FX optimisation Flight ancillaries Closed user group rates AI agents AI trip builder Content pooling Video content Hotel vouchers

What travel tech to build, what to buy, what is coming. SaaS.travel can be of service.

Online travel agencies and tour operators come to us with ambitious roadmaps, and we bring them real travel tech solutions that fit. The vendors we have selected get something in return that is hard to find: long term partnerships with sellers who want to grow. Travit.ai, our own platform, keeps a radar on 4,100 travel technology solutions, so all of us see what is coming.

Let's start with your roadmap.

Most travel tech conversations start with a vendor who wants to show you a demo. Ours start with you. We want to know where your product, IT and commercial teams want to be in eighteen months, and what challenges they face today. Then we come back to you with solutions. Sometimes that is one of the vendors we represent. Sometimes it is something we build with partners because the right answer does not exist yet. And sometimes the honest answer is that you should not change anything for now.

A view of the whole market

Through Travit.ai we follow more than 4,100 travel technology solutions. We know what your competition is looking at, which solutions are live with real customers and which ones have poor user experiences.

Someone who understands the stack

Supply, distribution, payments, ancillaries, dynamic packaging, content. We know how these connect inside an OTA or a tour operator, and where a change in one place pays off somewhere else.

Vendors that have been vetted

The vendors we represent went through our strict selection process before you ever hear their name. More on that below.

One contact, many solutions

A single person who knows your business and brings you the next relevant option before you have to go looking for it.

We represent a select group of vendors. Getting in is the hard part.

SaaS.travel realises signed partnerships in Europe, South East Asia and China. We do not take every vendor that asks. Vendors apply, we check, and we say no more often than we say yes. That is what makes a yes worth something.

  1. Locally connected commercial support from day one

    No hiring, no training, no learning the hard way how travel sellers buy.

  2. Conversations that are already happening

    We are not knocking on doors for you. We are already talking to travel sellers about their roadmap and challenges. Your solution comes in as an answer to a question they asked, not as a pitch.

  3. Signed partnerships, not introductions

    We support the full commercial cycle: presentation, negotiation, integration and launch.

Every vendor we represent went through this first.

Travel sellers keep taking our calls because we do not present them with half ready solutions. So before we represent a vendor, we put them through a selection process. It is not complicated, but it is strict, and most applicants do not get through.

  1. Application

    The vendor shares company background, including ownership structure, funding stage and an introduction to the founding team.

  2. Solution check

    We look at the solution ourselves: consumer experience, technical assessment, operational processes.

  3. Reference call

    We speak with an existing travel trade customer of the vendor. Not a case study, a phone call.

  4. Fit with our travel sellers

    We only work with vendors if we can already name the travel sellers who would benefit. We do not work with unproven prototypes.

  5. Commitment check

    Is the founder or commercial lead available? Are they able to serve demanding clients and scale quickly?

  6. Decision

    If we commit to a collaboration, our endorsement carries your solution into plenty of travel seller roadmap discussions.

A good fit

  • A live product or service with at least several paying travel trade customers
  • Clear value for OTAs, tour operators or B2B intermediaries: supply, distribution, payments, ancillaries, packaging or content
  • Ready to integrate via API or an intermediate connection
  • A founder or commercial lead who is willing to go the extra mile for customer satisfaction

Not a fit (yet)

  • Pre product or pre revenue
  • Consumer only proposition with no B2B angle
  • Expecting new partnerships within a quarter

If we introduce a vendor, this is what they went through to get there.

Why travel sellers take our calls

Our recommendations get taken seriously

When we suggest a travel seller should look at a solution, they usually do. Not because we push, but because we have been careful about what we recommend for a long time. We intend to keep it that way, so we are strict about what goes into the portfolio.

We sat on all sides of the table

We have founded and scaled our own OTAs, worked at tour operators and at travel tech vendors, and we understand what is really needed to make a partnership work. That makes the conversation shorter and the outcome better for both travel sellers and vendors.

We look past the consumer brand

Many travel sellers also run a wholesale unit, a bedbank or a distribution platform. We think about the whole commercial footprint, because that is where most of the value sits.

We are in the market, in person

The travel trade is a people business that meets at industry events and around the table. So do we. No call or virtual demo replaces personal contact.

Track record, not promises.

Payments

A European tour operator group needed multi currency supplier payments across nine markets. We matched them with a payments platform from our portfolio. Live in two months.

Flight content

A global flight OTA needed specific low cost carrier content it could not source directly. Signed and integrated in six months, and still going strong after more than three years.

Hotel distribution

A German tour operator with fragmented hotel information management. We introduced a product information management solution built for travel.

Ancillaries

A UK leisure OTA looking for new perks. Two ancillary products from our portfolio added to the booking flow. Great customer feedback and stickiness.

Closed user group hotel deals

A closed user group OTA wanted to scale beyond its direct hotel contracts. We connected them to the market leading hotel deal aggregator for the crypto community. New supply, new audience, one integration.

Bespoke

A Polish tour operator with a requirement nobody in our portfolio covered. We scoped it with two partners and delivered a custom integration.

Travit.ai

More than 4,100 travel technology solutions, in one place.

We built Travit.ai because travel sellers kept asking us the same question: what is out there? It is a comparison platform where OTAs, tour operators and TMCs search travel technology by category, compare solutions and get in touch with vendors. It is free to use.

For us it is also a radar. It shows what travel sellers across the globe are searching for right now, which categories are getting busy and which vendors are gaining ground. We use that to advise the travel sellers we work with, and to decide which vendors we want to represent next.

Search Travit.ai

Travit.ai saves us tonnes of time and drives better decision-making.

CEO, online travel agency

This is a great starting point for searching new travel tech solutions.

CSO, tour operator

Great platform to find the latest and greatest travel tech vendors.

CEO, online travel agency

Who you will be dealing with.

Founded in 2021, SaaS.travel is built on more than 100 years of collective travel industry experience. Our team of senior travel industry professionals connects innovative travel tech solutions with a trusted network of travel trade partners.

Freek Veldman

Freek Veldman, MSc

Founder & CEO

More than 18 years across large and small travel businesses, and 12 years as a travel tech entrepreneur.

David Petrovic

David Petrovic

Co-Founder

Over ten years in the air travel industry. Held leadership roles at a leading online travel agency, including Head of Global Distribution and Head of FinTech.

Jingkui Shi

Jingkui Shi (Stone)

Co-Founder

Over twenty years in air travel, across airlines and OTAs. Based in Beijing. Former General Manager China for a leading online travel agency, with earlier roles at two major airlines.

Lukas Hovorka

Lukas Hovorka

Senior Partner

Over twenty years in air travel, across airlines and OTAs. Based in Thailand. Former Regional Head for APAC at a leading online travel agency, with earlier roles at two international airlines.

Let's talk about your roadmap.

Travel sellers. Tell us what your product, IT or commercial teams are trying to solve. We will tell you what we know and whether a solution we know can bring value to you.

Vendors. Apply to be represented. Fill in the form, and we will set up a 30 minute call to start our selection process.

Or email us directly: info@saas.travel

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