Tours & Activities

In partnership with

PhocusWire's in-depth coverage of the tours, activities and activities sector is produced in partnership with Arival, the essential resource for the in-destination experiences industry.

News / Distribution

ArrivalGuides partners with Tiqets for tours and activities

By Linda Fox | March 4, 2014

ArrivalGuides plans to offer online activities and events via a tie-up with business-to-business startup Tiqets. The B2B destination content specialist plans to make tours and activities as well as Read More

News / Distribution

Startup pitch: Sputnik8 shoots into tours and activities with big ambitions

By Linda Fox | February 17, 2014

Tours and activities continues to be a hot marketplace with many players - large and small, established and startups - looking to get in on the act. Enter Sputnik8, a project founded by Alexander K Read More

News

EUREKA! Where could your travel startup idea come from?

By Alex Bainbridge | February 3, 2014

Depending upon your pain threshold, running a travel startup is either the most rewarding challenge in your life or it can be a truly terrifying ordeal. Why? Because you lay forth your personal Read More

News

Travel domains going for (not exactly) a song

By Linda Fox | January 31, 2014

Update: Tour.com owner, WJ Lee, says he has had the domain for 10 years and is selling because he wants to concentrate on his other business. He was going to put a price tag of more than $3 million on Read More

News

Navigating the online travel landscape - a guide for startups

By Viewpoints | January 29, 2014

If you take a look at Travel Weekly’s top 50 travel companies there are a few familiar names. We all know Priceline, Expedia and Orbitz. But if you are shocked to find FC USA on that list (ahead of Read More

News / Online

Startup pitch: Eoasia enables travellers to book Asian tours and activities online

By Karthick Prabu | January 22, 2014

Booking tours and activities online is a hot trend in the Asian travel industry alongside taxi mobile app services that are attracting millions in funding. In the past few years, a number of startu Read More

News / Distribution

Google to close Schemer destination activity planning service

By Kevin May | January 20, 2014

[video_popup width="805" height="454" video_link="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LQn7hgloI4" video_image_link="https://www.tnooz.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/schemer.jpg"] Just two years after G Read More

News

Why an exit feels more like a new start - more lessons from travel startup land

By Viewpoints | January 16, 2014

Recently my company Travelatus joined tours and activities marketplace Excursiopedia and became part of a small company that’s got the potential to grow huge. NB: This is a viewpoint from Valentin Read More

News / Distribution

Startup pitch: Tourlandish wants to bring Asia Pacific tours and activities online

By Karthick Prabu | January 16, 2014

A new entrant to the multi-billion dollar tours and activities ecosystem is Bangalore-based startup - Tourlandish. The startup provides a global marketplace for tours and activities service provide Read More

News / Distribution

Tours and activities service BeMyGuest acquires Indiescapes

By Karthick Prabu | January 14, 2014

In an effort to expand its presence in South East Asia, Singapore-based tours and activities service provider BeMyGuest has acquired Indiescapes. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. This acqui Read More

News / Distribution

BeMyGuest attracts strategic investment from online agency Tidesquare

By Karthick Prabu | December 17, 2013

In an effort to expand its presence in South East Asia, South Korea's third largest OTA Tidesquare has made a strategic investment in Singapore-based tours and activities player BeMyGuest. The fund Read More

News / Distribution

Another piece in the jigsaw - Google eyes tours and activities

By Kevin May | December 6, 2013

Google is exploring how it might integrate attractions, tours and activities at a deeper level into search and other products, along similar lines to its push into hotels. Tnooz understands a numbe Read More

News

Startup pitch: WithLocals brings together local travel experiences with initial SE Asia focus

By Nick Vivion | December 4, 2013

The latest startup to drop into the tours and activities space is WithLocals, which promises to connect travelers to food, tours and activities in destinations around the world. The app is the brai Read More

News / Online

Tours and activities provider BeMyGuest raises $400,000 angel fund

By Karthick Prabu | October 21, 2013

More goings on in the tours and activities sector. Singapore-based tours and activities player BeMyGuest has raised $400,000 angel fund to boost its marketing effort, improve technology and acquire co Read More

News / Technology

TourRadar unveils mobile chat app for group tours

By Linda Fox | October 17, 2013

TourRadar, an online tours and activities provider, describes its "Meet Others" mobile application as Whats App for the group tours industry. The service enables users to sign in, via Facebook, Tou Read More

Most Popular
Latest Stories