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

TechCrunch

But Backdrop is not unlike other global social media platforms that allow users to take ephemeral photos, flex their lifestyle on disappearing stories or discover millions of personalized short videos. Social media and travel. Social media platforms are known to be hyper-focused on user growth before making revenue or profits.

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Sustainable Travel: Opportunities Digital Technology Provides for a Greener Business

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Greenhouse gases (tourism is responsible for around 8 percent of global carbon emissions, three-quarters of which is due to aviation), local resource overuse (e.g., What is sustainable travel? Sustainable or eco-travel is a way of managing travel activities so that the natural environment is preserved and supported.

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

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Other existing investors include Silicon Valley backer Jim Breyer of Breyer Capital, Shravin Bharti Mittal of Bharti Global Limited-an Indian Conglomerate, Social Capital and Golden Palm Investments. mPharma also enjoys expertise backing from well experienced professions in the pharmaceutical industry.

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Announcing the startups and judges onstage at TC Sessions: Mobility 2022

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. “Swyft is a new form of urban mobility, using autonomous cabins on lightweight cable infrastructure to solve transportation problems in densely developed areas including corporate campuses, airports, universities and tourism districts. This adds capacity into an area, allowing higher density and more profitable developments.

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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Generate Capital Goes Big Again, Kore.ai Nabs $150M

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billion raised by sustainability and infrastructure investment firm Generate Capital. Watershed , $100M, climate: San Francisco-based Watershed, an enterprise sustainability platform, locked up a $100 million Series C at a $1.8 This is a weekly feature that runs down the week’s top 10 announced funding rounds in the U.S.

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When Scaling Your Leadership is a Matter of Life or Death

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When the pandemic shut Los Angeles County down, the Food Bank and its distribution partners were overwhelmed with a whole new set of middle-class workers who had lost their jobs in hospitality, retail, tourism and entertainment. When demand tripled almost overnight, that old model wasn’t sustainable.