WTTC Startup of the Year 2025

The platform that knows why people travel. 

TravelNet's EmotionTech platform matches travelers to experiences by how they want to feel, giving travel businesses a way to reach their natural audience without OTAs, commissions, or ad spend.
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WTTC Startup of the Year 2025

The platform that knows
why people travel.

TravelNet's EmotionTech platform matches travelers to experiences by how they want to feel, giving travel businesses a way to reach their natural audience without OTAs, commissions, or ad spend.
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Trusted by global travel brands

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THE STRUCTURAL PROBLEM

The industry's most expensive problem isn't running operations. It's losing travelers you already worked hard to earn.

The entire industry, OTAs, hotels, tours, destinations, competes for the 3% of travelers who are ready to book right now. The 97% who are open to inspiration are ignored. That's not a marketing problem. It's a structural one.

WHERE EVERYBODY IS COMPETING
3%
of travelers are "ready to book" right now.
WHERE TRAVELNET PLAYS
97%
are open to inspiration, and nobody is talking to them.

The industry built its entire playbook around 3%. We built ours for the 97%.


0%
of your guests never come back. They check out, leave a 5-star review, and disappear forever, to a destination you'll never know.

$0B+
spent annually by OTAs to intercept the same travelers you're already paying to acquire. You fund the middleman that taxes you 25%.

+0%
rise in travel CAC since 2022. You spend more every year to reach the same traveler, while the Lifetime Traveler Value barely moves.
HOW THE ALLIANCE WORKS

Three steps. Demand that grows and compounds while you sleep. 

Members capture travelers using shared lead-gen tools. The matching engine pairs travelers with the right offer, the right business, at the right moment. Every member shares demand. Every member benefits.

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Capture
A QR on your check-in desk. A widget on your booking page. A Dream Trip in your newsletter. The traveler scans and in that small, almost invisible moment, you've earned a credit, gained a lead, and quietly fed the entire alliance. The work you were already doing finally compounds in your favor.

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Match
Not a recommendation. A recognition. EmotionTech reads the traveler across 40 emotional intents and 12 preference axes, then reads your offering on the same emotional map. The result feels less like an algorithm and more like the moment a friend says, this place was made for you.Patent-pending.

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Convert
The match clicks. The traveler lands on your page, books on your engine, walks into your story, not a portal's. No commission skimmed off the top. No middleman holding the rope. Every credit you earned along the way redeems straight back into the next month of growth.

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STRATEGIC PARTNERS

No one builds an alliance alone.
These are the people who believed first.

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Awarded Most Innovative Startup of the Year by the World Travel & Tourism Council.

Presented at the Tourism Innovation Summit during the TravelTech Startup Fest, the World Travel & Tourism Council recognized our technology and business model as most innovative in global travel 2025.

EMOTION TECH - PATENT PENDING

The industry always ask where.
We ask why.

Same age, same ZIP code, same income, completely different travelers. Demographics never could have told you that. EmotionTech maps people and places on the same emotional axes, so the match isn't a guess. It's a recognition.

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Emotional intents · awe, freedom, mastery, belonging…
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Preference axes · pace, crowd tolerance, novelty, budget…
81
Travel DNA personality types
200M+
Possible profile combinations · each one unique
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Our Reviews

What Alliance Members say

Our Reviews

What Alliance Members say

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TravelNet has built incredible tools that finally make my clients’ budgets truly worthwhile!

Eddy Brosse 
Hospitality Consultant 
President Skål International Thailand

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TravelNet is the first platform that truly understands hospitality  it’s about people, feelings, and relationships.

Liz Tapiwa 
General Manager Hilton Garden Inn Nairobi 
Past President Skål International Nairobi

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TravelNet has built incredible tools that finally make my clients’ budgets truly worthwhile!

Eddy Brosse 
Hospitality Consultant 
President Skål International Thailand

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This is the most innovative platform and approach I’ve seen in years. It’s redefining how our industry creates real value.

Johan Van Schalkwyk 
Proud Tourism and Destination Professional
Commercial Officer Aquila Collection

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TravelNet is addressing real challenges in our industry, and it will bring great visibility and success to everyone who uses it.

Lars Von Der Wettern 
Hospitality Consultant 
CEO Singular Places

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After 30 years in hospitality, I rarely come across something that truly changes the game. TravelNet did.

Andres O. Hayes 
CEO Airtifae Group 
President Elect Skål International 2026

    FLAGSHIP CAMPAIGN - WIN YOUR DREAM TRIP

    The campaign the whole alliance runs together. One prize. Thousands of shared leads.

    WIN A DREAM TRIP TO GUATEMALA - LIVE NOW

    A fully funded luxury trip to Guatemala. Free to enter through any Alliance Member.

    Sponsored by the Ministry of Tourism of Guatemala. One traveler wins a trip of a lifetime. Every member wins the demand, each entry becomes a consented Alliance lead, promoted together, pooled for everyone, drawn fairly by an independent third party.

    4-star+ accommodations
    All-inclusive
    Flights included
    Random certified draw
    Free Lifetime eSIM sponsored by GigSky
    THE TRAVELNET PASS · IOS · ANDROID

    A travel app that asks who you are. Not where you're going.

    90 seconds with the Travel DNA Quiz. Instant matches across 1.5M+ indexed experiences. Cross-destination discovery so a love of Northern Lights surfaces bioluminescent kayaking in Puerto Rico. Everything staying on-device, nothing ever leaves your phone.


    Travel DNA Quiz
    Twelve photos, ninety seconds, and you'll see yourself reflected back. One of 81 traveler types that explains why some trips light you up and others fall flat.

    Camera Roll Analizer
    Let the Pass quietly read the trips you already loved (on your phone, never uploaded) and surface places around the world that feel like more of that.

    The Personalisation Slider
    Some days you want exactly what you love. Some days you want to be surprised. You decide, slide from "show me me" to "surprise me" whenever the mood changes.
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    COMMON QUESTIONS

    If you're wondering, so was everyone else.







    A travel platform built by the businesses on it.

    Not another middleman. Not another commission. The alliance is owned, governed, and grown by the members who feed it, as well as fuelled by patent pending technology.