Vibe Adventures is redefining how travelers discover and book multi-day adventure travel. Founded by travel industry professionals, the company is built on deep industry expertise and a simple belief: the biggest barrier to meaningful travel isn’t a lack of experiences, but the complexity of booking them. Travelers can find great multi-day tours, but pairing them with affordable, convenient flights often requires hours of manual research across multiple platforms—erasing the perceived deal once flights are added.
Vibe Adventures was created to solve this through technology. Rather than operating tours, the company is building a travel-tech platform that dynamically combines organized multi-day adventure tours with real-time flight availability. The result is a single, seamless booking flow where travelers can instantly see the best-value tour-and-flight combinations—without juggling tabs, dates, or pricing.
“Our goal is to remove booking fatigue,” said Alex Veka, Founder & CEO of Vibe Adventures. “People know the kind of trips they want—immersive, experience-driven, and well organized—but the tools to book them efficiently haven’t existed. We’re building that infrastructure.”
The platform connects to a global inventory of thousands of multi-day tours across 160+ countries, together with global flight options, enabling travelers to compare and book complete adventure packages in minutes. It’s built for travelers who want more than traditional beach holidays, while still valuing simplicity, transparency, and price efficiency.
As the company scales, Vibe Adventures sees industry collaboration as essential. By joining Travel Tech’s Start-Up Membership Program, the team is connecting with distribution partners, technology providers, and like-minded innovators to help build the future of adventure travel booking.
“Travel Tech provides a powerful ecosystem for shared learning, product collaboration, and meaningful partnerships,” said Alex Veka. “Being part of this community helps us accelerate our mission to make adventure travel easier and more accessible for everyone.”
Move Freely, Travel Light: How BaggageTAXI is Changing the Way We Journey
For many travelers, the first or last day of a trip comes with a familiar dilemma: What do I do with my luggage? BaggageTAXI offers a seamless solution—on-demand baggage pickup, secure storage, and delivery—so you can explore freely without being weighed down. Just book online or tap the app, and we’ll meet you at the airport, hotel, cruise port, or anywhere in between. Your bags are picked up, stored safely, and delivered exactly when and where you need them—even hours later or in a different city entirely.
Founded by Tristan Sommer-Enriquez, BaggageTAXI is building the world’s first on-demand pick-up, storage and delivery tech-first platform and global ambition of the uberization of baggage. After tripling growth in the UAE this year, the company is now expanding into the U.S., Netherlands and German market and is also operational in the U.K., bringing its time-saving service to a broader base of international travelers.
“We want to change how people think about travel logistics,” says Sommer-Enriquez. “When you book your trip, and you see: check-in is at 3 PM, but you land at 10 AM—your first thought should be: BaggageTAXI it.”
The platform doesn’t just serve travelers—it also supports the hospitality industry. Hotels and short-term rentals use BaggageTAXI to streamline operations, accommodate early arrivals and late checkouts, reduce liability, and enhance the overall guest experience. BaggageTAXI is also guest favorite for short and long term storage, with the ease of having their items delivered to airports or doorsteps.
As a new Travel Tech Advocate Member, BaggageTAXI values exposure to the global travel tech network and access to investors and partners who can help accelerate growth. “Travel Tech is the perfect place to build relationships that push our vision forward,” Sommer-Enriquez adds.
Ready to travel baggage-free? Explore our service or book your first pickup at BaggageTAXI.com.
Hotel cancellations and attrition don’t just impact the hospitality industry—they ripple through airlines, rideshare services, restaurants, and local economies, contributing to an estimated $200 billion in economic losses each year. Former hotel executive Teresa Guastella founded RoomRite to help solve that problem by transforming unused inventory into opportunity.
RoomRite is a B2B platform that connects hotels and hospitality professionals to either buy or sell hotel room inventory. By creating a smarter, more flexible way to manage supply and demand, RoomRite helps reduce cancellations, minimize revenue loss, offers a dashboard with important data, helps hotels with more ancillary opportunities, new business leads, and keeping more rooms filled.
“There are a lot of start-up communities — but travel is different,” said Teresa Guastella, Founder and CEO of RoomRite. “Through Travel Tech’s Advocate Member Program, it’s refreshing to be in the room and sit at the table with people who truly understand the industry and where it’s headed. That’s where the creative conversations happen.”
With AI and social media quickly taking over the travel industry, Nowy makes it easy to connect content online and travel planning.
Nowy is the first and only travel app that helps convert social media content into personalized, bookable travel itineraries that help simplify the travel planning process, saving travelers time and money. Nowy helps to address the information overload when travel planning by using AI to do the “dummy” work and keep the traveler in charge of the decision-making process.
“The goal of Nowy is to help inspire extraordinary travel experiences and provide a one-stop shop for travelers to get ideas with complete planning in one place,” explained Branda Fan, Founder and CEO of Nowy.
“As a start-up, one of the most important things to us is community and we are excited to join Travel Tech’s Advocate Member Program for that reason,” Fan said. “We look forward to networking with other travel founders, start-ups and experts to learn how to reach different audiences, understand various sectors and stay up-to-date on the latest policy and industry trends.”
At its core DCX Travel & Technology (DCX) is about making business travel easy, convenient, and fun.
Frustrated by the large corporate travel platforms’ lack of innovation and flexibility to solve individual customer needs, Lisa Simpkins founded DCX to be a different type of travel agency and technology platform. Lisa wanted to meet business travelers where they were, allowing them to book flights directly from airline platforms and then leverage the power of DCX to streamline, manage, and maximize their trip. DCX is a traveler-centric platform that offers transparency and customization, using the latest technology. By leveraging technology, including AI, DCX is building a more efficient, affordable and enjoyable travel experience.
UCPlaces was born out of a need to streamline the touring experience. Uri Sperling, Founder and CEO, spent years traveling the world and dealing with the burdens of navigating the tour guide experience – it was expensive, it wasn’t customizable and tour times were often at the whims of the tour guide company.
Launched in 2020, UCPlaces was originally designed for tour guides to create and sell GPS-guided tours. In the years since starting his operation, Sperling has worked with tourism and service industry companies like hotels and airlines to craft tours all over the world. Users participate in the tour through their phones, which results in a fully customizable experience that focuses on the user journey. Using UCPlaces, travelers can take tours in almost any language, on their schedule and at their pace. “UCPlaces is not only a service provider,” Sperling said, “but a community builder where people can create, share and sell experiences, these experiences are what inspire travelers to go places to begin with.”
“We’re still a small company,” Uri noted. “We feel that we are spearheading new technology in the industry, but with the exponential growth of travelers taking these guided tours on our platform, we believe that in just a few years, almost every traveler with a smartphone will be using their phone to take guided tours and we’re excited to have the influence and might of Travel Tech in our corner.”
Wednesday, May 20, 2026 — The Travel Technology Association (Travel Tech), a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting and protecting the travel technology industry, will honor Rep. Rick Larsen (D-WA), Ranking Member of the House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee, and Rep. Young Kim (R-CA) with Travel Tech’s Innovation Leadership Award at its third annual Policy & Innovation […]
