Travel and Hospitality Landscape of the United States
21,113 Travel and Hospitality companies in the United States, in one picture: who is hiring, who is raising money, who founded them, where they are based, what the news is about and which skills employers want. Updated August 2026.
Who leads Travel and Hospitality in the United States
Shows 21,113 U.S. travel and hospitality firms, highlighting the top hiring firms like Marriott International and the most funded firms such as Hertz; 1,955 are hiring now and 788 have disclosed funding.
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Marriott International13last posted Aug 2026
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Pyramid Global Hospitality12last posted Jul 2026
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BCD Travel12last posted Aug 2026
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Marriott Vacations Worldwide12last posted Jul 2026
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Arrivia12last posted Jul 2026
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hotel equities12last posted Jul 2026
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Royal Caribbean Group11last posted Jun 2026
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Crescent Hotels & Resorts11last posted Jun 2026
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Hertz$12B— · —
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Aviation Capital Group$9.9BConventional Debt · Mar 2025
- 03Air Lease$7.9BConventional Debt · May 2019
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MGM Resorts International$6.8BPost IPO · Oct 2020
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Las Vegas Sands$6BConventional Debt · Aug 2019
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BritishAirways$4.1BConventional Debt · Nov 2021
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CDB Aviation$3.3BConventional Debt · Aug 2024
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Mohegan Gaming & Entertainment$2.8BConventional Debt · Jan 2018
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The Walt Disney Company$25.2BFY2020 filing
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FedEx$24BFY2025 filing
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Delta$15.9BFY2026 filing
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United Airlines$14.6BFY2024 filing
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American Airlines$13.9BFY2025 filing
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Avis$11.7Bsnapshot Dec 2025
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Southwest Airlines$7.2BFY2024 filing
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Hyatt206,000tracked employees
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Continental Airlines99,800tracked employees
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spirit airlines4.7%494 tracked events
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JetBlue2.9%309 tracked events
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Hilton9,979articles in the window
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See all 21,113 Travel and Hospitality companies in the United States
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How the Travel and Hospitality ecosystem in the United States grew, 2016–2025
Displays the number of companies founded each year from 2016‑2025, with a peak of 617 new firms in 2020 and only 17 founded in 2025.
Where Travel and Hospitality companies in the United States are based
Lists the cities with the most sector companies, led by New York City with 581 firms, followed by Miami, Chicago, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.
The Travel and Hospitality market map of the United States: what these companies actually do
Breaks down product sub‑categories, showing the largest groups (e.g., inc 5000 with 95 firms) and the most common revenue models such as fee‑for‑service used by 11,299 companies.
The biggest kinds of Travel and Hospitality company, by how many we track.
- Inc 500095 companies · $103.5M raised · 28 hiring
- Consumer Digital75 companies · $7B raised · 9 hiring
- Enterprise Tech53 companies · $48.7M raised · 4 hiring
- B2C E-Commerce35 companies · $2.5M raised · 2 hiring
- Enterprise Software26 companies · $8.9M raised · 3 hiring
- Global 200021 companies · $35.2B raised · 10 hiring
- Marketplaces20 companies · $160M raised · 2 hiring
- Fortune 50018 companies · $28.6B raised · 10 hiring
- SaaS15 companies · $32.6M raised · 1 hiring
- Shared Mobility14 companies
- Gig Employers13 companies · $2.5M raised
- Cab Ride-Hailing12 companies
Monetization
How Travel and Hospitality companies make money
How many companies earn revenue each way. Plenty use more than one model, so the counts add up to more than the sector.
Funding, M&A and the deals moving Travel and Hospitality in the United States
Counts 6,039 corporate events over the past two years, including 1,481 announcements, 1,394 earnings releases, and 1,096 key‑person updates.
