Copolo, a U.S. online travel agency, has been awarded the Travel & Hospitality Corporate Innovation Award from Plug and Play at its Winter Summit 2021. Plug and Play’s Winter Summit 2021 celebrated the 153 batch startups from 9 of their industry-focused innovation programs: Energy, Enterprise Tech, Fintech, Health, Insurtech, Internet of Things, Mobility, Real Estate & Construction, and Travel & Hospitality.
Copolo is changing the way people travel by making carbon offsetting available for all of its travelers. In an effort to counterbalance the environmental impact of travel, Copolo travelers who book using their site have the option to offset the carbon emissions produced from their booking. By partnering with CHOOOSE™, a climate-focused technology company in Oslo, Norway, consumers can easily manage and offset carbon emissions produced by their travels.
“At Plug and Play, we deeply value our partnership with H.I.S., their innovative spirit, and inspiring advances in open collaboration with us and our startup ecosystem,” said Amir Amidi, Director of Plug and Play’s Travel & Hospitality Program. “The launch of their sustainability-focused OTA, copolo.com, in partnership with CHOOOSE™, exemplifies our shared mission and approach in making the world a better place. We’re honored to be part of H.I.S. Group’s impressive innovation journey, and so it is with great pleasure that, on behalf of Plug and Play, I present our 2021 Corporate Innovation Award to H.I.S. We can’t wait to see what they’ll do next.”
Inspired by Marco Polo, the world-famous writer, traveler, and explorer, the name Copolo serves as a symbol of the company’s mission. By working towards small changes collaboratively, the goal is to start building a better tomorrow by offering more more sustainable travel solutions.
“On behalf of H.I.S. Group, I would like to express my gratitude upon receiving this award,” says Hideo Hatano, Executive Officer / H.I.S. Co., Ltd. “Through Plug and Play, we have worked with numerous startups and searched for new styles of travel in this new era. One of our major missions was to make travel better for the environment. So, this year, we started copolo.com. Copolo has implemented startup services that we encountered within the Plug and Play ecosystem, and we plan on collaborating with more startups in the future. The brand has just started, and so we will continue to work with startups along with the help of Plug and Play to be innovative and create new styles of travel.”
In future phases of Copolo, more travel styles will be available for booking and continued innovations towards providing the most holistic OTA experience on the market will be developed.
