Travelouts Inc
Travelouts Inc.
Travelouts Inc. is an online travel booking platform founded in 2021 and headquartered in New Jersey. The privately-held company operates an intuitive, customizable enabling customers to efficiently search, compare and reserve flights, hotels, rental cars, cruises and multi-stop trips worldwide. As a travel metasearch site, Travelouts aggregates availability and real-time pricing from major travel suppliers including airline companies, hotel chains and rental car brands. The platform aims to simplify end-to-end trip planning through innovative use of data, machine learning and API technology integrations. Travelouts was co-founded by veteran travel industry expert and technologist Pinki Kumar, who serves as the company's CEO. With backing from venture capital firms, Travelouts has focused on strategic partnerships alongside a strong engineering culture and customer-centric business model to drive exponential growth since launch.
Platform and Products
The Travelouts website represent intuitive, visually-driven interfaces to plan and book trips. Customers first indicate their destination and intended dates of travel. Dynamic searching then identifies flight routes across departure airports, airlines and stopover options along with applicable accommodation properties and local ground transportation vendors. Travel search results get organized on a personalized dashboard highlighting best recommendations based on price, ratings or trip style preferences set by customers. Final booking seamlessly combines selections across transportation, lodging, cars and verified local excursions into a complete, integrated itinerary covered under Travelouts Best Price Guarantee. Post-booking, the Travelouts platform facilitates easy modifications, cancellations, credits and customer support via a unified dashboard instead of needing to manage each supplier individually. Real-time notifications alert customers to suggested itinerary optimizations like cheaper newly added flights. Every booking comes covered by the company’s Trip Protection Program for delays, interruptions and cancellations. The service comes free for basic listing searches and bookings. A Travelouts Premium paid subscription tier removes advertisements and adds more detailed results filters, exclusive sale access and a dedicated Concierge travel agent for customized consultation. Major investors behind Travelouts include Sequoia Capital, Inovia and Bessemer Venture Partners.
History
Travel industry veteran Pinki Kumar founded Travelouts in 2021. Kumar spent 15 years leading digital product design and customer experience strategy for legacy travel brands prior to launching Travelouts after securing pre-seed funding via VC firm Hyperplane Ventures. Since going live in Q4 2021 after 12 months of development, Travelouts has experienced high double-digit user and transaction growth quarter-over-quarter among both US-based and global travelers. The company is projected to facilitate several billion dollars in gross travel bookings within the next three years. Travelouts raised its Series B financing in June 2022, bringing total capital raised to over $2 million. Kumar stated funding focuses on customer acquisition through marketing alongside developing proprietary algorithms fortifying the company’s dynamic customization capabilities for trip planning and in-journey support.
Company Culture & Impact
Travelouts leadership encourages an entrepreneurial, innovative working environment still aligned to strong engineering principles and putting consumer value creation first. The company looks to diversify its 250+ global employees across functions like Travel expert, customer support, voice and chat support, design and travel agent support. Despite fast-scaling operations, Travelouts maintains an intimate startup team culture through unique bonding events like yearly international meetup trips. The company also provides employees unlimited personal vacation time after one year of tenure to align internal policies with cherishing world travel. In terms of social impact, Travelouts has committed to achieving net carbon neutrality across its corporate operations through purchased offsets. As part of the Greener Travel initiative, the website also lets customers opt-in to track and offset carbon emissions specifically associated with booked flights and hotel stays too at no added cost. The Travelouts brand promises today's travelers flexibility and modern convenience at all stages of trip planning, booking and execution - an omnichannel experience managed intuitively via any device. With seasoned travel industry leadership plus continued investment in evolving its data-led, customizable vacation bundles for personalized lifestyle needs, Travelouts sits poised to compete strongly alongside leading traditional OTAs while shaping industry focus on dynamic trip curation.
