Sylvain Caucheteux | Creating the Largest Travel Guide API | Cirkwi

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Sylvain Caucheteux is an entrepreneur and a tourism marketing guru. He is the co-CEO of Cirkwi, a French company that offers a database of over 3.5 million POIs and over 22,000 guidebooks to tourism professionals in any language required.

Sylvain always had an affinity for tourism and decided to make a career out of it. For Sylvain, tourism can offer a unique and sophisticated service, one that is entirely different than a physical product. It has the power to re-energize any individual and re-unite families. Before joining Cirkwi, Sylvain led in sales and marketing for European and worldwide leaders in the industry : Club Med, Pierre et Vacances and Belambra Clubs.

In 2018, he met Benoît Milan, the founder and co-CEO of Cirkwi, and his entrepreneurial journey finally took place. At the time, the company offered a platform with information on walks and hikes in France and Benelux that had already conquered 800 websites in France and Benelux. Fast forward to the summer of 2020 and Cirwki launches their StoryGuide widgets and API, based on a tourism search engine engine and content library. Through their service, Hotels, Tourism Offices, Tour Operators, Airlines, etc. can now offer their users curtailed information near their destination, and boost direct bookings. Cirkwi is on the race to become the Google of tourism, and it hasn’t shown any signs of slowing down!

If you are a tourism professional, you can find more information on their widgets and API here: https://pro.cirkwi.com/