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Can the newbies of tours and activities sweep aside the old kids on the block?

By Viewpoints | March 13, 2014

Recent fundraising by GetYourGuide and Peek is good news for the tours and activities sector. These investments reflect the growing awareness that "the things you do when you get there" are a crucial Read More

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Tours and activities comes of age - but challenges may take an age to fix

By Kevin May | March 13, 2014

There is so much talk about the tours and activities sector in online travel that it had to eventually feature at a major travel conference. And so the PhoCusWright gig at ITB in Berlin last week s Read More

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Rezdy raises $1 million, opens US office as overseas interest grows

By Karthick Prabu | February 10, 2014

Rezdy has attracted $1 million from new and existing investors, including Menulog's CEO and founder Leon Kamenev (ex-founder of HotelClub), and Art of Online Marketing's (AOOM) founder Chloe Lim. I Read More

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GetYourGuide woos ex-Booking.com boss and others to invest $4.5M

By Kevin May | January 30, 2014

More investment capital pouring into Getyourguide - this time in the shape of $4.5 million from Kees Koolen and Fritz Demopoulos, ex-respective CEOs of Booking.com and Qunar. The latest round comes Read More

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Startup pitch: Eoasia enables travellers to book Asian tours and activities online

By Karthick Prabu | January 22, 2014

Booking tours and activities online is a hot trend in the Asian travel industry alongside taxi mobile app services that are attracting millions in funding. In the past few years, a number of startu Read More

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Startup pitch: Tourlandish wants to bring Asia Pacific tours and activities online

By Karthick Prabu | January 16, 2014

A new entrant to the multi-billion dollar tours and activities ecosystem is Bangalore-based startup - Tourlandish. The startup provides a global marketplace for tours and activities service provide Read More

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All signs continue to point north for tours and activities

By Karthick Prabu | October 17, 2013

It seems everybody wants a piece of the tours and activities pie right now with developments across major online travel agencies, other intermediaries and startups. Details are emerging from a PhoC Read More

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Vayable pivots from guide marketplace to trip concierge

By Sean O'Neil | August 23, 2013

The US-based startup has unveiled its revamped website, which emphasizes its June pivot from being a destination tours and activities marketplace to a custom tours and vacations search engine.... Read More

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GetYourGuide makes second acquisition, snaps up iGottaGuide

By Kevin May | July 31, 2013

GetYourGuide is flexing its business development muscles once again after agreeing to buy the assets of peer-to-peer activity service iGottaGuide. Read More

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Travspire wants to inspire travellers to experience handpicked activities

By Karthick Prabu | July 12, 2013

Even when the travel industry is trying to go online, be digitally accessible, trying to offer all services online, taking advantage of SoLoMo features, we have a startup that goes back to basics. Read More

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How much is on the table with destination services for travel companies? [Hint: it's huge]

By Kevin May | July 2, 2013

A study by Euromonitor estimated the total leisure spend on travel and destination-related products was a massive Euro 2.5 trillion during 2012. Read More

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Trip4real aims to connect Spanish locals with travellers

By Karthick Prabu | June 3, 2013

Trip4real, Spain-based peer to peer platform aims to connect locals with travellers to offer unique and authentic experience. Read More

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No need to cry about the Berlin startup scene after the GetYourGuide-Gidsy deal

By PhocusWire | April 30, 2013

Last week news arrived that Gidsy, the de facto poster-child of the Berlin startup scene was being acquired and subsumed by fellow Berlin travel experience platform GetYourGuide. Read More

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Done deal: GetYourGuide buys Gidsy

By Kevin May | April 24, 2013

More interesting moves in the tours and activities wing of the industry as GetYourGuide makes its first acquisition and snaps up fellow European startup Gidsy. Read More