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Do you need another app to discover beautiful places when you travel?

TechCrunch

In the summer of 2019, Timilehin Ajiboye became intrigued with the idea of building a travel app after conversations with a circle of friends. And while social media, growing exponentially over the past decade, has changed the way we communicate and connect, it has also changed how we travel. Social media and travel.

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Brex takes a swipe at Concur with an expansion into travel

TechCrunch

In yet another example of how competitive the spend management space has become, Brex announced today that it has expanded into travel. In an interview with TechCrunch, co-CEO and co-founder Henrique Dubugras said that users of Brex Empower will now be able to book travel inside the Brex mobile app.

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For those who want to turn travel into dollars, Fora can help start your next career

TechCrunch

Travel is back, at least according to experts who say travel bookings for over the Thanksgiving holiday are showing to be even higher than pre-pandemic levels. Anyone who loves travel or is that friend who always plans the best vacations, Fora has a tool for you. Travel agencies are a $100 billion market in the U.S. ,

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Unicorn travel startup Hopper is facing a pandemic-fueled customer service nightmare

TechCrunch

Mobile travel app Hopper has been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic as consumers canceled their trips and airlines dropped their flights. Currently, hundreds of Hopper customers are trashing the app in their app store reviews, calling Hopper a scam, threatening legal action and warning others to stay away. covid ##travel ?

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Travel app S?kr scores $2.25 million to bring campsite inventory into the digital age

TechCrunch

And the reservation itself is still often recorded using old-school systems, like pen and paper. The two had been traveling independently with their partners in their camper vans, having embraced the so-called “ van life ” lifestyle. “Even if you have your partner, [traveling] gets very lonely,” notes Acio.

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Berlin’s Kaiko Systems nets €2M to help maritime technical operations go paperless

TechCrunch

Maritime shipping, argued Fabian Fussek, CEO and co-founder of Kaiko Systems, is the “last frontier of digitzation.” ” Kaiko Systems is a Berlin-based startup trying to digitize operations on commercial vessels. But some sectors have been left behind.

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Email Marketing Software in the Travel Industry: Benefits, Challenges, and Success Stories

Altexsoft

This is a guest article by Carla Andre-Brown, content marketer from Mailbird. Last year, the clear path the travel industry once had was swept away. This was largely due to the COVID-19 pandemic uprooting the status quo for both international and domestic travel. The Challenges of Marketing to Travelers.

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