Online travel booking
Invention of the first online travel booking system
With traffics, Salim Sahi and his partner Jens Muskewitz founded a company in 1999 that has found its historic place in the tourism industry.
Project description
In the first days of the Internet, when online access was only possible with modems and buzzing signal tones, Salim invented the first solutions to make hotel rates bookable on websites, and in the following years Salim and Jens developed the world's first professional Internet -Booking technology for travel.
In the decades that followed, they developed significant innovations in the TravelTech scene and drove the progress of an entire industry. Through a multitude of inventions that Salim and Jens were able to realize, they have left their footsteps in the tourism industry.
The focus was always on the inventions to make it easier for people to use it when searching for a trip, as well as automating and simplifying advisory processes for travel agency agents and online travel portal operators.
The whole story since the company was founded in 1999, the challenges, the successes as well as the setbacks and exciting innovations can be found here in the video.
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