Sygic Travel

What Sygic Travel does

Sygic Travel is a consumer trip-planning platform operated by the Czech private limited company Tripomatic s.r.o., headquartered in Brno. Originally launched in 2008 and historically distributed under the Sygic brand, the product is now marketed as Tripomatic across web, iOS, and Android, with the marketing site localized in more than 14 languages. The platform helps individual travelers discover destinations, build day-by-day itineraries from a database of millions of places, optimize routes across walking, public transit, car, bike, and hiking modes, estimate per-traveler trip costs, and book tours and activities directly in-app, with offline maps and export to PDF/GPX/KML.

The core technology stack is a multi-surface planner: a web app at maps.tripomatic.com, mobile apps published since at least 2012 on iOS and Google Play, and an account system that syncs trips across devices. The company has layered AI features on top of this base, including an AI Trip Planner that generates itineraries from user-stated interests, pace, and travel style, and an AI-powered cost estimator that produces per-traveler budget breakdowns. The platform supports real-time collaboration, shared editing, and reusable saved itineraries, and integrates an in-app Tours & Tickets booking flow with skip-the-line ticketing. Underlying the planner is a long-accumulated POI/attractions database developed since the company's 2008 founding and reportedly covering destinations worldwide.

The business model is primarily B2C and appears to be bootstrapped: no funding rounds, parent company, or ownership structure are disclosed. With a headcount of 11-50 and cumulative downloads of 3M+ (2M+ on Google Play, 1M+ on iOS), the company monetizes through app store channels, ancillary bookings of tours and activities (affiliate or commission-based), and potentially premium features, while pricing is not publicly disclosed. Leadership comprises CEO Lukas Nevosad and co-founder and Head of Business Development Barbora Nevosadova.

Name

Sygic Travel

Legal name

Tripomatic s.r.o.

Website

https://travel.sygic.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2008

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Sygic Travel (Tripomatic) is a Brno-based consumer trip-planning platform, available on web, iOS, and Android, that helps individual travelers discover places, build day-by-day itineraries with AI-assisted planning, optimize routes, estimate costs, and book tours and activities.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Travel Planning Software

NAICS

Tour Operators (561520)

SIC

Transportation Services (4700)

akta.pro primary industry

Itinerary Management & Trip Collaboration Apps (THALAMAE)

akta.pro secondary industries

Destination/Activity Booking Marketplaces (Tours & Tickets Aggregators) (THAKAAAH), Multimodal Trip Planning, Routing & Journey Orchestration Platforms (THADALAA)

Keywords

• Trip planning software
• Travel itinerary maker
• AI trip planner
• Travel route optimization
• Destination discovery platform

Headquarters

HQ city

Brno

HQ country

Czechia

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Core offering

Sygic Travel (operating as Tripomatic) provides a trip planning platform available on web, iOS, and Android that lets users discover destinations and attractions, build day-by-day itineraries with drag-and-drop scheduling, generate optimized routes across multiple transport modes, estimate trip costs, and book tours and tickets. The product combines an AI-powered itinerary generator with a database of places, offline maps, and collaboration features for individual travelers and groups.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Tripomatic Trip Planner A cross-platform trip planning application (web, iOS, Android) that lets individual travelers discover attractions, organize day-by-day itineraries with drag-and-drop, generate optimized multi-modal routes, estimate costs, book tours and tickets, collaborate with companions, and use offline maps.
• AI-Powered Trip Planner An AI-driven feature within Tripomatic that generates personalized day-by-day itineraries based on a traveler's interests, pace, and travel style.
• Tours & Tickets Booking An in-app booking capability that lets travelers reserve tours, skip-the-line tickets, and activities directly within their planned itinerary.
• Route Planner A routing feature that calculates optimized routes across walking, public transit, car, bike, and hiking trails for trip itineraries.
• Trip Cost Estimator An AI-powered cost estimation feature that generates per-traveler trip cost breakdowns and tracks activity expenses for budget planning.

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Viator: Tripadvisor-owned tours and activities marketplace, comparable in its booking integration and travel-planning orientation, though at significantly larger scale and broader supply coverage.
• Google Travel: Google's integrated trip planning and travel search surfaces (including Google Maps trip features). The dominant platform competitor with structurally unmatched distribution, data, and AI capabilities.
• Tripadvisor: Global travel reviews and planning platform with itinerary and attraction discovery features. Competes broadly for the trip-planning user journey and dwarfs Tripomatic in audience and content.
• GetYourGuide: Global tours and activities marketplace with a planning-oriented consumer app. Overlaps with Tripomatic's Tours & Tickets booking feature and competes for the same high-intent leisure traveler.

Direct peers

• Wanderlog: Mobile and web trip-planning app offering day-by-day itineraries, collaboration, route planning, and booking — overlapping directly with Tripomatic's core feature set and target user (independent leisure travelers).
• Roadtrippers: Trip planning platform focused on multi-stop road trips with route optimization and attraction discovery, comparable to Tripomatic's road-trip and multimodal routing capabilities.
• Visit A City: City-focused travel planner that builds printable and interactive itineraries from a curated catalog of attractions — closely overlapping Tripomatic's day-by-day itinerary use case.
• TripIt: Concur-owned itinerary management app that organizes travel plans into master itineraries — a long-standing direct competitor in the consumer trip planning and itinerary organization space.

Emerging players

• Hopper: AI-driven travel booking app that has expanded into hotels, flights, and trip planning. Comparable as a mobile-first, AI-enhanced consumer travel product competing for the same end user.
• Layla: AI-native conversational trip planner that generates personalized itineraries end-to-end. Represents the emerging AI-first category that may compress differentiation of traditional planning tools like Tripomatic.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/sygictravel
• Facebookfacebook.com/SygicTravel
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/sygictravel

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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