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Zartico secures $20M to help tourism offices promote local destinations

TechCrunch

Despite representing 10% of the world’s GDP, the tourism industry has been one of the last to embrace big data and analytics. Using it, customers can see where visitors to a location migrate and move at the street level and track the tourism effects on locally owned businesses. Image Credits: Zartico.

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Journey Beyond transforms its contact center to deliver better customer journeys

CIO

Journey Beyond, a part of Hornblower Group, is Australia’s leading experiential tourism group. The absence of advanced contact center features and analytics further prevented us from driving exceptional customer experience. Headquartered in Adelaide, it operates 13 brands and experiences spanning the country.

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5 hot IT budget investments — and 2 going cold

CIO

This includes spending on strengthening cybersecurity (35%), improving customer service (32%) and improving data analytics for real-time business intelligence and customer insight (30%). Australian experiential tourism company Journey Beyond recently revamped its contact center as part of a customer experience transformation.

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The truth about SDK integrations and their impact on developers

TechCrunch

in-app advertising and DOOH platform that serves leading organizations across retail, food and beverage, restaurant, tourism, government, and healthcare. Through a digital marketing lens, SDKs provide in-app analytics, insights on campaign testing, attribution information, location details, monetization capabilities and more.

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Peek raises $80M as its travel experiences software and marketplace business passes $2B in bookings

TechCrunch

Travel and tourism are slowly starting to move again in the wake of COVID-19 crashing over the world and sending us to shelter in place. Today a company focused on experiences — museum visits, skydiving, local cooking classes and more — is announcing a round of growth funding on the back of seeing its own business bounce back.

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Travel Startups and Tourism Trends to Invest In

Altexsoft

In this article, we’ll mention the budding tourism trends and give six examples of startups that capitalize on the changes in the industry. In March 2022, the statistics portal for market data Statista revealed a survey on travelers opinion on accomodations use of latest tech 2020. Yet, now it shows the annual growth rate of 20.9

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AltexSoft Participated in Arabian Travel Market 2022 Exhibition

Altexsoft

Dubai, UAE — May 31, 2022 — AltexSoft, one of 1,500 exhibitors from 158 countries, participated in the 2022 Arabian Travel Market. Some of the major discussion points included seizing the opportunities after the travel rebound, opening new travel markets and destinations, as well as developing new finance strategies.

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