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Travel startups. How programmers on a trillionth market are lured: kofounders, vacancies, hackathons

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Yandex, Rambler, Qiwi outlined flags in the area of ​​travel services. The movement around the travel market is gaining momentum, and many are not shy and use the expression next big thing.

To listen
November 26, a conference on travel start-ups starts, where you can try your hand and listen to concentrated analytics from experts and practitioners, find out what is happening in the domestic tourism market. More people will rest soon
in Russia, but is the market ready for this? What happens to travel startups and how do key market players react to this?
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To drive
December 4, 5 and 6 you can come to Hack'n'Roll with your project or as a free participant. Get an introduction to the challenges facing the tourism industry. To propose a solution and prove in 3 days that it is viable.

Get ready
As a DZ - this article, in 10-20 minutes to understand what is in demand in the world and which IT specialists are in great demand.

Here are just some ideas for travel startups that I found during the preparation of the article: Uber for sailboats, Airbnb for boats, guides, volunteers, mobile guides and assistants, tickets and check-in at the last hour for discounts, sharing their routes, networking for entrepreneurs while traveling, a virtual incubator of travel start-ups, earning points for settling guests, carsharing for travelers, unique User eXperience while traveling, gastronomic features, buying duty-free goods even before passing passports control, augmented reality (owners of smartphones can see historical sights as they were originally), iron start-ups (screwing the GoPro to a smartphone), cross-hostel services, etc.

Under the cut a selection of travel startups (including useful and for remote), which you can look at and make conclusions for yourself, a list of vacancies to understand which programmers the industry needs, as well as descriptions of several (past) hackathons.

Travel startups



Y combinator
Out of 700 Y Combinator startups, I dug out 9 travel startups:


Top Lists


Jobs


You may find a job for yourself or you will understand who you will have to look for in your team.

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Travel Startups Incubator . Global travel technology incubator.
CTO ($ 1,000- $ 3,000 / month), 20-40 hrs / week, New York City. Node JS, Python / Django, Redis, PostgreSQL, MongoDB.


image Wander Travel for the next generation.


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Zupp . Carpooling mobile application
Android Developer, Backend Engineer (₹ 500k - ₹ 1500k), Full Time, Mumbai.

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MeTripping Technologies . Travel trip planning & trip management
Founding Team Full-Stack Developer (₹ 0k - ₹ 1200k) Full Time, Bangalore. Python, C ++, Java, Javascript.

image Tripoto . The Global Community of Travelers (Tripadvisor 2.0 - Interactive, UGC Itineraries)


image Roadtrippers . Travel planning platform. Discovery, booking, and navigation all from the map


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Oh hey world . Open source location sharing platform

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Ace Travel .
Reinventing travel through high tech, high touch, 21st century planning platform.
Cofounder / Head of Technology ($ 70k - $ 150k) Cofounder, San Francisco. HTML, Node.js, Drupal, HubSpot

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Rocketrip . Smarter business travel.
Senior Full-stack Software Engineer ($ 90k - $ 160k) Full Time, New York City. Python, HTML, jQuery, Django.

image Headout . HotelTonight for Tours & Travel Experiences


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Zipkick Personalize travel plans, instantly
CTO Cofounder, San Francisco. Back End Programming, Mobile Development, Databases, Front-End Development.

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Hackatons (past)



Emirates

294 hackers | 24 hours | 57 hacks
TZ: create a web or mobile application in any language and under any platform. Products must be within the scope of travel.
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Photos from Hackathon

Saber Travel Network & 33entrepreneurs

£ 10,000 Grand Prize
Evaluation Criteria: Technical Quality: 25%, Design: 25%, Potential: 25%, Originality: 25%
TK: Do anything (website, application, piece of iron) that will “turn” the market or the way of travel.
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Skypicker and tripomatic

TZ: create a working prototype using big data API from Skypicker and Tripomatic.
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Island

Competition for the creation of a recommendation system. Prize - 15,000 rubles (and three incentive prizes of 5,000 rubles each)

#tceh
On November 26, we invited representatives of popular Russian online travel companies to an open event to find the answer to the question: what are we going to do?

Speakers:

Zakhar Korneev - directs the direction of distribution and work with affiliate partners in one of the most rapidly developing and discussed services for booking hotels Ostrovok.ru. For a long time he worked in the hotel industry, now he is engaged in the search for partners around the world and the development of the company.


Valentin Dombrovsky is a serial entrepreneur, a leading alchemist of Travelabs. Since 2011, he has developed a Travelatus travel startup, went to StartupYard accelerator with him, and in 2013 sold the project to colleagues from Excursiopedia. Founder of the Travel Startups and Travel Startups Intl.

Media about travel startups

70% of experienced Internet users in Russia have never used the services of online travel services. This was realized by investors who are pouring many millions into travel projects.


UPD:

On December 4, 5 and 6, the Hack'n'Roll hakaton for travel startups .

Rosturizm launches the National Tourism Portal (NTP) - a project of federal scale. NTP is actively developing and is designed to stimulate domestic and inbound tourism, providing access to extensive information on sights, historical and cultural features, etc.

The API has been specifically designed for the NTP, with which this information can be applied in its own projects under the terms of using open data.

The main task: to take the API and find it the most effective application to travel around Russia has become easier, more comfortable and more interesting.

For whom it will be useful:

Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/270971/

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