Walid El-Jales
Founder & CEO, 60 Travel AI
Walid El-Jales is the founder and CEO of 60 Travel AI, a Kuwait-founded company whose AI agent turns WhatsApp travel requests into professional, comparable quotations for B2B travel agencies — with the owner in control of every quote. He has 17 years in the travel industry, around ten of them in B2B wholesale operations.
60 Travel AI has been selected for the startup programs of four major technology providers.
Career
Founder & CEO — 60 Travel AI
Building an AI travel operations agent for B2B agencies: one request in, one comparable, branded quotation out.
Operations & Integration Manager — a Kuwaiti travel wholesaler (about a year and a half)
More than 15 global supplier integrations, API troubleshooting, and daily booking audits.
Operations & Integration Lead — a Kuwaiti travel wholesaler (about two and a half years)
Led a platform migration — daily transactions up 150% — 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, Playwright, MongoDB, REST APIs, and MCP-based agent development. Holds the Udacity Front-End Web Development certificate.
Hands-on experience across major GDS and travel-platform APIs, built over a decade of wholesale operations work.