About the challenge

Come build the future of travel and hospitality in a single day. Checkout is NYC's first travel-themed hackathon — a one-day, in-person sprint where founders, engineers, and designers team up in the morning, build all afternoon, and demo real products to founder-judges by evening.

Checkout is about shipping something real, not slideware. Travel and hospitality is one of the biggest industries in the world and one of the most underbuilt in software — from clunky booking flows to hotels running on decades-old systems. We're looking for working products that make travel or hospitality genuinely better. We're not looking for polished pitch decks with nothing behind them, or projects you built last month and dusted off for today.

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Your challenge: ship something real that makes travel or hospitality better — in one day. Pick one of four tracks and go.

AI trip planning — agents and copilots for booking, itineraries, and personalized travel
Hotel & hospitality ops — front desk, guest experience, revenue management, back-of-house
Local & experiences — discovery, tours, restaurants, events, the on-the-ground trip
Sustainability & the future of travel — green travel, accessibility, how people move and stay

Requirements

What to Build

Build a working product in one of the four tracks (AI trip planning, hotel & hospitality ops, local & experiences, or sustainability & the future of travel). Your submission should be a working prototype you can demo. Everything must be built during the event.

You'll present a 2–3 minute live demo to the judges if selected.

What to Submit

On your Devpost project page, include:

Project name and description
What you built and why — the problem and your approach
Team member names and roles
Link to your live demo

Checkout - The Travel & Hospitality Hackathon

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