TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
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).
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 7, 2022
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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TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 9, 2021
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.
Strategy Driven
MAY 15, 2020
Social media has changed the way people communicate and exchange information. For others, the rise in social media has improved not only exposure but also the way companies market and do business. Social media has become the most effective form of marketing since it allows exposure to your business organically.
TechCrunch
APRIL 28, 2021
. “As a result, most of the use cases where UM is seeing growth — in tourism, retail, real estate — are in industries struggling due to the pandemic, where they’re using data to figure out, ‘How do we come out of the pandemic?'”
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 14, 2022
Bumpa is a social commerce platform for over 100,000 small businesses (Lara is a founding executive); it recently integrated with Meta to sync between apps and is currently closing a seed round. Purple Elephant Ventures, Kenya’s tourism-focused startup studio, raises $1M pre-seed funding.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 28, 2021
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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