RocketRez and Questo Gain Traction in Tours and Activities: Travel Startup Funding This Week
Photo Credit: An example of an all-terrain-vehicle experience in the desert that has been available for booking via GetYourGuide, a tours and activities booking brand that received a loan this week. GetYourGuide
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It was a positive week for the tours and activities sector as startups GetYourGuide, RocketRez, and Questo received financial infusions for digital offerings. Plus, other funding news.
Travel Startup Funding This Week
Each week we round up travel startups that have recently received or announced funding. Please email Travel Tech Reporter Justin Dawes at [email protected] if you have funding news.
This week, travel startups announced more than $85 million in funding and financing.
>>GetYourGuide, a Berlin-based agency, said Monday it had received a loan of $97 million (€80 million) from a consortium of banks, led by Unicredit.
>>RocketRez a Canadian provider of management software for tours and attractions, raised $5 million ($6.3 Canadian) in Series A funding.
Blueprint Equity led the round.
The Winnipeg-based startup also received about $1.5 million ($2 million Canadian) in revenue-based financing from TIMIA Capital.
RocketRez said it had more than doubled its "recurring revenue growth," year-over-year, despite the pandemic.
Founded in 2012, the startup has integrated online, in-person, and call center booking engines into one sale inventory management system. It has also
