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Startup pitch: Experitus is a travel experience marketplace

By Sean O'Neil | May 21, 2015

Experitus is a marketplace for locals and guides to sell short lessons in their hobbies and careers to visitors at a destination. The startup, founded in Ukraine but shifting its offices west, beli Read More

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TripAdvisor ramps up attractions strategy, shows why it splashed out $200 million on Viator

By Kevin May | March 20, 2015

TripAdvisor is embarking on a major strategy to woo providers of tours and activities to the platform, with promises of direct sales to consumers. Existing operators that are members of TripAdvisor Read More

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Anne Frank House protests GetYourGuide queue-hopping offer

By Sean O'Neil | March 18, 2015

In recent months, GetYourGuide, the Germany-based tours-and-activities platform, has been reselling advance tickets to Anne Frank House, in Amsterdam, at double the price the museum charges on its own Read More

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Ich bin ein Berliner - THack brings travel hackathon roadshow to Germany

By Kevin May | February 20, 2015

Do you have an idea for a digital innovation in travel? Can you code a working mobile or web application in 24 hours that helps travelers discover, enhance or share their journey? Does your origina Read More

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Trekksoft raises $1.1 million, claims tours and activities not ready for disruption

By Kevin May | January 27, 2015

Switzerland-based tours and activities system provider Trekksoft has secured a further $1.1 million in investment. The latest round brings the total invested in the company to $2.8 million over the Read More

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The reality of distribution in tours and activities

By Stephen Joyce | January 13, 2015

I write this article in the hope that someday soon the reality of distribution in the tours and activities space will change, and change dramatically. For years I've been advocating for increased d Read More

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Pivotal moments in 2014: tours and activities (finally) on the radar

By Stephen Joyce | December 23, 2014

It's hard not to think of tours and activities in 2014 without recalling two critical moments. The first is undoubtedly the purchase of Viator by TripAdvisor, signalling a pivotal moment in the tou Read More

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The tours and activities sector will be carved up

By Viewpoints | December 9, 2014

I have never been super excited about the tours and activities category. But what exactly made me uneasy wasn’t made clear until recently, when a friend with a tours and activities startup asked fo Read More

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Rezdy confirms offline dominates tours and activities bookings

By Martin Cowen | October 31, 2014

Australian tours and activities platform Rezdy has released some stats from its clients which show that offline bookings are still way ahead of online, with mobile's share of these online bookings inc Read More

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Auf wiedersehen, GetYourGuide - TripAdvisor starts trimming suppliers of tours and activities

By Kevin May | September 24, 2014

TripAdvisor has removed GetYourGuide as a provider of product from its tours and activity channels. It is unclear when the agreement ended with GetYourGuide, the European-based supplier of inventor Read More

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GetYourGuide raises $25 million as tours and activities take centre stage

By Kevin May | July 31, 2014

Who said tours and activities is a tricky sector? Not TripAdvisor, it seems, nor GetYourGuide after raising $25 million in Series B. The latest injection comes via Spark Capital and Highland Capita Read More

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TripAdvisor acquires Viator, the tours and activities agency, for $200M

By Sean O'Neil | July 24, 2014

Viator, one of the largest online tours-and-activities booking agencies, said today that it has been acquired by TripAdvisor, the user-reviews giant, for approximately $200 million -- mostly in cash. Read More

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Tying up the loose ends in tours and activities

By Viewpoints | July 22, 2014

The online tours and activities space has gained notable attention from the media recently. We have seen articles covering newcomers on the market in addition to discussions of the current issues and Read More

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Startup pitch: TripleLights connects foreign visitors with professional guides in Japan

By Karthick Prabu | May 26, 2014

TripleLights helps visitors to Japan by connecting them with professional tour guides by claiming it removes the possibility of a bad experience. The Tokyo-based company has government licensed tou Read More

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Dear tour operators, welcome to 2014 - online reviews drive bookings

By Viewpoints | April 25, 2014

I feel a bit like a dinosaur. I’ve been in the user generated content (UGC) game since before the words "social Media", "Web 2.0", "Facebook" or "Twitter" existed. NB: This is a guest article by Tr Read More

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