Emerging Travel Group

Emerging Travel Group is a travel-technology company founded in 2010. It operates three booking platforms - RateHawk for travel professionals, ZenHotels for individual travellers and Roundtrip for corporate clients - built on shared infrastructure that covers accommodation, flights, transfers and car rentals in more than 220 markets.

The engineering work spans high-performance search engines, supplier API integrations, extranet systems for direct hotelier contracting and large-scale server infrastructure. The company's search engine handles 30,000 requests per second across more than 1,500 servers, and its systems process over 40,000 bookings a day against an inventory of 2.9m accommodation options. More than 330 suppliers are integrated into the technical stack, alongside an Extranet product that supports over 220,000 direct hotelier contracts.

Commercially, the group reports annual turnover above $2.6bn. RateHawk serves more than 100,000 travel agencies in 120 countries, while Roundtrip works with over 5,000 corporate clients.

The company employs more than 3,900 professionals across over 88 countries, working as a highly distributed international team. Technology excellence has been a founding principle since 2010, and the stated mission is to make travel more accessible for individuals, more rewarding for professionals and simpler for everyone. Reliability of service and continuous innovation are named priorities.