Ronan Daniel

💻 Septeo, led by Isabelle Viale and Sébastien Imbert, is pioneering AI integration in hospitality to optimize operations and enhance human capabilities. AI automates, predicts, and personalizes the guest experience, addressing retention by supporting staff. It transforms travel searches with virtual agents and manages post-stay feedback. Despite benefits, integrating AI across diverse hotel roles is complex and costly, requiring comprehensive software and APIs for seamless data exchange. Performance metrics are crucial for ROI assessment.

🚀 Christian Sabbagh, fondateur de Travelsoft, a partagé sa vision lors de VivaTech 2025 à Paris. VivaTech, pour la première fois, a dédié un espace au voyage, illustrant une évolution du secteur. Sabbagh a souligné que l'intelligence artificielle (IA), utilisée par Travelsoft pour optimiser 80% de ses processus en back-office, transforme le voyage comme Internet l'a fait il y a 25 ans. Travelsoft a intégré sept entreprises technologiques en deux ans pour renforcer son innovation.

🌍 VivaTech 2025, Paris: A significant tourism rebound with nearly a billion visitors in Europe in 2024, surpassing pre-pandemic levels. Over 55% of Intrepid Travel bookings now target mid-season, steering clear of peak times. Multi-modal mobility and EU regulations aim to reduce tourism's carbon footprint. EU's policy draft expected in December 2025, adoption in spring 2026. Initiatives like Copen Pay in Copenhagen highlight local efforts for sustainable travel.

📱 Bpifrance unveiled cultural tech startups at VivaTech 2025 in Paris. Excurio offers VR trips for up to 120 people, attracting 3M global visitors. Histovery's "HistoPad" AR tablets enhance cultural site visits, used by 3M annually across 20 sites, including soon at Fort Alamo. Ask Mona enables interaction with art, working with 200 museums, and launched an AI-enhanced wine bottle. Synegram introduces a new music-learning method. These innovations highlight mixed reality's potential in culture and education.

💻 Emmanuel Macron, Jensen Huang (CEO of Nvidia), and Arthur Mensch (CEO of Mistral AI) discussed AI's future in Europe at VivaTech 2025 in Paris. Mistral AI and Nvidia announced a landmark partnership to develop European AI infrastructure, emphasizing regional independence from US and Chinese cloud providers. Macron highlighted the importance of building European cloud and AI capabilities for sovereignty and autonomy, underscoring the need for local data centers and computing services.

💻 Accor's strategic use of AI, as shared by Myriam El Harraq, focuses on major transformations in the travel sector. By 2025, Accor aims to enhance traffic acquisition through conversational search, with ChatGPT already handling over 1 billion daily queries. Their strategy includes hyperpersonalization, improved client relations via virtual assistants, and enhanced marketing content. A center of excellence, established in 2024, pilots these projects, with over 6,000 internal users engaging in AI-driven efficiency programs.

🌍 VivaTech 2025, Paris: Ask Mona and Evaneos explored AI's impact on tourism, highlighting personalization and efficiency. 73% of consumers and 87% of professionals plan to use AI for travel planning by 2025. AI offers itinerary generation, translation, and email drafting. Risks include over-standardization, but local expertise can enhance experiences. Valentin Schmite emphasizes AI as a starting point, with humans personalizing the journey. Future AI may minimize screen reliance, enhancing travel through voice assistants.

📶 Kolet, a Paris-based startup founded in 2024, raised $10 million (8.8 million euros) on June 10, 2025, led by Daphni fund. The funding includes 1 million euros in non-dilutive debt from Bpifrance. Notable participants: Peter Kern (ex-Expedia CEO) and Jon Gieselman (ex-Apple VP Marketing). Kolet aims to expand globally, enhance its digital eSIM offerings and app, and hire internationally. Their eSIM enables connectivity in over 190 countries, targeting the travel sector with a B2B2C model.