Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain · Event The Canary Islands' largest entrepreneurship and innovation event, in its 4th edition with a three-day format, 2,000+ attendees, 50+ startups, and a €10,000 pitch competition. Strong for early-stage founders connecting with the fast-rising Canarian ecosystem and its digital-nomad-adjacent community.
Munich, Germany · Startup Mobility platform offering intercity bus and train travel founded in Munich in 2011. Operates across Europe and North America (acquired Greyhound in 2021) under parent Flix SE.
Barcelona, Spain · Event Travel-tech startup pitch competition at Phocuswright Europe in Barcelona. Application deadline: April 1, 2026. Live pitch date: June 16, 2026. Format typically selects seed and scale-up companies for investor and corporate jury exposure.
Berlin, Germany · Event World's leading travel trade show with a major eTravel World segment. Price: about EUR 60 day ticket or EUR 100 permanent pass. Essential for TravelTech startups selling to airlines and hotels.
Paris, France · Startup Naboo is a Paris-based corporate event and seminar booking platform that lets companies plan offsites and team events through a single system covering venues, accommodation, catering, transportation and team-building activities. Sometimes described as the Booking.com of corporate seminars, it is building a software suite to help finance and procurement teams oversee MICE budgets, including spend tracking, policy compliance and invoicing. Founded in 2022, the company raised a 20 million euro Series A round in early 2025 led by Notion Capital to fund European expansion.
Dublin, Ireland · Startup Nuitée is a travel technology company providing API infrastructure for hotel connectivity and distribution, acting as a link between accommodation providers and demand partners. Headquartered in Dublin, with additional offices in Spain, Morocco, the UK and the US, it offers product families spanning distribution and booking solutions, APIs and whitelabel services, and hotel data mapping. Its platform enables hotels, airlines, travel agencies and app developers to build travel and booking solutions, including AI-driven workflows for booking, pricing and distribution. The company was founded by Med Benmansour (CEO), Said Rkaibi and Olivier Dheur, and raised a $48 million Series A round led by Accel.
Sofia, Bulgaria · Startup Traveltech platform (formerly Flataway) using AI to build direct-booking websites and a conversion-focused booking engine for vacation-rental property managers, integrating with 40+ PMS systems to cut OTA dependency.
Barcelona, Spain · Event Organisator Organizer of Phocuswright Europe and associated startup pitch formats in travel technology. Phocuswright has been a leading travel industry research and events brand for over 25 years, and its European conference gathers hundreds of traveltech founders, OTAs, and hospitality investors for data-driven insights and startup innovation showcases.
Poznan, Poland · Startup Profitroom is a Poznan-based hospitality technology company founded in 2008, providing booking engines, channel managers, CRM tools, and marketing automation for hotels and resorts. The platform helps properties drive direct bookings and reduce reliance on OTAs like Booking.com, serving over 3,500 hotels across Europe. Profitroom has raised funding from Enterprise Investors and expanded into DACH, Southern Europe, and the UK. The company is one of Poland's most established B2B SaaS exports in the travel technology sector and a growing competitor to Mews and SiteMinder in the European hotel-tech stack.
Riga, Latvia · Startup Rebookify is a Riga-based travel-automation platform that turns the price volatility of hotel inventory into recovered margin for travel agencies, TMCs, and OTAs. The system ingests a customer's refundable bookings, continuously rescans the same and equivalent room types across dozens of supplier APIs, detects when a cheaper identical alternative is available before the cancellation deadline, and either alerts the agent or auto-rebooks to capture the delta — all without disturbing the guest's reservation experience. In practice this is a meaningful margin lever: hotel rates move constantly, and even a few percent of recaptured spread across a large corporate travel book flows straight to agency bottom line. The product combines price tracking, room-equivalence matching, and workflow automation tuned to the actual operational realities of travel desks, and is a representative example of the practical B2B AI automation wave coming out of the Baltic startup scene.
Edinburgh, United Kingdom · Startup Skyscanner is a global travel search engine founded in Edinburgh that compares flights, hotels, and car rentals across hundreds of providers. Acquired by Ctrip (now Trip.com Group) in 2016 for $1.7 billion, Skyscanner continues to operate independently from Scotland and serves over 100 million monthly users. It remains one of Europe's most recognized consumer tech brands and a key reference point for Scotland's startup ecosystem.
Arco, Italy · Startup Smartness (formerly Smartpricing) is an Italian travel-tech and hospitality SaaS company headquartered in Arco, Trentino. It started as a dynamic-pricing revenue-management tool for accommodation providers and has expanded into an end-to-end AI platform for the hospitality sector, covering dynamic pricing, marketing campaign management, booking optimisation, guest messaging, CRM, payments, reputation management and property-management tools. The platform is aimed at helping hotels and accommodation properties increase revenue and direct bookings while reducing dependency on online travel agencies. In May 2026 it closed a €47 million Series B round.
Seville, Spain · Event A leading global travel-tech summit with around 7,000 attendees, 400+ speakers, and 200 exhibitors at FIBES Seville, covering AI applications, intelligent destinations, distribution models, and sustainable operations. For traveltech founders it is the main Iberian stage to reach hospitality buyers, destinations, and travel investors.
Berlin, Germany · Startup Tourlane is a Berlin-based travel tech company that combines technology with personal travel advisors to create customized multi-day trips. The platform uses data and algorithms to match travelers with personalized itineraries for long-haul destinations, then pairs them with expert advisors for booking. Tourlane has raised over $100 million and serves customers primarily in Germany and the US, bridging the gap between OTA convenience and traditional travel agency expertise.
Vienna, Austria · Startup TourRadar is a Vienna-based online travel marketplace specialising in multi-day organised tours. Founded in 2010 by brothers Travis and Shawn Pittman, it connects travelers with tour operators worldwide across adventure travel, safaris, river cruises, food tours and hiking trips. The platform lets users browse, compare and book multi-day trips, read traveler reviews and access booking-protection services. It positions itself as an organised adventure platform and has raised venture funding through a Series C round with backers including TCV, Cherry Ventures and Speedinvest.
Barcelona, Spain · Startup TravelPerk is a Barcelona-based corporate travel platform that replaces fragmented business-trip booking and policy management with a software-first system designed for both employees and finance teams. Its product combines broad travel inventory with a consumer-grade booking flow, while also giving companies the controls they need around approvals, budget visibility, invoicing, and reporting. That mix matters because corporate travel historically sat in an awkward space between employee convenience and finance oversight, with legacy travel management tools serving neither side particularly well. TravelPerk's software approach turns travel into a manageable operating workflow rather than a disconnected administrative burden. It has also expanded its moat through flexibility, policy automation, and integrations into the wider HR and finance stack, which makes it attractive to fast-growing international teams. In the European ecosystem, TravelPerk is one of the clearest examples of a category-defining B2B SaaS company emerging from Southern Europe and selling into the operational backbone of modern companies. It is especially relevant for startups and scale-ups managing distributed teams, customer travel, and cross-border expansion.
Athens, Greece · Startup Welcome Pickups is an Athens-based travel technology company offering personalised airport transfers and in-destination travel experiences. Founded in 2015 by Alexandros Trimis and Savvas Georgiou, the platform lets travelers pre-book rides at fixed prices and combines transfers with additional in-destination services. It operates across more than 100 destinations and partners with hotels, airlines and travel agencies to handle guest transfers. In December 2022 it raised a €5.3 million round led by Market One Capital, Flashpoint and Venture Friends to expand its destination network.