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BeMyGuest raises $800,000, wants GDSs to help spread activities to consumers

By Karthick Prabu | June 9, 2014

BeMyGuest, a Singapore-based tours and activities marketplace, has raised $800,000 seed after winning a TV startup competition. The Start-UP Asia competition on regional station ChannelNews Asia sa Read More

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Startup pitch: Well funded Musement helps travelers skip queues at top sights

By Sean O'Neil | June 9, 2014

Musement is a new tours and activities site and app that aims to help travelers book tickets to popular local attractions on demand or in advance. This startup in Milan currently offers admission t Read More

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Startup pitch: Booking Boss aims to be the benchmark booking system for tours and activities

By Karthick Prabu | June 6, 2014

Booking Boss is entering a busy market with an integrated reservations system for tours, activities and attraction operators. The company says it ensures real-time inventory and pricing, instant bo Read More

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Voyages-SNCF pursues tours and activities with OpenJaw tie-up

By Linda Fox | June 2, 2014

Voyages-SNCF is working with OpenJaw Technologies to enable the OTA to offer tours and activities packages online. Using OpenJaw's t-Retail platform, the online travel agency has developed Instants Read More

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WaterPlay, reservation system for water T&A, splashes out with $400k seed round

By Nick Vivion | May 19, 2014

WaterPlay USA, a reservation system focused exclusively on water-based tours and activities, has announced a $400k seed round. The company uses TourCMS as the tech underpinnings for the service, wh Read More

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Wake up everyone - TripAdvisor lives up to its name, focuses on entire trip

By Linda Fox | May 7, 2014

Announcements have come thick and fast from TripAdvisor in the past week, right up to its earnings call last night, which showed positive growth for the quarter. And yet despite entering 2014 "firi Read More

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Activity concierge Sosh reduces friction with OpenTable integration

By Nick Vivion | April 15, 2014

Sosh, the human-powered city concierge app that curates activities and events, has integrated with OpenTable to book tables at restaurants. The integration is unique, insofar as it allows users to Read More

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Intrepid Travel picks up remaining stake in Urban Adventures

By Linda Fox | April 10, 2014

Moves in the tours and activities sector this morning as Intrepid Travel acquires the remaining stake in Thailand-based Urban Adventures. Urban Adventures (TLabs here) was set up in late 2009 as a Read More

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Startup pitch: Kamino brings hikes and urban walks to smartphones

By Nick Vivion | April 7, 2014

An emerging travel startup called Kamino is opening up a refreshing take on the activity front: a crowdsourced travel app that brings the best walking tours to smartphones on the go. The self-funde Read More

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Entertainment Benefits takes on Peek and Viator with Plum merger

By Nick Vivion | April 2, 2014

Specialized distribution specialists Entertainment Benefits Group has announced a merger with local New York competitor Plum Benefits. Entertainment Benefits is not often in the news; it primarily Read More

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Japanese tours and activities service Catarizm raises $2 million

By Karthick Prabu | April 2, 2014

Catarizm, the company that runs Asoview, a Tokyo-based online booking service for tours and activities, has raised $1.93 million from Globis Capital Partners and Jafco Ventures. The company will us Read More

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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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Tours and activities service Rent-a-guide acquires its competitor LocalGuiding

By Karthick Prabu | March 6, 2014

Germany-based tours and activities marketplace Rent-a-guide has acquired its local competitor LocalGuiding. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. LocalGuiding was founded by Robert Blessing, Read More

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Peek brings in $5 million to push further into tours and activities

By Nick Vivion | March 5, 2014

Tours and activities startup Peek has added $5 million in investment, bringing its total haul to $6.4 million. The initial round was supported by Jack Dorsey, Eric Schmidt, SV Angel, Khosla Venture Read More

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