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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. social media posts and web pages).

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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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Headless is out of this world, let’s dive in!

Perficient

I previously wrote about Sitecore Content Hub ONE and its place in the market as a new pure play headless CMS. image: curated virtual journey into Boston Children’s Hospital ) Tourism A pandemic hits the entire world. Tourism and cultural events grind to a halt. Travel is shut down.

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Arabian moonshots may hold huge implications for the whole world

Pandora's Brain

They are looking to AI to help them develop alternative energy sources, create smart cities, improve government services, and build world-class industries in fintech, healthcare, and tourism. Inbound tourism used to be virtually impossible; now it takes just a few seconds to obtain a tourist visa online.

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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. on marketing or technology), as well as payment processing services and analytics tools. What is experiential travel?

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Closed User Groups in Travel: Benefits, Examples, and Best Practices to Enable a CUG Strategy

Altexsoft

This type of closed user group is organized for a specific group of people, such as a school class, sports team, or religious group, traveling together. retirees, families with young children, members of a sports club, to name a few); and meeting certain loyalty or engagement criteria (e.g., Marketing efficiency.

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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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