123compare.me – EMEA Travel Innovation Award winner at Phocuswright Europe 2024

Travel industry research authority Phocuswright has announced the award winners of the latest Phocuswright Innovation Platform program Launch: EMEA, which was held June 11 during the Phocuswright Europe conference in Barcelona. 

Six innovators
presented new ideas that are set to
change the travel industry. 

Participating as judges
were:

• Bryan Batista, chief operating officer,
  Skyscanner
• Suzanna Chiu, head of
  Amadeus Ventures
• Alex Gisbert, general
  partner at Traveltech.vc
• Aaron Gowell, CEO of
  SilverRail Technologies
• Lisa Katsouraki, senior
  vice president of corporate development, Etraveli Group
• Miriam Moscovici, vice
  president of partnerships and intelligence, BCD Travel
• Timothy O’Neil-Dunne,
  principal, T2Impact

The judges selection
for the EMEA Travel Innovation Award was 123Compare.me, a competitive pricing tool that empowers hotel groups to master
room distribution by targeting and resolving online price disparities across online travel agencies, metasearch sites and bed banks.

Since the first Travel Innovation Summit in 2008, 629 innovators have now taken the stages at Phocuswright’s innovation events. This esteemed group of Phocuswright Innovation alumni has brought
countless innovations to the market, with 466 of them have raised
funding adding up to over €9.3 billion collectively, and 113 have been acquired. 

View all
of this year’s innovators and the alumni here. 

Watch
the Launch presentation from 123Compare.me’s chief revenue officer, Pau Ferret,
below.

And later, 123Compare.me founder and CEO
Jordi Serra spoke to PhocusWire editor in chief Mitra Sorrells in the
PhocusWire studio.