luxury hotels and resorts across international destinations including Mexico, Japan, Qatar, Brazil, the US, Hong Kong, the UK, and the Netherlands. The brand offers hospitality and vacation stays at properties such as Las Ventanas al Paraiso, Rosewood London, and The Carlyle.

1 investor

RoverPass is an online marketplace and booking platform for RV parks and campgrounds, letting RVers search, reserve, and pay for spots. It also offers reservation software for campground owners to manage listings and receive bookings.

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Royal Palm South Beach is a hotel in Miami Beach offering guest rooms, a redesigned pool and bar, and poolside dining. The property positions itself as a social gathering place reflecting the South Beach scene.

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Run Africa offers altitude fitness and adventure experiences in Ethiopia for outdoor enthusiasts of all ability levels. It operates as a one-stop provider in the sports and outdoor activity category.

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Runnr.ai provides an AI-powered guest communication tool for hotels, holiday parks, and other accommodations, handling repetitive guest questions and requests across WhatsApp, OTA inboxes, SMS, voice, and email. The platform integrates with property management systems to answer property-specific queries, trigger upsells, send check-in and payment links, issue mobile keys, and create housekeeping requests.

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RVshare is an online marketplace connecting RV owners who want to rent out their vehicles with travelers looking to rent an RV. Founded in 2013, it operates as a peer-to-peer RV rental community.

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RYSE Hotel is a hotel offering guest rooms and themed accommodations, including a music-focused "Artist Suite" created with Manhattan Records Seoul. It positions itself around the intersection of art, music, and travel, based in Seoul, South Korea.

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