- M&AIn 2022, Spirit entered a $7.6 billion merger agreement under which JetBlue would acquire it, effectively establishing the fifth-largest carrier in the country.2026-05-04
- M&AThe estimated cost of acquiring the airline is around $1.7 billion.2026-05-03
- M&ASun Country Airlines and Allegiant Airlines have decided to merge, believing that additional value for shareholders can be unlocked by bringing these two airlines together.2026-04-27
- M&ASovereign Capital Partners is set to exit Affinia through a sale to RedBird Capital Partners2026-04-23
- M&ACaesars Entertainment has extended exclusive talks with billionaire investor Tilman Fertitta about a possible $18 billion purchase.2026-04-21
- FundingTarget Hospitality Corp. (Nasdaq: TH), one of North America's largest providers of vertically-integrated modular accommodations and value-added hospitality services, today announced the pricing of its previously announced underwritten, secondary offering (the "Offering") of 7,000,000 shares (the "Shares") of its common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the "Common Stock"), held by Arrow Holdings S.à r.l. and MFA Global S.à r.l. (collectively, the "Selling Stockholders"), entities controlled by TDR Capital LLP, acting in its capacity as investment fund manager, at a price to the public of $14.00 per share, for total gross proceeds to the Selling Stockholders of approximately $98,000,000, before deducting underwriting discounts and commissions.2026-04-21
- M&AAmerican Airlines said it’s not engaged with or interested in any discussions regarding a merger with rival United Airlines, dampening the prospect of a tie-up that could reshape the industry.2026-04-18
- M&ASun European investing in aerospace logistics specialist B&H Worldwide as part of a broader buy-and-build strategy.2026-04-17
- FundingCaruso has raised $9.3 million in a Series A raise at an $80 million valuation.2026-04-17
- M&AThere was also the 2024 purchase of Hawaiian Airlines by Alaska, which did get approval from the DOT.2026-04-14
Mergers and acquisitions
Deals from the last 24 months where a Travel and Hospitality company in the United States was the buyer or the one bought, newest first. “Undisclosed” means the price was never published — not that the deal was worth nothing.
| Acquirer | Target | Deal value | Status | Date |
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| undisclosed | Announced | 2026-06-30 | ||
| undisclosed | Announced | 2026-05-07 | ||
| $7.6B | Terminated | 2026-05-04 | ||
| Let’s Buy Spirit | $1.7B | Rumored | 2026-05-02 | |
| undisclosed | Announced | 2026-04-27 | ||
| undisclosed | Announced | 2026-04-27 |
Who is listing, hiring leaders, launching and winning work
Provides details on specific events like IPO filings, leadership changes, product launches, and contract wins for companies in the sector.
FlyExclusiveIPO · NYSE American · FLYX · 1 reportJan 2026
StandardAeroIPO · NYSE · SARO · 14 reportsOct 2025
Sun Country AirlinesFollow-on Offering · Nasdaq Global Select Market · SNCY · 2 reportsFeb 2025
Sky HarbourFollow-on Offering · NYSE · SKYH · 2 reportsJan 2025
ACISRob Curley · Appointment → Business Development DirectorMay 2026
St Louis ZooKirby Meyer · Appointment → Chief Experience OfficerMay 2026
Under CanvasMatt Gaghen · Promotion → executive chairmanApr 2026
BH Worldwide LLPAI tyre scanning technologyApr 2026
Verra MobilityAutoKinex Virtual Agent (In-vehicle checkout workflow)Apr 2026
JetlogisticsJet Logistics Website (Website)Mar 2026
Barfieldwon jetblueApr 2026
hawaiian airlineswon amazonApr 2026
safari westscale undisclosed · cost-cuttingApr 2026
Resorts World Las Vegasscale undisclosedMar 2026
ClecocorpApproval — Louisiana Public Service CommissionApr 2026
StraightflightApproval — FAAApr 2026
- U.S. Justice Department v spirit airlinesmerger enforcement · SettledApr 2026
- as you sow v secShareholder proposal regulationMar 2026
Half of these companies grew revenue faster than +4.4%, half slower.
Who is building Travel and Hospitality in the United States
Profiles 1,484 founders and CEOs across 1,440 firms, noting frequent alma maters like Cornell (15 alumni) and prior employers such as Microsoft (3 alumni).
Tel Aviv University
ex- CEO Prestige Cruise Holdings. University of Florida
Texas Christian University - M.J. Neeley School of Business BBA, Texas Christian University MBA
Ex-Owner Aviation Management, JT Power. University of Denver, The London School of Economics and Political Science
Title 31 Testing, ex-CEO FireKeepers Casino Hotel, FireKeepers Casino & Hotel, North Star Mohican Casino. UWSP BS 2003, UW-Eau Claire MBA 2007
Ex-Bright Horizons, Medica Health Management
Ex-Vx Capital Partners, AerCap, Allco Finance Group, Bank of America Leasing & Capital. UC San Diego BA 1991…
Ex- UCF Rosen School of Hospitality Management, Maryland Hotel Motel Association, InMoment, Visitors Bureau. Cornell University BS…
GDS Services, ex-CEO CyrusOne, Cincinnati Bell, Laureate Education, Agere System, Delphi. Rutgers University BA, CBS MBA
- flagged as repeat founders6
- no repeat-founder flag816
- women291
- men1,103
Look up the people behind Travel and Hospitality companies in the United States
Search founders, executives and operators by company, role and location.
