AI Is Eating Travel
Travel & hospitality has entered a structural shift — driven by AI, automation, new distribution paradigms, changing ownership and Web3.
These shifts rarely happen overnight. They build beneath the surface until new business models and opportunities become obvious.
Tectris exists to spot them early and turn them into practical opportunities.
About Us
We are a network of entrepreneurs, operators, investors and technology specialists with roots in travel, venture capital, AI & Web3, and consulting.
We work with existing businesses, build new ventures and selectively pursue opportunities where our industry knowledge and network can create significant value.
More Than One Tool
Different business problems require different approaches.
Tectris works across strategy, growth, distribution, technology, AI, venture building and business transformation.
Sometimes we advise. Sometimes we build. Sometimes we become operationally involved.
The opportunity determines the tool and team.
From Advice to Ownership
Advise
We help travel, hospitality & leisure companies solve strategic, commercial and operational challenges.
Build
We develop ventures, products, AI tools and new business models — independently or with partners.
Transform
We selectively explore smaller companies and assets where technology, AI or operational improvement can unlock additional value.
Startup investments remain a separate activity and are primarily pursued through Falkensteiner Ventures and our business angels network.
Leveraging AI
AI is not the proposition. It is one of the most powerful tools in our toolbox, alongside our network.
We use AI to automate workflows, build tools, prototype products, test new ventures faster and improve existing businesses.
Our focus is simple: Practical applications with measurable business value.
How We Create Value
Business Opportunities
Selective acquisitions, succession situations, distressed assets and strategic partnerships where we see a clear path to value creation.
Venture Building
From early concept to fast prototype, market validation and real business.
Technology & AI
Tools, automation and AI-enabled solutions designed around actual operating problems.
Advisory
Strategy, business models, growth, distribution, partnerships and transformation for established and emerging travel, hospitality & leisure businesses.
The Accelerator Continues
Tectris started as one of the first dedicated Web3 accelerators for Travel & Hospitality. That heritage remains an important part of who we are.
AI and Web3 aren't just parallel trends—they are a chemical reaction driving a completely new digital era.
The Team
Entrepreneurs, operators, builders, Travel & Hospitality experts and investors.
Mike Sung
Mike brings 20+ years of travel and hospitality experience across operations, technology and innovation. He led hundreds of PMS implementations at Oracle Hospitality and held product leadership roles at startups including Nor1, HospitalityPulse and LodgIQ. In Silicon Valley, he helped connect startups with the industry through Plug and Play’s Travel & Hospitality accelerator.
Beat Blaser
Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Falkensteiner Ventures, overseeing a diverse portfolio of travel and hospitality tech startups. He previously served as MD at Thomas Cook for their City/Domestic tour operator platform. Beat currently holds board positions in several startups and established companies across Europe's travel and hospitality sector.
Luca De Giglio
Trips Community DAO, Adormo
Luca has worked in vacation rentals since 2001 and was an early digital nomad, travel blogger and crypto adopter. Through Trips Community, he focuses on Web3’s role in travel. He is also a Director of the Origin Protocol Foundation, author and host of the “Web3 in Travel” podcast.
Pablo Castillo
Former CIO and Executive Board member of Hotelplan Group with 20+ years in travel and a track record of delivering complex technology projects. After roles across international travel companies, he co-founded Chain4Travel in 2021 and helped launch Camino, the Layer 1 blockchain built for the global travel industry.
Ceyhun Şahin
Ceyhun combines quantitative finance with deep Web3 expertise. A former quantitative trader, he is pursuing a Master of Finance focused on Web3 and blockchain at TUM while working as a researcher at ennea capital partners. He has been active in crypto since 2017 as an algorithmic trader and researcher.