Trailblazer Awards 2026

Drifter is AI visibility infrastructure for places. Our product Currents runs real traveler queries against ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity to measure how destinations, hotels, and attractions show up in AI recommendations, then shows them exactly how to improve. We start with DMOs and expand into the broader place economy.

Hotelblock.ai is a hospitality tech company that provides an AI-powered revenue growth platform built for hospitality group sales teams. The company automates the entire group sales workflow, from outbound prospecting and lead capture to proposal generation, follow-ups, and deal closure. Designed to increase conversion rates and maximize high-margin group revenue, Hotelblock.ai empowers lean sales teams to operate with greater efficiency, visibility, and scale.

ImpersonAlly is an AI-native brand protection and fraud intelligence platform that detects and stops impersonation, phishing, and misinformation delivered through paid ads, search results, AI-generated answers, domains, and social channels. As generative AI makes scams faster, cheaper, and more convincing, fraudsters increasingly weaponize advertising ecosystems to hijack brand traffic, steal customer data, and distort marketing attribution. 

Kudos Travel Technology helps travel agencies move from fragmented systems to seamless travel experiences.

Built exclusively for travel management companies, Kudos delivers one simple branded experience where everything works as one. Agencies deploy Kudos under their own brand while integrating with the systems and providers they already trust.

Rather than replacing existing technology or competing for the customer relationship, Kudos enables agencies to deliver enterprise-grade digital travel experiences without the cost and complexity of building their own technology platforms.

Kudos. Joins the dots for travel agencies.

Rebookify is a B2B travel technology platform that automatically monitors hotel reservations after they are booked and detects when the same booking becomes available at a lower price. When a better rate appears, the system alerts the agency or enables rebooking, allowing travel sellers to recover margin without changing suppliers or booking workflows. The platform converts post-booking price volatility into measurable margin recovery and operational efficiency.

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