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Startup pitch: Generation Voyage wants to aggregate tours and activities

By Linda Fox | June 26, 2017

The tours and activities sector is hard to crack. The market is fragmented and the millions of providers aren't necessarily sophisticated when it comes to technology. Enter France-based Generation Read More

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Tours and activities growing up as training and standards go online

By Stephen Joyce | December 1, 2016

A big challenge facing the tours and activities sector continues to be the non-standardized nature of guide and tour leader training. When a traveller books a tour or experience, there are few indi Read More

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Startup pitch: Clickatick opens ticketing platform to organise the SME tours and activities sector

By Linda Fox | November 25, 2016

Clickatick has just launched its beta service - a ticketing platform to bring small to medium sized tours and activities providers into the online world. The Estonia-based startup, accessible via d Read More

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Startup pitch: PicThrive and the final touchpoint in tours and activities

By Linda Fox | November 1, 2016

PicThrive helps tours and activities providers offer customers an easy way to buy and share images and videos after their experience. The startup recently graduated from Travelport Labs. The accele Read More

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Startup pitch: Korea's Yana Trip targets adventurous travellers from APAC

By Martin Cowen | October 24, 2016

South Korea has one of the world's most tech-savvy, social media using, smartphone-enabled, superfast broadband connected populations. We Are Social's mega-meta-research, Digital 2016, has South Ko Read More

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Time Out acquires events platform YPlan for £1.6 million

By Linda Fox | October 21, 2016

Just three months post Initial Public Offering and Time Out Group has made its first acquisition. The company, which specialises in city and restaurant guides, has bought events platform YPlan for Read More

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Musement marches ahead with Regiondo deal

By Sean O'Neil | October 19, 2016

Musement, the Italy-based startup, has been on the march since its €5 million funding round 18 months ago. The startup says it has been finding traction, having begun with a tours-and-activities fo Read More

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Google debuts Trips, a mobile app to plan travel itineraries faster

By Sean O'Neil | September 19, 2016

Today Google launches its first all-in-one travel app, Google Trips. The free app aims to be a personalized tour guide available for Android or Apple devices. The most powerful trick of Google Trip Read More

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TripAdvisor offers attractions content for partners

By Linda Fox | September 14, 2016

TripAdvisor and its tours and activities brand Viator are providing an attractions content tool to hotels and travel companies. The technology enables the travel partners to offer local tours and e Read More

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Excursiopedia becomes PlanetPass, starts small with guided tours

By Linda Fox | August 24, 2016

Tours and activities specialist Excursiopedia has morphed into PlanetPass, a mobile application that helps consumers find guided tours in destinations. PlanetPass is now available for London with a Read More

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Peek raises $10 million in new financing

By Sean O'Neil | July 28, 2016

Tours and activities startup Peek has raised $10 million in fresh investment, bringing its total financing to $18 million. This latest financing round for the San Francisco-based startup includes i Read More

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Lessons for tour operators in the wake of #Zervocalypse

By Stephen Joyce | July 5, 2016

Yep, I went there. I just gave what happened to hundreds of small businesses on the fourth of July long weekend, a name. Why? Because it was an apocalypse of sorts. Hundreds of small businesses wer Read More

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Tours tech company Zerve may swerve toward a shutdown

By Sean O'Neil | June 30, 2016

Zerve, a New York-based seller of cloud-based platform that lets merchants sell tickets for tours, activities and events, has said it will likely close soon. In an email to customers, it said: "Ov Read More

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Moving beyond tour booking, Zozi adds ticketing for events, museums

By Sean O'Neil | May 26, 2016

Zozi, the software provider for the experiences market, thinks that bringing its reservation and distribution tools to events, museums, attractions, and festivals may be the ticket to both expansion a Read More

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Rakuten led the $5 million investment in Xola, the activities booking software startup

By Sean O'Neil | April 27, 2016

In February we reported that tours-and-activities software provider Xola had secured a $6 million capital-raise, according to a financial filing -- which did not reveal the main backer. Today Rakut Read More

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