9+ Best Travel Startups to watch in 2021

While the previous year was spent coping during covid, working at home, avoiding travel, it’s time we break away from vacation to vacation. Well, it’s no secret how most of us are itching to dust off our suitcases and fly to our favorite travel destinations. If only we could. But let’s not forget that the travel industry was among the many industries that were hit the hardest last year. In addition to that, in the past year, many travel startups and agencies experienced tough layoffs.

While nothing seemed working at that time, 2021 sparked a hope in us that things soon will go back to normal, and they fortunately are. So for those of you willing to take vetted trips, adhering to travel cautions, I have compiled up a list of useful travel startups.

Holiable

Coming from France, Holiable is one of the newly launch travel startups that has a platform for eco-friendly travelers indexing accommodation, restaurants, well-planned events, and activities on a reasonable budget. Holiable stresses much on its eco-friendliness to ensure zero waste travel.

Some of the sustainable, eco-friendly measures taken by Holiable include their low carbon transportation, no plastic use, and recycling initiatives. It goes up the notch for its climate-conscious travelers by providing them with hotels that emphasize the use of renewable energy, an eco-lodge that helps the local community, a restaurant that serves organic or vegan food, and a city with a limited carbon footprint. All with one purpose that is to protect the local culture and legacy. ‘Travel with a positive impact!’ is their distinctive slogan.

• HQ Location: Lille, France
• Industry: Eco-friendly travel planning, leisure, and tourism
• Employees: 1-10 Employees
• Website: https://www.holiable.com/

You Live to Travel

It is popular as YouLi is based in Melbourne CBD, Victoria. YouLi was founded in 2016 by Jen Fein, the present CEO. It is one of the best travel startups for organizing Group Trips that enables ambitious people to initiate and scale group travel businesses. YouLi is used by many travel enterprises, adventure companies, and educational programs, etc. It got featured on renowned platforms like Thrive Global and Apple Podcast etc.

YouLi with its perfectly synchronized seamless team collaboration provides the services for bookings, itineraries, and tasks and documents for your retreats. It provides an All-In-One Solution in a quick and calculated manner that saves you time and is less stressful. Trusted by 100+ Tour Operators and Travel Agents worldwide makes it one of the leading travel management software for globe trotters.

• HQ Location: Melbourne CBD,Victoria
• Industry: Information Technology and Services
• Employees: 1-10 Employees
• Website: https://youlivetotravel.com

Autoura

A based in Abingdon, OXON is a technology network for planning and managing sightseeing routes aiming at sightseeing and travel experiences via foot, bicycles, and electric scooters, etc.

Autoura’s sightseeing robot Sahra or their digital human assists in traveling locally or internationally and works as a tour guide. The services provided by Autoura include self-guided tours, route designers and cities, and DMOs. Autoura is the best option for roadies.

• HQ Location: Abingdon, OXON
• Industry: Leisure, Travel, and Tourism
• Employees: 1-10 employees
• Website: https://www.autoura.com

Troovo

A Sydney-based travel startup that incorporates a robotic engine for travel and virtual payments. It deals with all your travel transaction processing, B2B payments, and Cost elimination and helps you grow your business. Troovo is a proud partner of internationally acclaimed platforms like MasterCard, American Express and, Microsoft.

Troovo helps businesses integrate their disconnected vendor payment systems using its rules-based robotics process automation (RPA) technology. It, therefore, prevents payment fraud, wage costs, and falls.

• HQ Location: Sydney, New South Wales
• Industry: Computer Software
• Employees: 11-50 employees
• Website: http://www.troovo.com

Hepstar

Founded in 2013, is a cape town-based travel ancillary aggregator and recommendation engine.it emphasizes optimal and customized packaging of ancillary items for travel site agencies and companies.

They provide both travel insurance and ancillary items with merchandising services. Not only does Hepstar maximize the ancillary program of the travel provider’s sales and fast track data analytics, but they are a game-changer when it comes to online travel and travel programs.

• HQ Location: Cape Town, Western Cape
• Industry: Information Technology and Services
• Employees: 11-50 employees
• Website: http://www.hepstar.com

Nomad stays

It is founded in 2019 by Mark, Linda, and Dakar. It is a privately held traveling startup for remote workers and digital nomads who want to and travel the earth while building a career.

Nomad Stays is a passion-driven startup to works from remote parts of the world and builds links with various groups and communities as creative entrepreneurs.

• HQ Location: Le Bourget-du-Lac, Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes
• Industry: Leisure, Travel & Tourism
• Employees: 1-10  employees
• Website: https://www.nomadstays.co

The Secret Eats

It is a privately held travel startup that offers exclusive dining and cocktail experiences for travelers. Their chef-driven menus served in unique exotic locations are out of this world.

The Secret Eats has been featured in Harper’s Bazaar, Travel Massive, and The New York Times.

• HQ Location: Hoi An, Quang Nam
• Industry: Leisure, Travel & Tourism
• Employees: 1-10  employees
• Website: http://thesecreteats.com

Stay 22

It is a Montreal, Quebec-based accommodation map provider and ensures a stress-free booking experience. It is built on Map-centric technology and displays Airbnb and hotels on a single screen. It Curates the country’s major inventory and has about 35 million bookable listings in over 220 countries and territories.

They have collaborated with trusted partners like Airbnb, Booking.com, and Kayak and offer their customers the best choices. Their customer support service is praised by many.

• HQ Location: Montreal, Quebec
• Industry: Hospitality
• Employees: 11-50  employees
• Website: https://www.stay22.com/

Lemi App

I finish our list of best Travel Startups with Lemi App. A tech company based in Hong Kong, committed to developing a digital ecosystem for promoting small local companies and businesses. It is a worldwide community of people from 97 countries who make recommendations around the world to support great local businesses.

Lemi is also a proud partner of Great Women, The Bamboo Company and Pap’s Hideout, etc. The #LemiWashMyHands campaign in collaboration with UNICEF, WHO, and CDC is its remarkable achievement.

• HQ Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong
• Industry: Information Technology and Services
• Employees: 1-10 employees
• Website: https://lemiapp.com

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