rategain travel announced that Sylvia Weiler, President and General Manager of Global Destinations at its subsidiary Sojern, has been named a 2026 honoree in AdExchanger's Top Women in Media and Ad Tech Awards. Weiler was recognized in the Sell-Side Tech Trailblazers category, marking the first time a Sojern executive has received this honor.

Weiler has over two decades of experience in travel, hospitality, and advertising technology. She previously held leadership roles at Tripadvisor, Airbnb, and Travelocity before returning to Sojern earlier this year to lead the destinations line of business. During her prior tenure at Sojern, she established the company's destination programmatic advertising business and developed an economic impact measurement framework for destination marketing organizations.

Strategic Impact

The recognition highlights the strategic value of Sojern's destination marketing capabilities within RateGain's portfolio. Weiler's work shifted industry focus from impressions and clicks to measurable visitor spending and economic outcomes. Her commercial track record includes building the destination programmatic business from the ground up and mentoring more than 15 emerging women leaders across the industry.

Mark Rabe, CEO of Sojern, noted that the award reflects the impact Weiler has had not only at Sojern but across the broader industry. Honorees will be celebrated at the Top Women in Media and Ad Tech Awards Gala on November 3, 2026, in New York City.

RateGain Travel Technologies Limited has been named the Fastest Growing SaaS Company at The Economic Times Enterprise AI Awards 2026. The recognition highlights the company's scale in enterprise artificial intelligence for the travel sector.

The award was presented on September 18, 2026. An independent jury assessed entries based on growth in annual recurring revenue, user growth, customer retention and engagement, and the scale of enterprise and small business adoption.

Market Reach and Data Scale

RateGain operates with a significant share of global travel distribution. The company works with 33 of the world's top 40 hotel chains, four of the top five airlines, and seven of the top ten car rental companies. It also serves 25 Global Fortune 500 companies.

The platform connects more than 200,000 properties to over 700 demand partners. It processes more than 231 billion availability, rate and inventory data points each year. This volume provides a broad view of how travel is priced and distributed globally.

Strategic Data Integration

In March 2026, RateGain consolidated its marketing technology capabilities under Sojern. This addition integrated the world's largest source of travel intent data with its existing inventory data.

Bhanu Chopra, Founder and Managing Director, stated that this combination allows customers to make pricing, distribution and marketing decisions from a single view of the traveller. He noted that as the customer base grows, the data generated across the network strengthens the AI models, creating a compounding advantage.

What the Numbers Show

The company's competitive position relies heavily on data density rather than just software features. Processing 231 billion data points annually while serving 33 of the top 40 hotel chains indicates a high concentration of market share among industry leaders. This suggests that RateGain's AI models are trained on a disproportionate share of global travel transactions compared to competitors who may have broader but shallower data sets.

About the Awards

The Enterprise AI Awards 2026 recognize organizations driving measurable business transformation through artificial intelligence. Categories span AI products, enterprise adoption, responsible AI and industry-specific innovation.