Israel Travel Tech Startups

26/10/2023

RESILIENCE, AGILITY, and BOLDNESS have always defined us, and today is no different.

Throughout past challenges and crises, Israeli tech has showcased its remarkable ability to MAINTAIN BUSINESS CONTINUITY and INNOVATION, and the entrepreneurial community of the Startup Nation has consistently ADAPTED and THRIVED.

Our ecosystem and experienced tech leaders know how to navigate obstacles and emerge stronger. Even throughout the current crisis, offices are OPEN, most of the workforce remains active, and companies have ADJUSTED to deliver top-notch services to clients worldwide.

Israeli tech companies are agile, swiftly prioritizing tasks and maintaining everyday operations, ensuring that innovation won't stop.

And we're not alone. With over 450 multinationals operating in Israel, innovating together, supporting, and investing in our success, the future for Israeli innovation remains BRIGHT.

We at ITTS believe that the story of our local community is one of RESILIENCE and unwavering DETERMINATION, and we're committed to continuing our journey of innovation, come what may.

16/05/2023

16/05/2023

סאו פאולו ופורטו אלגרה בברזיל. אוטוטו. חיבורים יתקבלו בברכה.

15/12/2022

Innovate Israel is expanding and is looking for new opportunities for collaboration.

Portugal is a unique, strategic location at the crossroads of Europe and the Americas, which makes it an attractive location for international collaboration and networking.

Likewise, Portugal enjoys a highly educated and skilled workforce with a strong tradition of innovation and creativity, a stable and business-friendly environment, and various incentives and support programs available to help companies grow and succeed.
These factors make Portugal an excellent choice for open innovation endeavours.

Our founder, Mr. Itai Green, will be visiting Portugal between January 11 and 14 in order to conduct a series of meetings. If you wish to make an appointment, you may contact him through these channels:

Email - [email protected]
LinkedIn - https://lnkd.in/dxTjVX6G
WhatsApp - +972 50-549-6655

If this might be relevant for some of your contacts, please share and help spread the word. We will be happy to be in touch, collaborate and innovate together.

13/12/2022

Innovate Israel is expanding and is looking for new opportunities for collaboration.

The UK has long been considered one of the most innovative countries on the globe; ranked fourth on the 2022 Global Innovation Index, and with over half of all its R&D business expenditure coming from foreign-owned companies, it is a prime location for open innovation and partnerships.

Our founder, Mr. Itai Green will be visiting the UK between March 30 and April 15 in order to conduct a series of meetings. If you wish to make an appointment, you may contact him through these channels:

Email - [email protected]
LinkedIn - https://lnkd.in/dxTjVX6G
WhatsApp - +972 50-549-6655

If this might be relevant for some of your contacts, please share and help spread the word. We will be happy to be in touch, collaborate and innovate together.

30/09/2022

We hope more hoteliers will follow

01/08/2022

We are excited to present to you - ! 👋



Their mission is to help the Travel industry cope with FX currency volatility and turn risk into certainty.



With many Travel industry players operating at single digit net profit margins, and FX volatility rising globally, multi-currency exposure is whiplashing providers and wiping out profit margins completely.



Yet many Travel industry players have limited tools to mitigate this risk - this is where Grain can help protect your business and save you substantial money.



Their FX-hedging-as-a-service technology enables Travel industry players to:



⏱️ Lock rates seamlessly on future payables or receivables at highly disruptive price points (up to 5X cheaper than available through your bank or broker)

⏱️ Eliminate the need to convert your home currency to foreign currency to pay international suppliers or receive customer payments

⏱️ Negate the use of expensive international wires for cross border payments

⏱️ Understand and measure your FX exposure to decide how to protect yourself automatically through a self-service module or by integrating automatically into your Travel ERP system



Grain is currently helping bed-bank marketplaces, software application providers, agents and tour operators save 5% to 7% on average per international order paid or received.



They reduce your risk, while adding certainty to your business.



Contact them for more information.

