The online travel platform Travel Genius secured funding to launch its ground-breaking location intelligence platform. This platform is set to change how travel industry professionals access actionable insights and how travellers plan and book their trips and experiences.
Travel Genius secured USD 200,000 in funding from BlueBox Group Private Ltd, an investment and startup advisory group based in Singapore that nurtures and develops early-stage ideas. “We get excited about seeing the potential of a new disruptive idea, such as Travel Genius, that will change and shape the course of the travel industry. We support the growth of novel ideas into sustainable business opportunities, and we believe in creating legacies and impact,” said Roshni Pandey, co-founder of Bluebox Group Private Ltd.
Founded by seasoned hospitality leader Hannes Bos and tech innovator Sachin Chauhan, Travel Genius was created after identifying major gaps in the travel industry. The investment has been used to develop a global SAAS location intelligence platform for the travel and hospitality industry. It led to the launch of the B2B platform SpotQuest and the B2C website Geni-us.
SpotQuest is an intuitive platform that is easily accessible to all travel professionals. Using unique data points at micro-neighbourhood levels, SpotQuest delivers insights in a simplified and easily followed format incorporating powerful visualisations through customised maps and tables. The AI-powered platform provides the industry with a powerful tool that reduces manual work and room for error in a fraction of the time it currently takes to gather the data. Easy to use, it bridges the gap of other tools by providing deeply relevant data to the business with actionable insights. This global visualization tool allows comparisons across all brands and provides 360° location intelligence in real-time. Users can customise the filters and point of interest data based on local demand drivers (landmarks, offices, restaurants, nightlife…), to stay ahead of the competition.
Geni-us is a powerful travel search engine that delivers meaningful, relevant, and personalised travel recommendations and itineraries based on travellers’ desired experiences. The map-based travel planning and discovery platform uses a revolutionary technology to understand travel intent, with a natural language free-form search, answering all traveller’s needs in a single search and locating the best area to stay at. While there are tons of resources, including Chat-GPT and AI-based platforms, where travellers can find locally curated answers to any such questions, none of them offer the opportunity to answer all these questions in a multi-faceted way that is visually relevant and hyper-personalised as Geni-us.
“Over the last twenty years, the online travel industry has not been able to meaningfully simplify the process of researching, planning and booking trips, which currently still requires an average of 30 online sessions over 19 days” said Hannes Bos.
With this in mind, he has created Geni-us. On this first platform, travellers can now easily and effectively plan for their stay, as the purpose-built platform provides answers to the key travel questions “What to do, When to do, Where to go (destination), Where to Stay (Area/Location), and How to get there” into one map-based user-interface. Acting as the users’ local travel agent, Geni-us offers a stress-free way for users to turn all their travel desires into memorable experiences at a click.
