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Done deal: GetYourGuide buys Gidsy
By Kevin May
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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.
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TripAdvisor eyes next move on travel Rubik's Cube: Mobile destination services, tours and activities
By Kevin May
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March 20, 2013
Think the big boys in travel are not taking tours and activities seriously? Might need to think again.
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Isango white labels to continue as TUI takes over, but Qantas switches to Viator within days
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March 15, 2013
The work at TUI to integrate its latest acquisition has started, with the company claiming one of its primary motives for buying Isango was for its technology.
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TUI Travel buys tours and activities specialist Isango
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February 27, 2013
Tours and activities just got that little bit more interesting with news that European tour operating giant TUI Travel has bought tours and activities provider Isango.
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GetYourGuide to be sole provider of tours and activities to TUI agents
By Kevin May
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February 25, 2013
Travel agents working with TUI in Germany will have their pick of tours and activities by way of a new supplier after the tour operator turned over responsibility to GetYouGuide.
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The Scan - Inside Iberostar, Wego extends, Amazon Redshift and more travel tech news
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February 20, 2013
Iberostar, Hotelbeds, Egencia, Wego, eRevMax, GetYourGuide, Etihad- Jet Airways, JetBlue, SITA, mobile in China, Viator, TradeDoubler, 3rd Planet, Amazon Redshift, Southwest Airlines, Sweetbeam and...
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Kayak ends tours and activities on mobile via GetYourGuide, cites low popularity with users
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February 15, 2013
Mobile users with tours and activities - a perfect match, right? Perhaps not so obvious after all, with Kayak deciding to end its partner deal with GetYourGuide.
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And then there were three - TripAdvisor quietly adds more tour and activity suppliers
By Kevin May
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January 10, 2013
If tours and activities are the next big thing in online travel, then TripAdvisor is taking note - by adding a third supplier of products in recent weeks in the form of Viator.
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GetYourGuide raises $14M for tours and activities push in new markets
By Kevin May
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January 7, 2013
In what could be one of the biggest investments so far in the growing online tours and activities sector, GetYourGuide has grabbed $14 million from Spark Capital and Highland Capital Partners Europe.
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Come on, travel startups: Please innovate and stop replicating!
By Viewpoints
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November 19, 2012
The travel industry is flooded with venture capital investment. Millions of Dollars and Euros are poured into a multitude of travel startups all the time.
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The economics of peer-to-peer travel marketplaces and collaborative consumption [Part 2 of 2]
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July 11, 2012
Now is the time to look more deeply into supply and demand sides of this sector, including the key enablers for such business models.
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The economics of peer-to-peer travel marketplaces and collaborative consumption [Part 1 of 2]
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July 6, 2012
Peer-to-peer marketplaces are popular at the moment. Having attained web fame in second-hand marketplaces (eBay), they have now become popular business models from accommodation (Airbnb) to tours and...
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Are small tourism businesses really ready for the mobile revolution?
By Stephen Joyce
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June 26, 2012
For years we’ve been told that "this year will be the year of mobile". Unfortunately, for many of us, this tiresome line became mundane and predictable years ago.
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What Else? GetYouGuide goes cruising, ConTGo eats, Wego in UAE, IFE upgrades
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April 30, 2012
GetYourGuide targets shore excursions, ConTGo secures US Foods corp travel account, Wego claims UAE first, IFE rejigs website ... What else is happening in travel tech around the world...
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Yes! Time to enjoy the bounty from the technology-led tour and activity sector
By Viewpoints
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March 20, 2012
The news that European startup GetYourGuide has secured $2m in funding (and from an impressive list of travel-savvy investors) should be welcomed by incumbents in the tours and activities marketplace.
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