7 Startups Helping You Pick Your Next Holiday Destination

The last quarter of the year is soon approaching and during this time, many begin to travel the world to escape the cold Autumn and Winter seasons. Planning a trip carefully and responsibly is the trick to a perfect holiday. Many have trouble deciding where, when and how they’d like to travel, and for this, the digital world has come with solutions.

In recent news, Natwest announced a partnership with Visa to bring a new travel reward credit card designed especially for UK customers. This card has benefits that are intended to make travelling more rewarding while still being cost effective.

Salim Secretary, Head of Payment Schemes and Partnerships at NatWest Group, shared, “Our new Travel Reward Credit card is rewarding our customers with one percent back on their travel spend. It is through our long-term collaboration with Visa that we have been able to further extend the choice of cards available to our customers.”

This is good for UK travel as it has no foreign transactional fees, thereby taking away the costs that are usually associated with using a credit card when travelling to different countries.

 

7 Apps And Startups Making Travelling A Breeze

 

The tech world is using apps and web platforms to help travellers create the best trip possible, with tools such as navigation services, guides, travel planners, and now, with AI, a more personalised form of assistance when it comes to all of these. These 7 stood out, with one of which launching soon:

 

1. Vagamo (Launching September 2)

 

 

Vagamo is a hybrid travel platform that allows you to plan a trip quickly and easily. The platform simplifies travel arrangements, allowing its customers to either book their flights directly, via an agent, or via a combination of both. In other words, it simplifies the process, allowing the customer to enjoy both the simplicity of booking online and the bespoke expert travel service. This way, each customer may search for the airfare options independently or may ask an expert travel agent for support planning a trip.

Each customer may get travel suggestions and offers tailored to travellers preferences and budget – like this, no customer is left behind, and even the ones with very limited budget and a vague idea of travel destination may find a solution.

The hybrid travel platform is a member of Trevolution Group, whose portfolio includes a number of international travel brands. Via the partnerships of Trevolution Group, the new platforms offers exclusive faces and deals that are not available anywhere else.

 

2. SkiYodl

 

This startup was founded by a ski instructor, and helps ski enthusiasts find the best places to stay at where they can ski. They connect users directly to hotels and property owners in the Swiss Alps easily, while also showing all the best restaurants and activities to try out while at your stay.

 

3. Love To Visit

 

 

This startup helps travellers find tickets to different activities happening in the area. Their user friendly platform is designed so that users can quickly create itineraries, all without paying a membership fee. Here, you can find guides, tickets, things to do indoors, as well as outdoors.
 

 

4. Superhog

 

 

This platform is perfect for those who want to stay covered during their stay. The name is an abbreviation for Super Host, Operator, and Guest. It serves and brings tools for property managers and hosts to screen guests, manage risks, and handle deposits with their platform. Superhog also brings damage protection plans to insure hosts’ properties from damages created during holiday stays.

For guests, features like the Checkin Hero helps make sure they can get refunds for bookings that did not go as planned. It also allows guests to enjoy peace of mind by securing booking for less than the total, so that they don’t end up paying a full fee for a trip that could be cancelled.

 

5. Mindtrip

 

 

This AI travel planner brings a new way for users to plan their next trip. It allows users to create travel itineraries instantly by just uploading a link, photo or PDF of their favourite travel content for AI to work with.

It gives customised suggestions based on each user’s preference, with photos, reviews and maps. Users can take a quiz to help figure out their travel style, which will then determine the travel recommendations.

 

6. AI Emily by Neural Voice

 

 

AI Emily by Neural Voice is a voice-activated travel agent that helps users find and book their dream holiday through conversational AI. Users can speak directly to Emily to help book, choose and find the perfect holiday plans and destinations. The system uses intelligent queries to deliver these options, for a more simplified process of travelling.

 

7. CityMapper

 

 

This is a travel and navigation app that helps its users move around different cities around the world. It gives real-time comparisons of different options for transport, such as public transport, walking, cycling, scooters, and so on, so that users can pick the most convenient option and routes.

It gives travellers step-by-step navigation, departure times and even bus and train locations. Travellers can stay safe by sharing their location and trips with friends and family, so that loved ones can track travels as well. It supports offline access to maps and navigation, so it’s still useful without internet connectivity.