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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. social media posts and web pages).

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Sharify makes it super simple to rediscover your city’s social side

TechCrunch

The pandemic has upended many aspects of urban life but perhaps the most visible upheaval is to citydwellers’ social lives, with curfews calling time on traditional night life across much of the Western world and social distancing putting a chilly spin on opportunities for getting together with people outside your usual circle.

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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. Despite being generally optimistic about the future, the Gulf states are also profoundly socially conservative.

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

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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., Group travelers. Luxury travelers.

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How Can the Travel Industry Overcome the Impact of COVID?

Strategy Driven

One of the hardest hit industries during the coronavirus pandemic has been travel and tourism. Organisations now face an ever growing challenge of convincing people that it’s socially responsible to travel and enjoy a holiday once again, and that where they are visiting has put all the necessary precautions and procedures in place.

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Hot Tips To Create A Location-Based App

Xicom

Besides, these apps have also influenced social networking and dating, as they let users find new places in your area and take advantage of convenient service seamlessly. The repercussions of COVID-19 affect geolocation-based industries like logistics and tourism. Social Function. Social Apps. That’s not all!

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