Walid El-Jales
Founder & CEO, 60 Travel AI
Walid El-Jales is the founder and CEO of 60 Travel AI, a company built for the Gulf travel market — based in Cairo, Egypt — whose AI agents turn a client's message into a complete, approved quotation for travel agencies, on the agency's own supplier credentials, with the owner in control of every quote. He has seventeen years in tourism — twelve of them inside Gulf B2B travel operations. Integration and onboarding work with more than 160 suppliers, booking platforms and payment providers.
Those years left an eleven-year documented archive: 83,100+ bookings documented by his own hand, 4,400+ travel companies and 6,100+ industry contacts known by name, 44,700+ travelers served across 725+ cities in 113 countries, and 2,400,000+ WhatsApp work messages and more than 271,000 emails behind them. Behind it all sits the operating school: an estimated 1.3M+ further bookings passed through desks and operations he ran or supervised. Documented and estimated are counted separately, always.
60 Travel AI has been selected for the startup programs of four major technology providers.
Publishes the Gulf Outbound Hotel Index — doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21796038
Writes about Gulf travel demand on the blog
Career
Founder & CEO — 60 Travel AI
Building AI agents that run a travel agency's actual operation: a client's message in, a complete, approved quotation out — on the agency's own supplier credentials.
Operations & Integration Manager — a Kuwaiti travel wholesaler (about a year and a half)
Global supplier integrations, API troubleshooting, and daily booking audits.
Operations & Integration Lead — a Kuwaiti travel wholesaler (about two and a half years)
Led a system integration after which the wholesaler's daily volume tripled — from an average of 500 bookings to 1,500 — and trained more than 200 travel agents.
Senior Operations Executive — a Kuwaiti B2B travel wholesaler (six years)
Net rates and agency-network operations.
Tour leader, European inbound markets — Red Sea (five years)
Working with UK, French, German, Belgian and Italian operators.
Education & languages
Licence (BA) in Italian Language, with French as a second foreign language — Faculty of Al-Alsun (the specialized languages faculty), Minia University. Graduated Very Good with Honours (84.86%), ranked first in his department — a result noted in the local press at the time.
His graduation thesis, written and defended in Italian, examined the characters of Dante's Inferno — “Personaggi nell'Inferno Dantesco”.
Languages: Arabic (native), English, and Italian.
Engineering
A self-taught engineer: TypeScript, Node.js, MongoDB, REST APIs, and AI agent development on frontier AI models — the entire product built AI-natively since August 2025. Holds the Udacity Full Stack Development certificate.
GDS-certified since 2014.
Hands-on experience across major GDS and travel-platform APIs, built over seventeen years in tourism — twelve of them inside Gulf B2B travel operations.