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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. or to places.”

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8 investors, founders and execs predict cybersecurity, fintech will take Belfast by storm

TechCrunch

The city has undergone infrastructure improvements over the past two decades, tourism has boomed thanks to attractions such as the shipyard where the RMS Titanic was built and Game of Thrones shooting locations, and employment has risen steadily in the city since 2016, according to Northen Ireland’s Department for the Economy.

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8 investors and founders highlight Valencia’s potential as a fintech and cybersecurity hub

TechCrunch

While Madrid and Barcelona tend to attract the buzz when it comes to tech startups in Spain, Valencia is slowly and surely making a name for itself as a growing tech ecosystem. The city appears to be strong in areas such as travel, AI, cybersecurity, fintech, agritech, travel tech, biotech, sports tech, and VR.

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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. Experiential travel ecosystem: business models, distribution, technologies, and representatives. Technologies.

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Hot Tips To Create A Location-Based App

Xicom

The repercussions of COVID-19 affect geolocation-based industries like logistics and tourism. Businesses can register places in maps, and users can easily read reviews of places, provide feedback about the selected services, and link content to some specific places on the map. Technologies That Enable Geolocation Functionality.

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How Bounce beat pandemic disruption and bagged a16z to lead its Series A

TechCrunch

But by summer 2020 there was a temporary unlocking as parts of Europe reopened to tourism — so Bounce focused its efforts on markets like Croatia at that point. Co-founder and CEO Cody Candee admits business “completely froze” for the first three months of the pandemic. Travel is also exploding right now.”

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Employee Spotlight: Alanna Taber

Actian

Growing up in the hub of technology in Mountain View, CA, when so many technological advancements were being made with the Internet and Apple 1 computers, Alanna became interested in math and sciences early on. Outside of the classroom, Alanna had a passion for sports – specifically water sports.