Best Travel and Hospitality Companies in Thailand
The 98 best Travel and Hospitality companies in Thailand in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Drivehub.
Thailand's Travel and Hospitality sector draws serious attention, and this directory ranks the 98 companies we track here by disclosed equity funding and recent funding momentum. Total disclosed funding across the cohort sits at $1M, with Drivehub leading at $1M raised and names like Destination Asia, Boat Lagoon Yachting, and Airports of Thailand carrying no publicly disclosed rounds at all. Zero unicorns. That's the honest shape of this market: mostly bootstrapped operators competing inside a global industry forecast to reach $1.73T by 2025, up from $889.7B in 2020, at a 14.2% CAGR. Scale exists here. It just isn't being financed the way you might expect.
So what's actually moving? App engagement is one real signal: median install growth runs at roughly +19% year-on-year across 614 travel and hospitality apps, which tells you mobile demand is ahead of the funding story. Coverage in the sector is flat overall, but the themes gaining traction are telling, with severe weather advisory and flood-stage forecasting surfacing as genuine product priorities, not marketing copy. For Thailand specifically, that makes sense. Climate risk shapes itineraries, insurance products, and operator liability in ways the funding tables don't capture. I'd watch how the bootstrapped majority here starts pricing that exposure.
- ResearchAndMarkets.com
Ranked: Best Travel and Hospitality companies in Thailand
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Drivehub Provider of car rental services | $1M | 64 mo ago | Series A | Thatchai Chuaprapaisilp Co-Founder & CEO | 2017 | SentryTypeScriptGraphQL+25 | — |
| 2 | Destination Asia Provider of travel services | — | 120 mo ago | Funding Raised | James Reed CEO | 1996 | WordPressMySQLPHP+13 | 1 job opening · 2 awards |
| 3 | Boat Lagoon Yachting Operator of yachts and charters | — | 216 mo ago | Late Stage | Vrit Yongsakul Founder & Managing Director | 1995 | WordPressMySQLPHP+29 | — |
| 4 | 137 Pillars Operator of standalone hotel and resort | — | — | Unfunded | — | 2011 | PHPNginxSplide+7 | 2 awards |
| 5 | AAV Operator of passenger airlines | — | — | Public | Santisuk Klongchaiya CEO | 2006 | PHPThree.jsLaravel+22 | — |
| 6 | Airports of Thailand Airport operator | — | — | Public | Nitinai Sirismatthakarn CEO & President | 1979 | Apple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365TypeScript+17 | — |
| 7 | Akaryn | — | — | Unfunded | — | 2008 | — | — |
| 8 | Amari Operator of standalone hotels and resorts | — | — | Unfunded | — | 1965 | Cart FunctionalitySentryWindows Server+35 | — |
Top 3 Travel and Hospitality companies in Thailand
#1
Series A · Bangkok, Bangkok · founded 2017 · 8 employees$1Mraised▾
Provider of car rental services
- Jan 2021Series A—
- 2018Seed$1M
#2
Funding Raised · Bangkok, Bangkok · founded 1996 · 439 employees—raised▾
Provider of travel services
#3
Late Stage · Phuket, Phuket · founded 1995—raised▾
Operator of yachts and charters
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Travel and Hospitality coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising