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Quarantine Accredited Hotels – A travel startup stepping in

As of today, many countries require a mandatory hotel quarantine upon arrival. Governments imposed strict compliance on hotels to become accredited for quarantine guests. Property physical standards, room turnover sequences and hygiene protocols are a few benchmarks to be fulfilled in order to become an accredited hotel for quarantine.

For travellers, it has been difficult to find accurate hotels because booking sites don’t indicate which hotels are government accredited. Accidentally booking the wrong hotel will lead to complications.

SoldoutNight, an early stage travel tech startup, designed a contemporary travel management platform for companies and personal travel. It strives to continuously introduce new booking features to the travel industry. The newest service they offer provides travellers with a very efficient way to find and book hotels that are accredited for quarantine.

SoldoutNight introduced a new service, providing a platform to easily find all hotels in your destination region which allow quarantine guests. The information is reliable and updated daily. Travellers save time since they do not need to browse government websites or contact hotels in order to find out who’s accredited.

Once the preferred hotel has been selected, SoldoutNight will provide customers with the best available rates and manage the booking. Travellers will then receive all necessary step by step arrival guidelines of the respective destination. It’s very efficient and can save travellers time and headaches.

This free service is recommended to anyone travelling to a country where hotel quarantine upon arrival is mandatory. The current list of countries that require travellers arriving from any destination in the world to hotel quarantine, as of today are: Hong Kong, India, Lebanon, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam

SoldoutNight – A Travel Startup

Travel startups need to be agile. Today, more significantly than ever before, booking solutions and services should remodel to the needs of travellers at a rapid pace. For early-stage travel startups, the Covid-19 pandemic has been tremendously challenging and coupled with great opportunities.

SoldoutNight was founded in 2019, shortly before the Covid-19 pandemic. Fortunate to be such an early-stage startup with low overhead and overall costs, the company can focus on developing a product aligned with all the changes happening in the travel industry. The platform launched in November 2020, currently running under its beta version.

SoldoutNight manages travel for companies worldwide, with a focus on Southeast Asia. The startup has an office in Manila, Philippines for customer service and business development, managed by Co-Founder Krispin Wehrli.

The tech team, focusing on building state-of-the-art travel software is located in Kyiv, Ukraine, managed by Founder Igor Sinchuk. Wehrli and Sinchuk are friends who met ten years ago at university, SHMS Leysin in Switzerland. Why Manila and Kyiv? Manila is located in the heart of the target markets and Kyiv is a major hub for talented software developers with exposure to rising tech companies that are very competitive globally.