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🏆 Applications are open: FutureTravel Pitch Competition

Jul 3, 2026

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🏆 Applications are open: FutureTravel Pitch Competition

because every travel tech giant was once just an idea in a pitch deck 🚀

Now at $4.8B in bookings. But it started as an accident.

Jun 25, 2026

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Now at $4.8B in bookings. But it started as an accident.

RateHawk's origin story + getting travelers to trust AI enough to hit book + Gen Z books at midnight

A budget airline just bought a tour operator (and an airline, and hotels) for $843M

Jun 19, 2026

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A budget airline just bought a tour operator (and an airline, and hotels) for $843M

plus: speaker applications are open, a $3.75M bet on autonomous rentals, and more.

What retail is predicting for the next decade, and what it means for travel 👀

Jun 12, 2026

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What retail is predicting for the next decade, and what it means for travel 👀

sharing my notes

FutureTravel Summit 2026: tickets open now 🎟️

Jun 8, 2026

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FutureTravel Summit 2026: tickets open now 🎟️

you don't want to miss this :)

Did Mews just kill the acronyms?

May 29, 2026

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6 min read

Did Mews just kill the acronyms?

their words: "hospitality's iphone moment." My words: they're definitely thinking different.

A former pilot raised $1.5M to save airlines up to $4M a year. The startup is less than a year old.

May 21, 2026

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A former pilot raised $1.5M to save airlines up to $4M a year. The startup is less than a year old.

United Airlines Ventures, Pegasus, and Baobab all in. For a pre-seed.

⛰️ A tiny region in the Alps just got 2 funding rounds in the same week

May 7, 2026

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⛰️ A tiny region in the Alps just got 2 funding rounds in the same week

Smartness raised €47M. Days later, another hotel AI startup (from the same mountains!) announced funding

We have questions about AI in travel. You too?

Apr 30, 2026

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We have questions about AI in travel. You too?

we all do! so we built something for that

€2M to make European night trains run like hotels

Apr 23, 2026

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€2M to make European night trains run like hotels

grandma tourism + Intrepid makes France its 4th market + jet lag fixed with light and caffeine

The WhatsApp move that gets tour operators 5x more reviews ⚡️

Apr 16, 2026

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3 min read

The WhatsApp move that gets tour operators 5x more reviews ⚡️

and the startup giving hotel GMs their mornings back

When hotels offered a free drink, guests said no 🍹

Apr 10, 2026

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5 min read

When hotels offered a free drink, guests said no 🍹

they’d rather do something else entirely

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