Who funds Travel and Hospitality in the United States
Tracks 970 funding rounds since 2016 from 302 investors, with a typical round size of $1.4 million.
| Investor · most active investors since 2016 | Rounds | Led | Latest |
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| U.S. Department of Transportation | 209 | — | Dec 2025 |
| USGS | 110 | — | Dec 2025 |
| Europa | 29 | — | Feb 2024 |
| United States Department of Agriculture | 21 | — | Sep 2025 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | 18 | — | Apr 2025 |
| HHS | 11 | — | May 2025 |
| Veterans Affairs | 7 | — | Sep 2025 |
| National Endowment for the Arts | 6 | — | Sep 2025 |
| Imls | 5 | — | Mar 2025 |
| Revolution | 4 | 1 | Jun 2023 |
The typical round is $1.4M — half were bigger, half smaller.
The biggest Travel and Hospitality funding rounds in the United States
Highlights the largest disclosed round—Air Lease’s $1 billion Series B—and lists ten other large recent funding events.
| Company | Round | Size | When | Backers |
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| Air Lease | Series Bmega-round | $1B | Jul 2010 | — |
| Air Lease | Series Amega-round | $260M | May 2010 | — |
| Series B | $200M | Aug 2021 | Knighthead Capital Management, BlackRock | |
| Series C | $200M | Oct 2015 | — | |
| Series B | $145M | Jun 2022 | Hanwha, Hanwha Aerospace | |
| Air Lease | Series A | $128.9M | Jun 2010 | — |
| Series C | $121.3M | Oct 2019 | — | |
| Series D | $121M | Oct 2019 | THE SHILLLA | |
| Angel | $120M | Feb 2013 | Vijay Mallya | |
| Series C | $115M | Jan 2019 | Whitman Peterson |
90 venture rounds with a disclosed amount in the window.
Series B$3.9MApr 2026
Conventional Debt$300kApr 2026
Seed$75kFeb 2026
What the news says about Travel and Hospitality in the United States
Aggregates 3,952,361 news articles from the last year, most often covering administrative regions, geopolitical disputes, and international political relations.
What the coverage is about
The subjects that dominate Travel and Hospitality news in United States. The arrow shows whether each one is being written about more or less than a year ago.
- Administrative and political subdivisions4,359,363▲+20%
- Geopolitical disputes and contested areas320,885▲+34%
- International and transnational geographic entities320,699▲+34%
- International political relations243,578▲+32%
- Security and defense policies179,026▲+54%
- College athletics news157,190▼-30%
- Professional league updates117,819▼-12%
- International sports competitions114,512▼-11%
- International relations and diplomacy107,505▲+20%
- Trade policies and agreements89,076→+7%
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164 Travel and Hospitality companies here were named in the news over this period.
Watch Travel and Hospitality coverage in United States as it happens
Prism follows these subjects story by story — which companies are named, what is said about them and how the tone moves.
Momentum
The words getting louder — and quieter
Which terms are showing up in more stories than a year ago, and which are fading. The percentage is the change in how many articles mention them.
The pressures the press keeps returning to
Three recurring angles in United States Travel and Hospitality coverage, and whether each is getting more attention year on year (through 2025).
Travel and Hospitality jobs in the United States: who is hiring and what they ask for
Records 56,614 job postings from 1,578 employers in the past year, with common skill requirements like Excel and a median advertised salary of $45 k per year.
Demand
The Skills Employers Ask For
What Travel and Hospitality employers in the United States put in their job ads. The bar is how many postings ask for it; the arrow shows whether demand grew or shrank against the year before.
- excel597▲
- microsoft office486▲
- word334▲
- valid driver\'s license297→
- driver\'s license268→
- python248▲
- graphics224▲
- shipping223▲
- signs220▲
- order systems199▲
- Manager$74k/yr (n=1276)
- Senior$83k/yr (n=311)
- Entry$52k/yr (n=456)
- Lead$120k/yr (n=115)
- Intern$38k/yr (n=78)
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