TravelinAI takes top APAC prize as AI travel tech dominates Singapore summit
TravelinAI, a next-generation enterprise journey reserving platform, got here away because the first-ever winner of the inaugural run of the World Enterprise Journey Affiliation (GBTA)’s VentureConnect initiative within the Asia Pacific.
The announcement was made yesterday,thirteenth Might, on the second day of the GBTA APAC Convention 2026 on the Sands Expo and Conference Centre in Singapore.
Founder Roy Golden stated of the platform: “Our imaginative and prescient is to create an expertise which is able to really mirror on how individuals reside and work and journey.”
Previous to this most up-to-date victory, TravelinAI was named among the many high 4 international innovators by the German Enterprise Journey Affiliation and the platform was named the Most Disruptive Journey expertise at the newest World Journey Market.
Golden added: “We have additionally been very lucky to be handpicked by Sabre to launch globally.”
GBTA’s VentureConnect seeks to deliver collectively promising journey tech startups with potential buyers, journey consumers, and company leaders, thus creating alternatives for significant suggestions, collaboration, and development all through the enterprise journey sector.
Three major advantages
Golden likewise identified that TravelinAI accords three potential advantages to company journey managers.
As he defined: “One is to avoid wasting time, so journey administration corporations can now launch clients inside minutes as a substitute of a number of weeks or a number of months.”
Finish-users can really use the platform even with out prior coaching, enabling them to guide journeys with simply three clicks.
The second end result is management by real-time spend dashboards, finances setting, approval processes and journey insurance policies with built-in DTF care and a versatile structure which may be customised for the particular necessities of every end-user.
The third finish is a split-payment expertise that permits staff to mix their enterprise and leisure journeys in a single reserving move.
In accordance with Golden: “Via our break up cost system, we are able to determine and separate all of the bills between enterprise and leisure for flights and resorts.”
Opening doorways to disruptive considering for higher enterprise journey
Previous to the announcement, Golden joined seven different journey tech corporations / startups in pitching their improvements to convention individuals.
Every agency was given 90 seconds to current their concepts and the ideas ranged from pilgrimage tech for Indonesia’s large hajj and umrah markets to a complete banking app particularly developed for enterprise travellers.
Other than the successful innovator, the inaugural roster of disruptive applied sciences for GBTA APAC included the next:
- TruTrip, a complete journey reserving engine that includes an clever choice layer and local-first infrastructure;
- Tripper Journey, an answer for in-sector fragmentation that options SofiaAI, an AI-native journey assistant;
- Orcar, a cellular utility that takes the stress out of automotive leases and reserving flights and resorts;
- Zenia by Zenmer, an agentic AI for the post-OBT period;
- Travogpay, a complete expense card for enterprise journey;
- BuzzAI’s pilgrimage platform which powers journey preparations and funds, particularly for the Indonesian market; and
- Zentrum Reserving Agent which has only one API that hand deal with over 100 suppliers and might go reside in as early as 15 days.