Amadeus Next offers startups access to technology, expertise, customers, and funding through a community of partners committed to travel tech innovation. Through the partnership, Tripoto will receive access to travel search and booking data as well as Amadeus’ technology.
BANGKOK – Online Travel Community & Social Network Tripoto has joined the Amadeus Next community – an initiative by the global travel technology leader Amadeus to foster a travel tech startup community in the Asia Pacific region.
Amadeus Next offers startups access to technology, expertise, customers, and funding through a community of partners committed to travel tech innovation. Through the partnership, Tripoto will receive access to travel search and booking data as well as Amadeus’ technology. Tripoto looks to deepen their Artificial Intelligence (AI) and to build a more personalised solution for its user base, in partnership with Amadeus. Tripoto is also looking to enable end to end holiday planning and transactions on the platform.
“We have one of the richest sources of UGC travel data available at Tripoto. The partnership with Amadeus enables us to enhance our data and also leverage their technology to build upon our existing solutions. Amadeus Next has the potential to tremendously accelerate tech innovation in travel in the APAC region, and we are happy to be part of this vibrant community“, says Anirudh Gupta – Co-Founder & CEO, Tripoto.
Simon Akeroyd, VP, Corporate Strategy and Business Development at Amadeus Asia Pacific commented, “Tripoto is offering something really exciting to the travel industry – a virtual travel concierge service which pulls content from various sources. Artificial Intelligence can change the future of personalisation, and it’s great to work with Tripoto and support them on their journey.”
Tripoto was founded by IIT Delhi & ISB alumni Anirudh Gupta & Michael Lyngdoh in September 2013. The startup is a social platform to share and discover travel destinations. It has the largest curated source of user-generated travel itineraries with around 300,000 itineraries, created through its web and mobile publishing platforms. More than 2 million travellers use the platform every month and the online community has a cumulative reach of 15 million travellers across platforms. Tripoto is funded by IDG Ventures.
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