ZentrumHub Named World's Best Travel Tech Startup, Just as It Outgrows the Title

First-time nominee wins World's Best and Asia's Best Travel Tech Startup at the 2026 World Travel Tech Awards, and steps into enterprise scale ahead of WTM London and The Phocuswright Conference

PUNE, India, Oct. 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- In 2021, four co-founders left their corporate careers in the middle of a pandemic to solve a problem hotel distribution had long accepted: connecting to suppliers one slow, expensive integration at a time.

Five years on, the company they built has been named World's Best Travel Tech Startup 2026 and Asia's Best Travel Tech Startup 2026 at the 6th annual World Travel Tech Awards. It was ZentrumHub's first nomination, and the timing is telling: the category says startup, but the operating profile says enterprise.

ZentrumHub's single hotel API connects travel businesses to more than 100 suppliers and 10 million properties. The platform handles over 50 million API calls a day, books 5,000–8,000 room nights daily and has delivered more than 3 million room nights since launch, at 99.99% uptime.

The company is bootstrapped, profitable, retains 95% of its customers and is a member of Expedia Group's $100 Million Club.

Customers include Trevolution Group, TravClan, InteleTravel, Downtowntravel and Akbar Travels, among more than 90 travel companies in over 30 countries.

"We are honoured to be named the world's best startup, and we see it as a graduation certificate," said Abhinav Sinha, Co-Founder and CEO of ZentrumHub. "For five years we have focused on the unglamorous work: the integrations, the mapping, the issues resolved overnight that customers never see. That is what enterprise travel companies buy. They need a partner already operating at their scale, and that is where ZentrumHub is today."

Following Arabian Travel Market in Dubai and TTG Travel Experience in Rimini, and alongside ITB Asia in Singapore, ZentrumHub now turns to two of the industry's most closely watched stages.

At WTM London (3–5 November), the company moves to a larger stand S16-520, hosts a happy hour for customers and partners, and unveils new products built for enterprise-scale hotel distribution. At The Phocuswright Conference in Fort Lauderdale (17–19 November), it will exhibit and debut its next generation of AI products on the Launch stage.

Meetings with the ZentrumHub team at both events can be booked in advance at zentrumhub.com/events-shows.

About ZentrumHub

ZentrumHub is a travel technology company connecting OTAs, B2B travel agencies, DMCs, wholesalers and TMCs to more than 100 hotel suppliers through one API. Its products, Zentrum Connect and the Zentrum Booking Engine, help travel businesses go live in weeks, not months. www.zentrumhub.com

SOURCE ZentrumHub