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

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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. social media posts and web pages).

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How Social Media Changed Tourism Marketing

Strategy Driven

Social media has changed the way people communicate and exchange information. For others, the rise in social media has improved not only exposure but also the way companies market and do business. Social media has become the most effective form of marketing since it allows exposure to your business organically.

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Daily Crunch: Binance admits hackers used cross-chain bridge to steal at least $100M

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Evolving elephants to unicorns : Annie reports that Kenya’s tourism-focused startup studio Purple Elephant Ventures raises $1 million pre-seed funding to bring some modernization to the industry. Entrepreneurs, in response, have started to develop tech meant to minimize the scale and damage of these natural disasters. Carly has more.

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Brazil’s Black Silicon Valley could be an epicenter of innovation in Latin America

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Tara Sabre Collier is an early-stage impact investor with more than 15 years of experience at the intersection of economic development, social entrepreneurship and impact investment. Another company supported in the beginning with mentoring by Vale do DendĂŞ is Diaspora Black (which focuses on Black culture in the tourism sectors).

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Health tech startup mPharma acquires Vine Pharmacy, enters Uganda

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s development finance institution, last year. Other existing investors include Silicon Valley backer Jim Breyer of Breyer Capital, Shravin Bharti Mittal of the Bharti Global Limited, Social Capital and Golden Palm Investments. and Daniel Vasella, ex-CEO and chairman of Novartis; both are members of the board.

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mPharma, a telehealth pioneer out of Ghana, gets physical with 100 virtual centers across Africa

TechCrunch

Founded in 2013 by Rockson , Daniel Shoukimas and James Finucane , mPharma is one of the well-funded startups across Africa raising over $50 million since inception, this includes a Series C round of $17 million, led by UK’s development arm CDC Group, it received last year. doctors in some of the most developed countries.

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Experiential Travel Explained: Players, Distribution Landscape, and Opportunities

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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. What is experiential travel? 2022 ADVENTURE TRAVEL INDUSTRY SNAPSHOT by ATTA. Experiential travel distribution.

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