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Open Destinations makes complicated holidays add up
Behind a tailor-made tour sits a thicket of rates, rooms, rail seats and revisions. Open Destinations sells the software - and the human help - that keeps them together.
Sastaticket Sold the Journey. Then It Had to Handle the Refund.
The Pakistani booking company grew by putting travel choices on a screen. Its harder education came when flights stopped, customers called, and selling a ticket was no longer enough.
tiket.com Wants to Book Your Trip. And Keep You After It.
The Indonesian travel company nearly ran out of reasons to stay open. Its next act connects flights, family weekends and everyday shopping - with a sharper promise when plans go wrong.
Serko’s big business is behind your business trip
The Auckland software company put its technology inside Booking.com for Business and bought a bigger seat in corporate travel. Now it must make growing booking volumes pay - while teaching AI to handle the itinerary.
Trip.com Group Wants the Whole Trip
Flights, beds, train tickets, even the itinerary: Trip.com Group wants a role in every part of your holiday. Its sprawling business reveals both the value of a travel middleman and the trouble that comes with having too much power.
SilverRail sells the machinery behind your train ticket
ScotRail’s £83.8 million retail systems award shows how much happens before a passenger boards. SilverRail has built a business making that complexity someone else’s problem.
Fornova knows what your hotel room is really selling for
A hotel can set its room rate and still lose control of the price guests see. Fornova follows that price across the web, then helps commercial teams decide what to fix first.
15below sells airlines a shorter silence
A cancelled flight is bad enough. The Brighton software company turns the scramble to contact passengers into an automated workflow - and is now bringing airports into the conversation.
Atcore: The Software Behind £20 Billion in Holiday Bookings
The travel software company helps turn flights, hotel rooms and a thicket of prices into holidays people can actually book. Its story runs from a £45 million buyout to the daily work of making complicated trips look simple.
The Airport Perk Hiding Inside 40 Million Wallets
Dragonpass turned the airport’s least lovable product - waiting - into infrastructure for bank loyalty. Its trick is not owning the lounge, but making thousands of scattered perks behave like one digital benefit.
The Travel Company You’ve Probably Used Without Knowing It
Arrivia hides behind some of the world’s best-known loyalty programs, turning points and member perks into bookable trips. Its edge is less glamorous than a beach ad - deep cruise supply, private pricing and the operational plumbing to make someone else’s brand look good.
PROS Spent 40 Years Teaching Airlines What Every Seat Is Worth - Then Split the Company in Two
The Houston software veteran began with an overbooking algorithm, grew into a $330 million pricing platform and survived both a cloud rebuild and aviation's worst shock. Its new owner has now made a stark bet: the airline brain is more valuable on its own.
The Black Car Startup Betting Its Best Inventory Is the Ride Nobody Wanted
LUXY Ride built a national chauffeur network around an unglamorous discovery: the expensive car returning empty may be the cheapest useful ride in town. Then COVID-19 arrived weeks after launch and forced the company to prove whether efficiency could survive without passengers.
Vernost Is Building the Plumbing Behind Your Points, Trips and Payments
Most loyalty points live in a cul-de-sac. Vernost wants to turn them into a network - connecting rewards, bookings and checkout for the enterprises that serve millions of customers.
The Quiet Algorithm Behind the Price of a Hotel Room
Before a guest sees a room rate, IDeaS has often weighed the demand, the timing and the cost of saying yes. The Minnesota software company turned an airline math problem into the operating logic of modern hospitality.
Sabre Wants to Turn Travel's Oldest Plumbing Into an AI Checkout
Born from a chance conversation between two airplane seatmates, Sabre made reservations instant. Six decades later, it is trying to make the travel industry's fragmented checkout work like one intelligent transaction.
Expedia Is Building the Travel Internet Behind the Travel Internet
The familiar booking brands are only the shop window. Expedia Group's more consequential bet is to become the shared infrastructure for travelers, suppliers, advertisers and thousands of businesses that want to sell a trip.
Travel Leaders Group
Travel Leaders Group built a quiet operating system for independent travel agencies - pooling supplier clout, software, marketing and education while leaving the advisor’s own name on the door.
Choice Hotels International
Choice Hotels built a 661,089-room network by owning very few of the rooms. Its real product is the connective tissue - brands, bookings, loyalty and software that help thousands of independent hotel owners compete.
Coforge
The former NIIT Technologies spent years learning the machinery of airlines, banks and insurers. Now, with 45,000-plus people and an expanding stack of AI platforms, Coforge is trying to turn that institutional memory into software that can act.
