📣 Last call to apply for Fraport's Open Pitch Day! Do you have a solution or technology that revolutionizes the aviation industry and addresses at least one of the following areas? 🌿 Growth and Sustainability 💡 Efficiency and Innovation 👩💼 Employer of Choice Don't miss the chance and take 5 minutes to apply here 👉🏼 https://pnptc.in/4hx8Ml7 #opencall #futureofaviation #traveltech #pnptc #openinnovation
Plug and Play Travel & Hospitality
Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
Sunnyvale, California 4,305 followers
Rethinking innovation in travel and hospitality
About us
At Plug and Play Travel & Hospitality, our mission is to discover, support, and scale disruptive technologies that are defining the future of the travel & hospitality industries. To do this, we connect leading organizations to a curated selection of startups that meet their needs. As the ultimate innovation platform headquartered in Silicon Valley, with locations in Singapore, China, Austria, and more, we are rethinking innovation in travel, creating an ecosystem with our partners and startups to provide travelers a seamless travel experience. Our focus areas include: Sustainability, Operational Efficiency, Customer Engagement & Loyalty, Ancillary Revenues, Seamless Journey, and Fintech & New Payment Solutions.
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External link for Plug and Play Travel & Hospitality
- Industry
- Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
- Company size
- 501-1,000 employees
- Headquarters
- Sunnyvale, California
- Founded
- 2016
- Specialties
- traveltech, travel technology, travel, hospitality, startups, startup accelerator, open innovation, corporate innovation, hotel, hotel tech , silicon valley, project management, Innovation, digital transformation, airports, airlines, hotels, travel agencies, TMC, and Plug and Play
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🌍 Keeping one of the world’s busiest airports running smoothly is no small feat! Sensemore.io joined forces with iGA Istanbul Airport to tackle the complex challenges of maintaining critical infrastructure. By focusing on the baggage handling system and escalators, Sensemore deployed cutting-edge sensors to predict failures and optimize maintenance schedules. Plug and Play Türkiye initiated this collaboration and provided ongoing support, helping showcase this technology to a broader audience and creating new opportunities. 🎥 Discover how innovation is reshaping airport operations: 👇 Learn more about Plug and Play Türkiye: https://pnptc.in/49Neoo1 #PNPTC #PNPTCTurkiye #AIinTravel #Travel Bilal YILDIZ, Çağlar Aksu, Lale Can Gözübüyük, Elif Gozen, Ceren Civlan, Emrecan Kerçek
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Smart Kiwi partnered with iGA Istanbul Airport to tackle unpredictable passenger inflows and long queue times. Using advanced AI models, they achieved a 30-50% reduction in wait times and optimized operational efficiency. Plug and Play Türkiye facilitated this partnership, connecting the right stakeholders and streamlining collaboration. 🎥 See how AI is shaping airport operations below! Learn more about Plug and Play Türkiye: https://pnptc.in/49Neoo1 #PNPTC #PNPTCTurkiye #AIinTravel #Travel Bilal YILDIZ, Murat Derya Ozen, Lale Can Gözübüyük, Elif Gozen, Ceren Civlan, Emrecan Kerçek
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Plug and Play, in partnership with UN Tourism, is redefining tourism through technology. The UN Tourism Artificial Intelligence Global Startup Competition is here, and we’re looking for bold, market-ready ideas that can drive sustainability and innovation in the industry. 💡 Be part of a global initiative to: - Transform tourism through AI, VR/AR, and cutting-edge technology - Support the Sustainable Development Goals - Showcase your solutions to an international audience - Applications are open now through July 31! 📢 Check out our official announcement + details on how to apply: https://pnptc.in/3ZuVrBA #PNPTC #UNTourism
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🚀 Exciting Insights Coming Soon! 🚀 We are thrilled to announce the upcoming release of our Batch Report for Plug and Play’s Travel and Hospitality program! 🌍✨ This report takes an in-depth look at the startups that have gone through our accelerator program from Batches 9 to 18 (2020-2024), highlighting key trends, challenges, and opportunities that have shaped the travel and hospitality sector during this time. 🔍 What is inside? • A closer look at the distribution of startups across various sectors • Insights into emerging trends and sector-specific startups • An overview of key data from our recent batches We will be releasing the report in increments, with each update focusing on a specific sector to give you a detailed view of the program and the direction the industry is heading. Stay tuned for the first installment—Consumer Confidence—dropping soon in January! 🌟 #TravelTech #Innovation #StartupEcosystem #BatchReport #PlugAndPlay #TravelAndHospitality #EmergingTech #AcceleratorProgram
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Exciting news from Airial Travel and CoInvent AI who was featured on the Summit stage during our startup spotlight segment last November! Congrats to the team Archit Karandikar and Sanjeev Shenoy! #traveltechnology #startups
Co-founder, CEO at CoInvent AI. ex-Waymo, Google, Meta. Represented India at the ICPC World Finals 2013, 2014 and at IOI 2010.
