Travel & Hospitality Startups

Virgin Experience Days is an online marketplace offering curated luxury and heritage steam train experiences across the United Kingdom, featuring dining packages, afternoon tea, and themed trips on heritage railways.

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Virgin Galactic operates suborbital spaceflights, offering astronaut journeys for private passengers as well as access for scientists and researchers to conduct experiments in suborbital space. It positions itself as a provider of human spaceflight and a suborbital space lab for research.

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Hutchinson is a tourism destination website for the city of Hutchinson, Kansas, promoting local attractions such as the Cosmosphere space museum, a working salt mine tour, water parks, a zoo, and outdoor recreation. It serves visitors and families planning trips to the area, functioning as a travel and tourism guide.

1 investor

Visit Pasadena, Texas is the destination marketing organization for Pasadena, Texas, promoting travel and tourism to support local business growth and economic vitality.

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Visiting Media offers a sales platform for hotel and property sales teams that uses immersive visual content to present properties remotely, helping sales managers respond to RFPs and win business. It includes TrueTour, a property content collection, and custom tours built for specific clients.

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Vista operates a vertically-integrated technology platform providing end-to-end business aviation services, focused on high-net-worth clients. The company serves an international market with a presence in major cities worldwide.

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Vivido is an online travel service that bundles flights, accommodation, and experience-based activities into packaged "experience trips" that customers can book online. It targets German-speaking leisure travelers looking to combine a trip with curated bucket-list experiences.

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Vola.ro is an online travel agency that aggregates and sells airline tickets (low-cost and full-service carriers) alongside hotel bookings, vacation packages, car rentals, airport transfers, and travel insurance. It serves individual travelers as well as corporate clients through a dedicated business division, with a focus on the Romanian market.

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Infotopics develops software extensions for business intelligence platforms like Tableau and Power BI that transform static visualizations into interactive decision-making tools. The company serves large organizations across multiple functions worldwide.

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WAH Holidays runs an online travel search and booking site for Indian consumers. Travelers can look up and reserve flights, hotels and packaged trips, including honeymoon travel, family vacations, weekend getaways and lesser-known destinations.

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Careers and employer-branding site for the travel group Invia x Travelplanet.pl x Wakacje.pl, one of the largest tour-package sales groups in Central and Eastern Europe operating as an online travel agency (OTA). The page presents the organization, its departments, employee benefits, and its recruitment process for roles in sales, customer service, marketing, finance, analytics, HR, e-commerce, and development.

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Walden Retreats operates a 96-acre luxury glamping retreat in the Texas Hill Country, located between Austin and San Antonio along the Pedernales River. It offers 15 furnished tents with hotel-style amenities plus an event lodge, catering to travelers seeking outdoor lodging and event hosting.

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Wander is a travel app that converts social media content, such as Instagram posts, reels, and videos, into personalized travel maps and itineraries by extracting mentioned places. It also offers curated destination maps and offline access for travelers planning trips.

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Wander operates a data hub for cultural and events content, allowing media platforms and ticketing organizations to distribute event offerings across multiple sales channels and monetize their audiences through personalized, location-based recommendations.

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Wanderable operated an online honeymoon registry service for couples. The service was discontinued as of Summer 2022.

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Wanderlog is a travel planning app for researching, organizing, and mapping trips, offering a collaborative document to track plans, discover places and hotels, and share travel advice with others. It targets consumers planning vacations.

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WanderWallet provides a digital wallet for travelers and expatriates to make local payments across Latin America using QR-based payment methods. The platform enables users to pay in local currencies and transfer funds without currency exchange hassles or country-specific apps.

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WAQAA operates a platform connecting travelers with Indigenous hosts to offer authentic tourism experiences. The company supports Indigenous peoples in developing hospitality businesses and stewarding their ancestral lands.

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Way offers a platform for brands to launch, market, and manage customer experiences such as events and reservable resources from a unified dashboard. The platform provides direct digital booking, inventory management, analytics, and integrations designed for enterprise consumer brands.

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Kabin operates an online hotel booking and membership platform offering discounted stays at select properties. The service caters to travelers seeking accommodation options with loyalty membership benefits.

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Waynabox sells surprise-destination travel packages, revealing the traveler's destination 48 hours before departure with flights and accommodation included. Customers choose dates and preferences while the specific European city (or car trip) remains a surprise until shortly before the trip.

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Move is travel commerce infrastructure that turns AI-generated travel plans and traveler intent into bookable trips by aggregating supply (hotels, flights, experiences), packaging it with an AI engine, and executing multi-supplier bookings through one integration. It serves tour operators, travel agencies, AI trip builders, and fintech/loyalty brands, and offers a white-label distribution hub called holidayheroes.

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Travelers.ai offers customizable trip planning for Greece, letting travelers start from curated itineraries or build their own with hotels, flights, ferries, and days that re-price live and book in one click. Each trip is bundled into a single price, booking, and local point of contact.

1 investor

Via.ai is an AI company serving the travel industry, combining expertise in travel operations and artificial intelligence. The company is led by veterans from travel, finance, and technology sectors.

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