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VIDEO: New Reality With... Johannes Reck of GetYourGuide
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November 24, 2020
The next guest on the New Reality With... series is Johannes Reck, CEO and co-founder of GetYourGuide, one of the world's leading online travel agencies for tours and activities.
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GetYourGuide activates €114M financing round
By Kevin May
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October 29, 2020
The round was led by Searchlight Capital and backed by a string of other finance houses and the Germany-based company's founding team.
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Sounding Off: Try as you may, you can't escape reality
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October 16, 2020
As dark as that March to June period was for people, travel brands and society, companies need more than a ballsy approach to ensure their survival as COVID-19 carries on.
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GetYourGuide lands aviation's first in-flight destination activities booking deal
By Kevin May
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October 16, 2020
The agreement with Spanish digital cabin services provider Immfly will put search and booking tools into IFE devices on airlines, allowing functionality even when aircraft are out of range of...
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GetYourGuide makes deep workforce cuts as pandemic reality bites
By Kevin May
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October 14, 2020
Around 90 employees at GetYourGuide are being let go as part of a program to reset the business in the midst of ongoing uncertainty in the travel industry.
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GetYourGuide claims it invested in the future to save the present
By Linda Fox
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September 28, 2020
While many companies will have spent the past six months somewhere between firefighting or going into hibernation, GetYourGuide decided to continue investing in its strategy.
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Phocuswright Europe 2020 preview: Out of Office with... Sean Seton-Rogers
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August 20, 2020
In a series of interviews with executives participating in the online event in September, PhocusWire finds out what they have learned from the Covid-19 crisis. Next up: PROfounders Capital' Sean...
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Google plays hardball with pandemic-affected travel site, freezes its ad account
By Mitra Sorrells
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August 19, 2020
According to a travel executive, Google froze his company's advertising accounts when it was unable to pay its Q1 invoices on time.
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Tours and activities brands plot recovery with at-home experiences, crowd-control measures
By Jill Menze
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May 27, 2020
In response to the coronavirus crisis, Klook is launching virtual experiences as part of a multi-stage recovery plan, while competitor GetYourGuide is building crowd-control technology.
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Behind GetYourGuide's strategy of zero bookings and zero layoffs
By Mitra Sorrells
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April 29, 2020
The Berlin-based tours and activities brand has implemented voluntary reductions in hours and pay for more than half of its employees to cut expenses at a time when it expects no new revenue.
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How does a decimated activities sector find a route to recovery, part 1
By Peter Syme - 1000 Mile Journeys
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April 23, 2020
The coronavirus crisis is affecting all aspects of the tours and activities sector - but some more than others.
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Online booking rates for activities halve and cancellations jump by a fifth due to coronavirus
By Kevin May
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March 11, 2020
The gloomy business outcome of the spread of the virus to more than 100 countries around the world, including some of Europe's big tourist hotspots such as Italy, which is now on lockdown, has ignited...
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VIDEO: Standards, sustainability and big tech investments in tours and activities
By Kevin May
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January 9, 2020
Joining us for a panel discussion in the PhocusWire Studio were Luuc Elzinga, CEO at Tiqets, and Alex Kremer, co-founder at Arival.
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Travel startup investments 2019 - a year in review
By Steven Lerner
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December 11, 2019
Investors were pouring money into travel startups in 2019. Here's where that money went.
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Sounding Off: Google will have the lunch of tours and activities as well
By PhocusWire
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November 29, 2019
It is only a question of time before Google seeks to build out an ecosystem in tours and activities that mirrors its efforts in hotels and flights.
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