BeMyGuest - Tours & Activities
The Singapore company quietly wiring up Asia's tours and attractions - one booking system, one distribution network, and a decade spent digitising an industry that still ran on paper tickets.
Opsigo
Opsigo is a Jakarta-based travel technology company that helps travel agencies and corporations run business travel end to end. Founded in 2014, its cloud platform bundles an online booking engine, a corporate travel-and-expense management system (Opsicorp), and a mid-to-back office finance engine (Opsifin). Opsigo aggregates content from more than 200 airlines and 300,000+ hotels, connects 40+ Indonesian travel agencies, and processes over IDR 1 trillion in transactions per month, positioning itself as the digital backbone for a market where conventional agencies still dominate.
Plover
Plover is a Singapore-based corporate travel and technology company that simplifies business travel through a wholly owned, cloud-based SaaS platform. Founded in 2017, it combines a full-service travel management company (TMC) with proprietary apps for travel booking, expense management, and workspace management. Plover describes itself as builder of Asia's first fully integrated corporate travel, expense and workspace platform, offering GDS, NDC and Direct Connect airline content plus global hotel aggregators to corporates and travel agencies across the Asia Pacific region.
Softinn Solutions
Softinn Solutions is a Malaysian hotel technology company that builds cloud-based hotel management software for boutique hotels, resorts, villas and hotel chains across the Asia Pacific. Its all-in-one platform pairs a Property Management System with a Channel Manager connected to 40+ OTAs, a commission-free booking engine, a website CMS and self-service check-in kiosks - designed around the mission to 'make hotelier work easier.' Founded in Melaka in 2012 by JeeShen Lee and Caren, Softinn serves 1,000+ hotel owners in markets including Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines and Singapore.
Umrahme
Umrahme is a Dubai-based digital travel platform that lets Muslim pilgrims plan and book Umrah trips online - bundling visas, flights, Makkah and Madinah hotels, ground transport and Haramain train tickets into customizable packages. Part of the Traveazy Group and accredited by Saudi Arabia's official Nusuk platform, Umrahme launched the region's first fully digitalized B2C Umrah booking experience in October 2023, serving pilgrims across both B2B agent and direct-to-consumer channels.
WegoPro
WegoPro is a business travel and expense management platform that gives growing companies a single place to book flights and hotels, enforce travel policies through multi-level approvals, and automate expense reporting with real-time analytics. Formerly the Singapore-founded SaaS startup Travelstop, it was acquired by Middle East travel marketplace Wego in September 2023 and relaunched as WegoPro in January 2024, initially across seven MENA markets. The platform pairs consumer-grade booking experience with finance-team controls, aiming to reduce travel costs and administrative overhead for small and mid-sized businesses.
TripWorks
TripWorks is a New York-based, AI- and business-intelligence-driven booking, automation, and management platform built for tour, activity, and attraction operators. Founded in 2019 by Aaron Fessler and described as 'built by operators for operators,' the platform consolidates online and in-person bookings, reservations, dynamic pricing, digital waivers, staff and resource scheduling, OTA channel management, and marketing automation into a single system. It powers thousands of daily bookings worldwide and, following a $6M Series A in January 2026 led by Spring Mountain Capital, is expanding AI-driven pricing, revenue optimization, and predictive demand tools.
Grasp Technologies
Grasp Technologies is a travel-data company founded in 1996 that consolidates, cleans and normalizes fragmented booking, expense and payment data for travel management companies, travel agencies and corporate travel programs. Its platform pairs a data-unification engine (graspDATA), Power BI-driven business intelligence (graspANALYTICS) and a virtual-card payment product (graspPAY) that connects to more than 90 banks. Headquartered in Dublin, Ohio, the company says it powers over $40 billion in transactions and serves customers in more than 60 countries.
Matador Network
Matador Network is a San Francisco-based travel media company founded in 2006 that publishes original stories, videos, and city guides for modern, adventure-minded travelers. Bootstrapped from an $11,000 start into one of the world's largest independent travel brands, its content reaches well over 100 million people a month across web and social. In 2023 it launched GuideGeek, a free OpenAI-powered travel assistant that answers questions inside Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook Messenger, and now licenses white-label versions of that AI to tourism boards and destination marketing organizations worldwide.
ITILITE
ITILITE is a SaaS company that folds business travel booking, expense reporting, and corporate cards into a single platform for mid-market and enterprise companies. Founded in 2017 by two former McKinsey consultants who were tired of the manual sprawl of corporate travel, it now serves 250+ enterprises globally, promises human support in about 30 seconds, and has moved into AI with tools like the Iris travel analyst and the Mastermind analytics console.