Visit Grain here: www.grainfinance.co

https://il.linkedin.com/company/grainfinance

28/07/2022

So, what do you do when you travel, and want to understand the full story behind a beautiful historic building or an impressive monument? What do you do when you want to enjoy the nightlife and local cuisine, but at your own pace? Every traveler reaches a certain point when they want a guided tour or information, but they either don’t want to do that with a large group of travelers, or they don’t want to pay for a private tour guide that can be super pricey! Dguide developed a self-guided tour app that any traveler can enjoy at any time, using their smartphone. History, culinary, graffiti and nightlife tours are all launched through the first ever tour creation platform by some of the best tour guides and content creators, who enjoy a wide audience as a result, the kind of travelers who aren’t interested in touring with large groups. After they’ve sold hundreds of tours around Israel with no marketing budget, using a special marketing technique, they want to implement this app in other countries who have a bigger tourism potential than Israel. To do that, they are now seeking funding, so that they could hit other markets, using their brilliant crew that helped them make it in Israel with their efficient marketing plan and with no budget.

Would you be interested in further details? they would love to schedule an appointment with you. Leave a message: [email protected]

26/04/2022

We are excited to share that Smiling House luxury , a member of ITTS community has been nominated for THE SHORTYZ 2022 Awards, in the “Best Holiday Site Operator” category!
They need your help, in order to win.
Smiling House is a candidate for what is considered to be “the Oscars” of the hospitality industry meaning your vote is very valuable. Here is how to vote; Enter now the following link https://lnkd.in/e8xRiWZk Fill in details (does not have to be the most accurate) You have the ability to skip until the right category, make sure you don't miss category No. 20 and to select D for Smiling house. Registration closes in 3 days Thank you so much.
Moriya Rockmanan
www.smilinghouse.com

06/04/2022

Our world has dramatically changed in recent years. It can be said that the Coronavirus has affected almost every area of our lives, and few industries have experienced such significant changes as the tourism industry.

The Corona crisis, according to Itai Green, founder of the ITTS and Innovate Israel was a test point for different players, particularly in the field of tourism.

In this article, we discuses the importance of technology, innovation and startups as bridges between health and tourism.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/we-need-collaborations-instead-borders-/?trackingId=jkwdF%2FpERTyIMgovf1f97Q%3D%3D

Our world has dramatically changed in recent years. It can be said that the Coronavirus has affected almost every area of our lives, and few industries have experienced such significant changes as the tourism industry, which was drastically affected as a result of movement restrictions, tourists’ ...

31/03/2022

A few months ago, a new Minister of Tourism took office and invited Itai Green, the founder of Innovate Israel & Israel Travel Tech Startups Community to a meeting. They discussed the potential of Israeli entrepreneurs in promoting global tourism and agreed that every week he would meet a promising startup from the traveltech community, ITTS.

And so it was: Every week since then, the Minister meets entrepreneurs and promotes collaborations between traditional tourism industry players and startups so that the tourism industry will remain relevant at a time when the pace of change is so rapid.

Several weeks ago, when the Minister of Tourism was promoting the IMTM TLV Tourism Conference, he asked the organizers to meet Itai Green so that he could put together a panel on technology.

When the Minister asks, Itai immediately responds... And he approached his friend Luis Araujo, who leads Portugal's advanced tourism industry and suggested he will lead a panel on the subject. Luis immediately stepped in and said that the panel should focus on technologies that will allow the tourism world to continue operating even during a future health-related crisis like the one we were facing now.

Luis was right, this is an issue that interests governments across the globe after almost two years in which a significant percentage of their GDP has dropped and the tourism industry has stood still.

Yesterday it happened. The event was opened by Tourism Minister Yoel Rezbozov יואל רזבוזוב - Yoel Razvozov, followed by Luis who took the stage as a keynote speaker and then led a panel with the participation of Minister Zayed Rashid Alzayani from Bahrain, Tourism Ministry Director-General Adel el Fakir from Morocco, Vice Minister Vicas Jurgutis from the Republic of Lithuania and Deputy Division Director Adam Cutler from Israel.

After the panel, Itai presented how Open Innovation, the ability to collaborate with external parties is critical for success. The more organizations collaborate with others, particularly with members of academia and startups, the faster can solutions be assimilated.

Then, led by Roberto Antunes, the head of NEST Centro de Inovação do Turismo, 10 startups took the stage and presented creative solutions from the worlds of traveltech, healthtech, data, homeland security, virtual reality and automation which are very relevant in order to ensure the continued functioning of the tourism industry during such crises.

In the picture - the Minister of Tourism and Itai Green, moments before the opening of the panel.
Ministry of Tourism