Travel Planning

News / Technology

How established travel companies are breaking new ground

By Bernadette Giacomazzo | November 9, 2017

Established companies put forth new innovations – but who at The Phocuswright Conference's Launch series had the best of the best? Read More

News / Startups

VIDEO: How startups can make a mark (but rarely do)

By Kevin May | November 8, 2017

It's a tough world out there for travel startups - with failure rates far higher than the number of success stories. Read More

News / Technology

Sygic takes majority share of Tripomatic, rebrands its travel app

By Sean O'Neil | April 27, 2016

Sygic, a maker of mobile navigation apps, took a 51% equity stake in Tripomatic, a Czech Republic-based startup that helps travelers create and book custom itineraries for an undisclosed sum. Sygic Read More

News / Distribution

Part Two of Two: How a trip planning startup can succeed

By Viewpoints | February 9, 2016

"Customer acquisition costs" is the phrase trip planning naysayers like to use when explaining why they think the sector is a startup graveyard. NB: This is the second instalment of a two-part view Read More

News / Technology

Hipmunk expands feature set to include trip planning tools

By Nick Vivion | June 30, 2015

Hipmunk has long been a bastion of simplicity — one interface that grids out the various flight options for a specific flight search. Now, the brand is looking for new ways to invigorate its approa Read More

News / Technology

Lonely Planet links up latest guidebook with companion app in multimedia play

By Nick Vivion | April 30, 2015

There hasn't been much news out of Lonely Planet since being acquired in 2013. Recently, however, the brand has begun to once again come alive. After switching strategies to make Skyscanner its def Read More

News

Travefy, a group travel planner and TMC tool, lands $1.8M in funding

April 27, 2015

Travefy, a website that helps groups plan trips, has raised $1.8 million in equity investment in its Series A round of funding. The money is in addition to the startup's $320,000 seed round in autu Read More

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Startup pitch: ComboTrip takes on challenge of group planning

By Nick Vivion | April 16, 2015

Today's startup pitch comes to us from ComboTrip, a travel startup targeting the challenging sector that is group travel. While the startup points to the nearly $80 billion group travel market, there Read More

News

Startup pitch: Wanderant offers trip tool for prolific planners

By Nick Vivion | December 1, 2014

Today's travel startup pitch comes from Wanderant, a travel planning startup that promises to help plan/book/go on trips. The team calls the product a "workflow tool for uber-planners," specificall Read More

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Startup pitch: Trekeffect loops travel planning threads together

By Nick Vivion | September 2, 2014

Trekeffect is a new travel startup tackling a classic area of travel startup-ery: travel planning. The idea is to deliver a more cohesive planning experience that can be shared with friends and gro Read More

News / Technology

Startup pitch: Trekkel strives for travel planning simplicity

By Nick Vivion | March 12, 2014

Trekkel is a new travel startup iterating on the travel planning process through curation, personalization and intelligent day planning. This combination moves away from inspiration and into action Read More

News / Technology

Gogobot goes niche, offering users contextual search aligned to specific interests

By Nick Vivion | November 7, 2013

Social travel planning service Gogobot rolled out a new feature today which provides contextual search for users. Dubbed "Gogobot Tribes," travelers can now select one or more travel styles that fi Read More

News

Farewell Dopplr, hello Radar

By Linda Fox | October 22, 2013

Startups are often known for being nimble but just as Nokia announced plans to finally shutter Dopplr next month, one rapid startup saw an opportunity to fill the gap. Step forward Radar, which eve Read More

News / Online

Roadtrippers closes $2.5 million round from new VC firm headed by Sequoia alums

By Nick Vivion | August 12, 2013

Ground transport planning service Roadtrippers has raised a $2.5 million series A round from new VC firm Drive Capital, which is backed by Sequoia alums Mark Kvamme and Chris Olsen. Read More