Lila — your organiser
Hello, I'm Lila. Tell me who you are — I'll show you what I can do for you.
En savoir plusSmilin' accompanies each guest from inspiration to booking, all the way to the memory. A premium travel & lifestyle companion, unique in Mauritius, combining editorial taste with AI-driven recommendations — to put the right audiences in front of the right places, at the right moments.
Rooms, tables, experiences and well-being orchestrated on one interface — with cross-traffic between partners no isolated tool can offer.
Automation and AI cut our costs — the difference goes in your pocket, not ours.
Recommendations, alerts, adaptive ratings: every decision is driven by data, not intuition.
Full transparency on what is collected and why. Never used to pit partners against each other — always to strengthen each one.
Data Protection Act compliance, visibility with international travellers before they even arrive — and Indian Ocean expansion our earliest partners will benefit from first.
Travellers centralise their whole trip in Smilin' — even what they didn't book with us: flight tickets, documents, external bookings. And Lila watches the details: recommended vaccines, luggage sizes, card-linked insurance. Your offers live where travellers organise everything.
Today you have to search, compare, book, and pay across different platforms… then reorganise everything elsewhere. Too many steps. Too much dispersion. Not enough flow.
We wanted to reinvent that experience.
Smilin' brings together in one place everything that makes a trip succeed: carefully selected places, unique experiences, and navigation designed to be simple, natural, obvious.
But above all, Smilin' accompanies you.
With Lila.
Lila understands your desires, adapts to your tastes and guides you at every moment of your stay, with personalised, relevant suggestions, always at the right time.
And at the heart of it all, your wallet.
A unique space where your journey comes to life: your bookings, your payments, your experiences, your perks… everything is centralised, accessible, perfectly organised.
No more searching. No more juggling.
Everything is there. Everything flows. Everything is designed for you.
With Smilin', you no longer manage your trip.
You simply live it.”
Give value back to those who create it — establishments, creators, the territory — by organising the journey end to end.
Become the reference companion of the Indian Ocean: one destination, one community, one intelligence growing with everyone.
Neither tourism platform nor marketplace: the region's first premium travel & lifestyle companion.
CEO & Founder
Strategy, finance and building high-value brands. French Flair & Smilin' Lifestyle.
COO
Operations, partnerships and Smilin's commercial rollout in Mauritius.
GM — Constance Prince Maurice
Hands-on 5★ field expertise in Mauritius: service standards and offer calibration.
President — TIMHOTEL
Hotel-asset performance, distribution and European group vision.
Managing Director — ALBORAN Hospitality
International group culture and investment.
One founder, a COO at the operational helm, three practising hotel executives: sector credibility from day one.
Office & Operations Coordinator
Full-stack Developer
Product Developer
UI/UX Designer
Senior Software Engineer
AI & Software Engineer
Joining in September
French Flair is the technology group founded and owned by Sébastien Hugodot. It makes its key functions available: AI, data, engineering, finance and coordination.
Financial Direction & Structuring, Smilin’ × French Flair
Team Coordination, Smilin’ × French Flair
Administrative & Financial Manager
AI Engineer — Lila
Data Scientist
Between creator content, personalised suggestions, wishlists and effortless discovery of establishments, Smilin' inspires the user before they even start searching. Your listings gain visibility, desirability and booking intent on a single platform, instead of being lost among a multitude of sites.