{"id":18942,"date":"2025-06-28T13:11:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T13:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savvychoice.co.uk\/savvytravel\/twai-announces-its-acquisition-of-travello\/"},"modified":"2025-06-28T13:11:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T13:11:14","slug":"twai-announces-its-acquisition-of-travello","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesavvy.uk\/travel\/twai-announces-its-acquisition-of-travello\/","title":{"rendered":"TWAI announces its acquisition of Travello"},"content":{"rendered":"

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US-based international journey know-how agency TWAI introduced its acquisition of social journey platform and B2C tour market Travello on Thursday, twenty sixth June.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The acquisition positions TWAI to capitalize on this momentum by enhancing its direct-to-consumer attain, increasing business-to-business accomplice integrations, and unlocking new monetisation channels throughout the worldwide journey expertise economic system.<\/span><\/p>\n

This additionally marks one more milestone in TWAI\u2019s development, because it places the corporate in a management place within the high-growth experiential journey sector all through the Americas, the Asia-Pacific, and Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n

On the similar time, buying Travello additional diversifies TWAI’s portfolio, enabling it to spice up its place in consumer-facing innovation, international distribution, and experiential retailing.<\/span><\/p>\n

TWAI and Travello are slated to launch joint options to carry curated experiences to airways, OTAs, and loyalty platforms worldwide all through the following a number of months.<\/span><\/p>\n

These embody enhanced personalisation options, in addition to expanded reseller APIs to be rolled out in phases in a number of pilot markets in ANZ, North America, and Southeast Asia.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Constructed on key priorities<\/strong><\/h4>\n

TWAI co-founder and chief working officer Moondeep Aggarwal mentioned of the deal: <\/span>“Getting into the excursions and actions market has been a key strategic precedence for TWAI, and Travello brings a top-tier neighborhood, confirmed demand, and strong distribution infrastructure, all of which completely align with our imaginative and prescient to turn out to be a world journey know-how powerhouse.”<\/span><\/p>\n

For his half, Travello founder and chief govt Ryan Hanly remarked: “We have now at all times had international ambitions and TWAI permits us to scale our excursions and actions market to a world viewers, whereas additionally supporting our ambitions to be the trade chief in social commerce via Travello.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Travello chief working officer Josh Wicks added: “With TWAI’s international infrastructure and scale, we’re excited to carry their suite of B2B journey options to the Australian and New Zealand market and stay up for working with trade companions in new and revolutionary methods. On the similar time, we’ll proceed to construct on Travello’s management in social commerce, connecting a world neighborhood of travellers with curated experiences in additional significant, data-driven methods.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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A dynamic asset<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Primarily based in Australia, Travello is taken into account one of many world’s most dynamic journey communities and a strong social commerce market for journey experiences.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

They function a multi-layered platform together with a globally ranked social journey app, a content-rich excursions and actions market, and a white-label B2B engine utilized by OTAs, DMOs, and associates worldwide.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Travello additionally integrates with main reservation methods equivalent to Rezdy and FareHarbor.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

With its catalogue of over 40,000 curated excursions and actions throughout six continents, Travello combines social networking and commerce in a approach few journey platforms have achieved.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Following the deal, Travello\u2019s reserving infrastructure can be built-in into TWAI’s current suite of APIs and fee orchestration platforms, offering end-to-end options for airways, OTAs, loyalty packages, and tour suppliers.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Travello distinction<\/strong><\/h4>\n

What actually units Travello aside is its social-first method which has allowed them to be the trade chief within the <\/span>au courant <\/span><\/i>facet of social commerce.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Constructed round the concept that journey is healthier when shared, the Travello app permits customers to attach with fellow vacationers, share content material, uncover native offers, and take part in real-world meetups all whereas incomes rewards which might be earned and burned inside their platform.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This distinctive mix of neighborhood, commerce, and rewards enabled the platform to domesticate a extremely engaged international person base of greater than 1.2 million travellers throughout 180 nations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Certainly, Travello constantly ranks among the many prime 10 journey apps in over 70 nations, a testomony to its international resonance and intuitive person expertise.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Travello’s community-driven platform gives TWAI with a helpful first-party information layer, enabling extra customized presents, loyalty integration, and real-time expertise merchandising.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Introducing Backpacker Offers<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Including to Travello’s model portfolio is Backpacker Offers, a trusted journey model targeted on inexpensive, genuine adventures throughout Australia and New Zealand.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Tailor-made for impartial vacationers and home explorers, Backpacker Offers supply travellers localised experiences that replicate regional tradition and worth.<\/span><\/p>\n

Collectively, Travello and Backpacker Offers characterize a uncommon mixture: a journey tech platform that’s each deeply social and extremely transactional, trusted by shoppers and companions alike. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

US-based international journey know-how agency TWAI introduced its acquisition of social journey platform and B2C tour market Travello on Thursday, twenty sixth June. The acquisition positions TWAI to capitalize on this momentum by enhancing its direct-to-consumer attain, increasing business-to-business accomplice integrations, and unlocking new monetisation channels throughout the worldwide journey expertise economic system. This additionally […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"TWAI announces its acquisition of Travello - SavvyTravel","description":"US-based international journey know-how agency TWAI introduced its acquisition of social journey platform and B2C tour market Travello on Thursday, twenty sixth"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2333,1940,2334,2332],"class_list":["post-18942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel-guide","tag-acquisition","tag-announces","tag-travello","tag-twai"],"blocksy_meta":[],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/stateless-www-live-traveldailymedia\/2025\/06\/b64858f3-travello_app_cover-1024x323.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesavvy.uk\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesavvy.uk\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesavvy.uk\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesavvy.uk\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesavvy.uk\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18942"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesavvy.uk\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18946,"href":"https:\/\/thesavvy.uk\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18942\/revisions\/18946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesavvy.uk\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesavvy.uk\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesavvy.uk\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesavvy.uk\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}