Travel 2.0 Israeli Project
From various reasons I decided to get in touch with other israeli web travel startups. I’ll share some of my imressions.
Tripcart is a trip planner focused in US. We wrote about them and our visit there a few months ago.
A quite similar project is TripWiser. They also started with the USA but now they cover other worldwide destinations. They are based in the west coast, but the entrepreneurs are Israelis, so we are counting them as well. Even their US (compete) traffic graphs look quite similar to Tripcart.
Codeshare took a different direction. They started with a web service that was called Bemember. We found out about them in our early days and were afraid that our ideas were ’stolen’. Later they decided to approach the accommodation industry. Their main product is called Comcierge Lounge, it offers travel information and services to hotel guests.
There are 2 companies who take the B2B2C concept.
Ticketad is quite a veteran, offering local events and attraction to their partner’s clients. will be interesting to see their upcoming new version.
I think the newest project is Truvle. They offer travel agencies revising the boring e-ticket and making it a marketing platform.
And don’t forget our project, TripTouch a widget based travel homepage covering 5,200 worlwide destinations with best of the web content and services.
I think it’s not surprising to see so many Israeli travel services, because Israelis love to travel and many of them have the entrepreneurship spirit.
Personally, talking to all of these guys, I think they are all talented and nice people. I wish us all the best of luck. and maybe, as one (potential) investor told me, a consolidation of some kind can be beneficial.
Well, that’s a challenge.