All hail the travel tech revolution!

On your TravelTech Show hunt for innovation this year, may we direct you to the Trailblazers of 2022. All young businesses with big ideas, this year’s disruptive bunch are five startups set to revolutionise the travel industry.

You can watch them battle it out for this year’s crown in the Trailblazers Awards final at 3:30pm on Wednesday 29 June in our Turing Theatre, where they will be judged – quite literally – by …

• Jon Pickles, Travel Technology Consultant
• Walter Toscano, Digital Travel Practice - Senior Advisor - Travel and Telecom
• David Haigh, Head of IT - If Only.. and Elegant Resorts
• Paul Curtis, Chief Technology Officer - easyJet Holidays
• Giora Feldman, CTO - Villa Plus

And now your chance to meet them:

1. Cruisewatch - stand M70 -TB2
A German travel tech startup backed by VC funding, Cruisewatch is revolutionising travel industry consulting around the globe with the help of AI. Its data-driven technology simplifies the consulting process, finds intelligent solutions and digitises the sales process.

2. ClueCation – stand M71 - TB1
A UK based travel tech company specialising in the gamification of self-guided travel, ClueCation creates experiences that help travellers explore destinations in a truly immersive way, connecting them with the cultures, people and places they visit.

 

3. Octopus Travel Matrix – stand M70 – TB4
Exists to help tour operators grow without increasing headcount, overheads or stress. Its powerful automation tools help streamline tour operators and to up-sell services to clients to increase margin on their tours. This means the tour operator gets regularly updated software, which is always evolving to meet the ever-changing demands of the travel sector.

4. Travel Ledger – stand M70 – TB3
An electronic invoice and remittance system which is connected to UK and European banking for easy and secure payments between travel buyers and suppliers. Travel Ledger will replace the current billing, reconciliation and settlement process to make it fast, easy and inexpensive to transact non-airline provided travel services.

 

5. TripMatrix – stand M70-TB6
A commission-based all-in-one travel agency software for selling and managing travel products and services. Travel agencies, tour operators and DMCs of all sizes use TripMatrix to manage their day-to-day business. Built in the Cloud with intuitive design, and available across all devices, makes TripMatrix software easy to use, easy to learn, and easy to teach.

Make sure you join the finalists for the 'Dragon's Den' style grand final taking place on Wednesday 29 June at 15:30 in the Turing Theatre where each of them will pitch their software and one of them will be crowned trailblazer of the year!