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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. or to places.”

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Live-streaming platform BoxCast raises $20M

TechCrunch

And it’s no surprise that 2020 has been a “watershed moment” for the company, as Daily put it, with the company now live streaming millions of events per year — everything from sports to religious services to virtual safaris offered by Sri Lanka’s tourism board. BoxCast dashboard.

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Experiential Travel Explained: Players, Distribution Landscape, and Opportunities

Altexsoft

Obviously, the travel industry has to keep up with customer demand, so today we explore what experiential tourism is about and how travel businesses can capitalize on this strive for exclusivity and adventure. TrekkSoft ) that can assist with scheduling, multi-channel distribution, partner relationships, analytics, and so on.

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8 investors, founders and execs predict cybersecurity, fintech will take Belfast by storm

TechCrunch

The city has undergone infrastructure improvements over the past two decades, tourism has boomed thanks to attractions such as the shipyard where the RMS Titanic was built and Game of Thrones shooting locations, and employment has risen steadily in the city since 2016, according to Northen Ireland’s Department for the Economy.

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8 investors and founders highlight Valencia’s potential as a fintech and cybersecurity hub

TechCrunch

The city appears to be strong in areas such as travel, AI, cybersecurity, fintech, agritech, travel tech, biotech, sports tech, and VR. Notable startups in the city include Streamloots, Voicemod, Jeff, Beroomers, Flywire and Blinkfire Analytics. The blockchain/crytpo scene could do with some improvement, according to a few respondents.

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Employee Spotlight: Alanna Taber

Actian

Outside of the classroom, Alanna had a passion for sports – specifically water sports. Ultimately, she decided to relocate back to California and finish out her college education at Cal State Northridge, in Recreation and Tourism Management.

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Occupancy Rate Prediction: Building an ML Module to Analyze One of the Main Hospitality KPIs

Altexsoft

Instead, you can opt for predictive analytics to identify patterns that are likely to develop again in the future and estimate a probable demand for hotel or vacation rental properties. economic changes, events (sports competitions, concerts, conferences), exchange rates, political situations, and. Internal factors include.

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