Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2024: Acai Travel

Acai Travel

Acai
Travel offers a suite of large language model-based travel operation optimization products
to a diverse range of travel call centers, including travel management companies, online travel agencies, airlines,
hotels and banks.

Our
solutions empower clients to restructure their call centers with flexible
setups and aim for up to 60% reduction in average handle time, effectively
cutting operational costs in half.

Founders Riccardo Vittoria and Henry chen Weinstein

Strategic goals for 2024

By the end
of 2024, we want our product suite to be integrated and operational with 20-plus
clients. At the beginning
of 2024, we are releasing three products:

• Blueberry: a travel-specific knowledge management system. This is an agent’s
  best friend that can help with any of the complicated travel operations issues.
• Raspberry: a chat and email automation software that operates in both
  auto-pilot and co-pilot modes, aiding agents in processing informational and
  transactional queries in half the time.
• Strawberry: a GDS overlay in natural language, allowing anyone to service
  transactions without prior GDS training.

For
instance, a TMC, with our products, can redesign call centers to be account,
language and GDS agnostic while also cutting the average handle time in half.

Lessons learned since founding

We
have a rich history in the travel industry, including selling a previous
company to American Express GBT that specialized in AI software for TMC
operations. We’ve also been investing in travel for over a decade and were the
founders of Travel Tech Nation, a platform that connects travel executives. 

Although
we’ve been deeply involved in travel technology and operations for years and
have a strong understanding of what works and what doesn’t, we continually
discover new use cases for our products, thanks to great feedback from our
clients and prospects. They often have genius ideas.

Additionally,
while we initially thought that tailoring our products to different types of
travel companies would require significant investments, we’ve found that
challenges are very similar across segments and LLMs are very versatile. We can
build machine learning algorithms at a fraction of the cost we used to build AI
for, so we can quickly adapt to any call center’s needs.