accessibleGO Overview
accessibleGO is a full-service travel platform that enables users to research and book accessible hotels, flights, and car rentals in different destinations. The platform offers a community forum, accessibility reviews for hotels, and detailed travel articles about disability access in the United States' most popular travel destinations. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, accessibleGO began gathering specific information from individual hotels about the safety protocols they've implemented and made their responses visible on the hotel listings on its booking site. Additionally, the company has added hotel chain COVID-19 cleaning and safety policies to hotel detail pages, and made this information easily findable with a badge in the search results. In 2018, accessibleGO won Booking.com's regional start-up lab competition.
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Motivated by Mom: Q&A with accessibleGo Founder Miriam Eljas
The article features an interview with Miriam Eljas, the founder of accessibleGO, a platform that provides bookings, reviews, resources, and community for accessible travel. The platform aims to address the lack of accurate accessibility information for people with disabilities when traveling. accessibleGO currently focuses on U.S. hotels but plans to expand its booking capabilities for car rentals and flights. The company is part of the Priceline Partner Network and has access to inventory from booking.com and agoda.com. They gather accessibility data for hotels and are on track to cover a majority of hotels in the USA within the next 2 years. The revenue primarily comes from booking commissions. The company has around 60,000 consumers in its system and differentiates itself from competitors through its extensive accessibility filters, exclusive accessibility reviews, and personalized customer service. The company plans to build demand and usage through partnerships with non-profit organizations and paid online advertising.
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https://www.jpost.com/opinion/hillels-tech-corner-accessiblego-travel-platform-for-disabled-people-617557
The article discusses accessibleGO, an Israeli company that aims to address the challenges of traveling for people with disabilities. The company offers a travel platform that provides bookings, reviews, and community for individuals with disabilities. The article highlights the major obstacles faced by people with disabilities when traveling and emphasizes the importance of accessibility in the travel industry. accessibleGO has formed a relationship with the Priceline Partner Network to access inventory for hotels, cars, and flights. The company has gathered data on over 4,000 hotels and plans to cover a majority of the 50,000 US hotels by the end of 2021. The platform has received positive feedback from users and has raised over $1 million from angel investors. accessibleGO is now ready to scale and is seeking additional funding.
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16 Easy Tips for Saving Money on Your Family Vacation
The article provides tips for families to save money on summer vacations. It suggests being flexible with travel schedules, staying outside the city center, looking for deals on social media and mobile apps, booking early or at the last minute, taking advantage of discounts for kids, considering volunteer trips, renting out or swapping homes, choosing resorts with deals, using a price tracking app, adding family trips to business travel, trying local experiences, learning about other discounts, finding accommodations with a kitchen, and shipping luggage instead of checking bags. The article emphasizes the importance of planning ahead and being resourceful to have an affordable family vacation.
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Online Travel Players Boost Accessibility for Travelers With Disabilities
The travel industry is making strides to improve accessibility for customers with sight, hearing, or mobility issues. Major companies such as Airbnb, Expedia, and Booking.com are developing technologies and acquiring startups to make their services more accessible. For example, Airbnb acquired Accomable, a startup that catalogued accessible lodging. Expedia has a team of accessibility engineers who assess products to make them more usable for travelers with sight, hearing, or mobility issues. Booking.com offered a three-week accelerator program for startups aiming to improve travel, including Wheel the World, which aims to make remote outdoor adventures accessible.
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| Sector | Retail Platforms |
Funding
| Total funding | $1.2M |
| Last funding | Undisclosed |
| Stage | Seed |
| Rounds | 3 |
| Investors | 3 |
Team Members
3
Employees: 1-10
Web & Social Links
| Website | accessiblego.com |
| Careers | Careers page |
Locations
HaPalmach St 13, Jerusalem, Israel
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