We are announcing the launch of Airial Travel’s open-to-all beta version for desktop today. Airial is your personal travel agent with AI superpowers which makes planning and booking trips as easy as dreaming them up. https://airial.travel/ Me and Sanjeev Shenoy co-founded Airial Travel a year ago to solve a problem we faced repeatedly. Being avid travelers living in the US with our families in India, we were traveling for several months a year and spending multiple days planning and booking each trip. Hours and hours of research, browsing, watching videos, form-filling, spreadsheets, refinements etc. At the end of the process in most cases, we just booked because we were exhausted and wanted to get it over with. As we dug deeper, we realized that the scale and the intensity of this problem is stunning - hundreds of millions of trips are booked online every year and planning each of them takes over five hours on average. Our vision “Just imagine your trip, and Airial it!” stems from our ultimate wish as travelers - AI that can figure out all the intricacies of trip planning for you - hotels, activities, flights, trains, transits, deals, date options, restaurants, interests, research, travel videos and everything else. Our defining features originate from the core beliefs that Airial is built on: 📅 Detailed intricately crafted plans: Attention to detail makes trip plans incredible. Airial plans trips in a level of detail that is simply unmatched, taking care of hundreds of common sense constraints across thousands of variables in seconds. 🚀 From Reels to Itineraries: TikTok / IG reels to Trips is work that millions do manually. We now enable all this in a click. This is the intersection of the two big trends in travel - AI and Socials. 🏖️ Personalized Planning: Travel portals today are one-size-fits-all. We plan trips tailored to your specific interests - architecture tours, scenic hikes or samurai sword fighting lessons! 👆 Actionable Itineraries: Just having a chatbot pick out one combination for you isn’t practically useful. Which was the last trip you planned that didn’t need any refinement? Every decision Airial makes for you is changeable via chat or UI controls. 🌎 Discovery in context: As you plan your trip, Airial gives you the tools to discover incredible ideas and expert advice specific to your itinerary and interests which can be instantly imported into your trip. Now you can “Just imagine your trip and Airial it!”. Try it out now on your laptop at https://airial.travel/
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🎉 The 8th edition of IAG’s Hangar 51 Accelerator is a wrap! On November 27, 2024, our partner International Airlines Group (IAG) organized its annual Demo Day at their HQs in London - a final event to conclude the 8th Hangar 51 Accelerator. Sponsors from IAG’s operating companies and the selected startups presented their projects and innovative proposals. The Plug and Play UK and Vienna teams were part of it and supported the team with the organization. Congratulations to the startups again - Aeon Blue, Aiir Innovations, beder, FlyORO, KeepFlying®, Nexus Lab, Noya, Oreyeon, Parloa, Tarmac Technologies, Tomorrow.io, Zero®, and ZestIoT ! Explore our Travel & Hospitality programs here: https://pnptc.in/4f7KUCi #PNPTCTravel
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🚀 Exciting News from the UN Tourism Initiative! Congratulations to Dosy Bikes, BuzzAR(博跃), and Darent- the winners of the Women in Tech Startup Competition: Middle East! 🎉 We were thrilled to receive 133 applications from 12 different countries and it is truly inspiring to see so many exceptional women-led startups offering innovative solutions that are transforming the tourism industry. A special shoutout to Andrea Azzolari from our Saudi Arabia team for representing Plug and Play as one of the judges during the event. 🎊 Also, a big thank you to Antonio López de Ávila Muñoz and the entire UN Tourism team for organizing this fantastic initiative! 🙌 #Founders #Innovation #WomenInTech #Tourism #MiddleEast
