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Travel & Mobility

Decades in Motion: Building Billion‑Dollar
Platforms in Travel & Mobility

Our Legacy in Numbers

 KAYAK 
Swoodoo → KAYAK

From garage codebase to Europe’s #1 flight meta‑search, acquired by KAYAK and now part of Booking Holdings. KAYAK brands process hundreds of millions of search queries annually and contribute materially to Booking Holdings’ multi‑billion‑dollar revenue stream.

 HomeToGo 
HomeToGo (HTG.DE)

Gradion teams helped scale HomeToGo’s marketplace from concept to IPO, now listing 15 M+ vacation rentals and reporting €200 M+ 2024 revenue in public filings.

 roadsurfer 
roadsurfer

Europe’s fastest‑growing camper‑van rental: Gradion engineered the multi‑country booking marketplace, integrated telematics for 5,000+ vans, and rolled out ML‑based dynamic pricing-powering triple‑digit annual growth.

 Go Vibe 
Go Vibe Car Rental (Hawaii)

Mobile‑first booking engine and real‑time fleet utilisation system lifted revenue 38 % YoY post‑launch.

Core Capabilities

Pillar Native Capability
Search & Discovery Engines High‑performance flight / accommodation meta‑search, elastic search clusters tuned for millisecond results.
Marketplace Platforms Multi‑tenant booking engines handling hundreds of suppliers, dynamic pricing, and global payment gateways.
Mobility SaaS Real‑time fleet management, smart routing, and yield‑management algorithms for car‑rental, camper‑van, and micromobility fleets.
SYNAOS IMP Recommendation engines, demand forecasting, and segmentation AI that lift conversion 10–20%.
Scalable Cloud & DevOps Follow‑the‑Sun SRE keeping marketplaces live 24 / 7-even on Black Friday traffic peaks.

How We Engage

Concept & Feasibility
Rapid PoCs validate demand, OTA/API integrations, and yield models in < 8 weeks.
Platform Build‑Out
Cross‑functional squads deliver MVP to market, then iterate to Series B scale.
Growth & Optimisation
Traffic spike hardening, A/B experimentation, and ML‑driven pricing modules.
Continuous Ops
24 / 7 monitoring, performance tuning, security, and FinOps cost governance.
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Differentiators

Billion‑Dollar Proof

Few consultancies can point to two unicorn‑class travel exits; we can. 

 

01
Full‑Stack to Full‑Lifecycle

Strategy, build, and 365‑day operations under one partner.

 

02
Global Reach

EU product leadership plus Asia engineering horsepower equals rapid iteration and competitive TCO.

 

03
Regulatory & Tax Savvy

Experience navigating OTA regulations, PSD2, PCI‑DSS, and multi‑region VAT flows.

 

04

Impact Metrics

Search latency
↓ 60 %
after search‑stack overhaul on a flight‑meta platform.

Fleet utilisation
↑ 18 %
for a car‑rental client via ML pricing
and real‑time telematics.

Booking conversion
↑ 15 %
after introducing AI‑powered
personalisation

Ready to move travellers and your valuation faster?

Partner with Gradion to design, build, and scale travel & mobility platforms that don’t just keep up-they set the pace.