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AirPortr - the London based startup that's fast tracking airline passengers and their luggage between the world's cities The worst part of any trip is the airport. Crying children, garbled announcements that leave you wondering ‘was that my flight?’, overpriced food and drink, and queues. The queue for the plane is unavoidable unless you borrow a small child to get you boarding first;...
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With over 60,000 bags 'stashed' in total since they launched, Luggage storage startup CityStasher will now be known as ‘Stasher’ – a shorter and snappier brand name, which is also simpler to pronounce across the various geographies in which the business operates.   The name change coincides with the launch of Stasher’s new website, which has also been u...
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London startup Accomable, a platform to help people with mobility difficulties find accessible properties around the world has been acquired by Airbnb. Accomable was founded in the summer of 2015 by Srin Madipalli and Martyn Sibley – two childhood friends with Spinal Muscular Atrophy who have travelled all over the world. Frustrated by the difficulty of finding accessible places to stay and...
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Future tech trends that could impact the travel industry going forward - a guest article by Sahil Shah, CEO of Sujester, a personalised travel inspiration platform for the travel sector.Travel is a highly fragmented and highly centralised industry at the same time. It is able to be at the cutting edge of technology, and void of it at the same time. Technological developments such as...
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We have written before about travel startups, but perhaps now it’s time to talk about the least fun part of taking a holiday. Holidays are supposed to be fun and exciting to plan, argue about beach vs hiking, and then eventually book, all the while giving you that feeling of anticipation you probably haven’t had since you were a child looking forward to Christmas. Then, after the perio...
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We are liking the look of Eightydays.me - an online travel tech platform that plans your multi-city travel in literally a few clicks. Instead of spending a few hours working out how you can do multi-city / country travel, Eightdays.me offers users the combination of flights, trains and ferries to create exciting multi-city travel adventure option. Their mission as they state on their website: U...
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We’ve had the pleasure of getting to know the fab KOMPAS team over the last couple of years and we are therefore delighted to share word that their travel tech startup, which uses Artificial Intelligence to personalise the travel experience, was this week announced the overall winner of Visa’s Everywhere Initiative at Money 20/20, taking home a total of €50k in prize money. ...
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Let’s face it, when you have to book a hotel or an apartment, you can do it pretty easily. There are a plethora of websites out there covering all destinations, budgets and other requirements. However if camping is more your thing, it’s an entirely different matter. It can be an altogether frustrating and time consuming affair - whether you’re searching for a camp site on which t...
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Life of a digital nomad is believed to be wonderful, a real fairy tale. You often travel, visiting different countries and meeting a lot of fascinating people and cultures. Besides, you don’t work from 9 to 5 and you are more independent. However, it’s not all sunshine and roses. The lesser-known part is that all moving and traveling sometimes can be tiresome and stressful. Adapting co...
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Whilst we would surely all agree that travel diaries are fab mementoes of trips we’ve had and things we’ve done, very few of us actually ever get around to creating one. There’s the whole issue of time for a start. We never have enough of it! Then there’s the hassle of going through all the details that we’d want to record - from the journeys we’ve made through ...
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