UN Tourism proudly announces the winners of the Women in Tech Startup Competition: Middle East 🌟 🏆 Dosy, Egypt 🏆 BuzzAr, Saudi Arabia 🏆 Darent,Saudi Arabia Congratulations to these trailblazing women shaping the future of tourism & tech in the region! 🚀
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✈️ We are soaring into a new partnership! We are thrilled to embark on an exciting journey of innovation with our new Canadian partner, PortsToronto! A heartfelt thank you to RJ Steenstra AAE, IAP, ICD.D, GCB.D, Will Ramjass , and John Peellegoda, CPA, CA, MBA for making this collaboration possible. Together, we can move towards a more innovative future and make a lasting impact on the transportation industry. We can not wait to get started! 🛩️ 🌟 🚢 #PNPTC #Travel #OpenInnovation #CorporateInnovation
We're excited to announce our latest partnership with PortsToronto. Together, we aim to drive innovation across the Toronto Waterfront, including Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport and the Port of Toronto! 🌊✈️ Together, we'll be leveraging cutting-edge digital solutions to enhance connectivity, streamline operations, and improve the passenger experience. From optimizing airport systems to transforming port operations, this partnership is set to redefine transportation for the future. We can't wait to begin this exciting journey with PortsToronto, working to deliver solutions that benefit all stakeholders and help shape the future of transportation! 🚗💡 Learn more: https://pnptc.in/3UXWDvF #PNPTC #Travel
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🗣 Summit EXPO Recap! 🎉 What an incredible journey it has been at the Silicon Valley Summit! 🚀 Last week, Plug and Play Tech Center hosted over 3500 attendees at our November Summit Event! This audience of Corporate Partners, VCs, and Startups from over 20 industry verticals attended exclusive sessions centered around pushing the boundaries of innovation. Our Travel EXPO kicked off with opening remarks from our own Amir Amidi, followed by a few words from our newest partner, PortsToronto. The EXPO featured an insightful panel discussion with Christoph Schmidt, Head of Innovation at Flughafen Wien - Vienna Airport, Daniel Senyard, SVP of Flight Centre Travel Group, David Garcia Hernando, CIO of TUI Musement, and RJ Steenstra AAE, IAP, ICD.D, GCB.D, CEO of PortsToronto. They delved into digital transformation initiatives in the travel sector. The EXPO’s spotlight was on five incredible startups from our Batch 18 program. A big thank you to the teams from Coframe (Josh Payne), Maven AGI (Aaron Jones), Bicycle AI (Bhaskar Sunkara), Skan AI (Aman Rangrass), and Swifty (Stanislav Bondarenko) for presenting their game-changing solutions on stage! Additionally, our partner All Nippon Airways represented by Tomoko Yoshimura took home the Partner Award for their excellence and commitment to innovation. A special congratulations goes to Stanislav Bondarenko from Swifty for winning our Batch Startup Award! Lastly, a big thank you goes out to our mentors who came in person to support our founders. Stay tuned for more updates as we prepare for our next EXPO in June! #traveltechnology #traveltech #hospitality #startups #founders #plugandplaytechcenter #aviation
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