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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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Bandwango raises $3.1M to power tourism- and experience-focused deals

TechCrunch

You might think that a startup whose primary customers are tourism bureaus would have had a pretty rough 2020, but CEO Monir Parikh said Bandwango ‘s customer base more than doubled in the past year, growing from 75 to 200. The startup had previously raised only $700,000 in funding.).

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Purple Elephant Ventures, Kenya’s tourism-focused startup studio, raises $1M pre-seed funding

TechCrunch

A Kenya-based venture studio with a focus on tourism, Purple Elephant Ventures (PEV), has raised $1 million pre-seed funding to build the next generation of startups that use technology to modernize the tourism sector. I think what’s exciting for the team is all of the possibilities to digitize tourism for a greener future.

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Sumutasu secures $10M to digitize Japan’s real estate market

TechCrunch

In Japan, where the real estate market is fragmented, homeowners have faced uncertain selling prices riddled with brokerage fees and an average selling period of between four and eight months, Ito said. per the 2020 report of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT). and the U.K., and the U.K., While the U.S.

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Easol raises $25M for its experiences and event marketing, booking and payments platform

TechCrunch

The gradual return of tourism and travel in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic continues to see a wave of startups raising rounds of funding to meet new opportunities in the market. “We see that as a major opportunity, giving creators the chance to get inventory from elsewhere and push theirs out to other places.”

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Travel Startups and Tourism Trends to Invest In

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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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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. This has also given Journey Beyond the opportunity to recruit for talent in other locations outside the market around its Adelaide office. Headquartered in Adelaide, it operates 13 brands and experiences spanning the country.

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