Headquarters: Tampa, U.S.
CEO: Muirelle Montecalvo
Website: Vacayou
Founding date: 2019
Investment: $3.3 million
Vacayou is building the most comprehensive content and booking platform exclusively for wellness and active travel.
By combining the world’s best selection of top-rated resorts and destinations with custom data and personalization tools, Vacayou
is making it easy for health-minded travelers to find and book their perfect wellness holiday and to ensure they never have to compromise their wellbeing when they travel.
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Strategic goals for 2022
Vacayou is looking forward to seeing more travelers get comfortable to get out and explore again.
Our main focuses for 2022 is client growth, continuing to educate the consumers on the benefits of healthy travel and adding many more exclusive well-being
and active vacations to the site.
We are launching the Vacayou Voyager Membership Club and will be continuing to add to the website by adding more personalized features and enhancing our technology infrastructure.
Lessons learned over the last year
The last 18 months have been devastating for many businesses, although no one could have predicted the complete and sudden shut down of the travel sector. Talk about a crazy time to be launching a brand-new travel company, however, our human desire to travel is universally strong
We are nomadic, curious and have a yearning to seek out and explore new places and other cultures.
At Vacayou, we buckled down and started to think outside the box. We learned that if we can’t launch and book, then we should inspire our future
travelers providing them with digital content to keep them engaged. We adapted, and it was a way for us to build our brand as we worked behind the scenes to create great experiences.
We launched beta earlier this year and quickly learned that
people want someone to talk to and the travel agent proposition is stronger than ever. Travel may not ever be completely the same as it was before the pandemic, although it’s wonderful to see how resilient the industry is and the new ideas emerging.