Despegar (already listed)
ArgentinaTraveltechFounded 1999
Despegar is an Argentine online travel agency (OTA) that lets consumers search, compare and book travel online, solving the problem of fragmented trip planning and reservations across flights, lodging and ancillary travel services. Its platform bundles flights, hotel and other accommodations, vacation packages, activities, car rentals, transfers, travel assistance/insurance, and theme-park tickets (Disney, Universal) as well as multi-destination circuits, with round-trip origin/destination and passenger search. The site is aimed at leisure travelers in Spanish-speaking Latin America, operating localized storefronts such as despegar.com.ar, and includes an AI travel assistant named SOFIA, the Pasaporte points and Club Despegar loyalty programs, and installment payment offers with banks and cards. In October 2025, press reports identified Gonzalo Estebarena, previously the company's CTO, as its new CEO, in a change reported as aligned with Prosus.
Key people
- Gonzalo García Estebarena CEO