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4 New Travel Startups Helping Hotels Engage With Guests

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Sean O'Neill

Photo Credit: Numerous travel startups help hotels engage with their guests. Pictured, guests and staff seems excited about the opening of the swimming pool at The Donovan, a Kimpton Hotel, in Washington, D.C. in May 2015.  Kimpton Hotels

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Tink Labs is a standout Hong Kong company in the hotel ecosystem. It attracted $170 million in funding to make its Handy loaner smartphones a free amenity in hotels worldwide. But we found some other companies that are also offering promising tools for hoteliers.

While TripAdvisor organizes information "about" a hotel, other companies can organize information "around" a hotel to provide more services that guests specifically want. During the last year, several startups — Tink Labs (via its Handy brand), As You Stay, iReckon U, and Wyndow, among them — have begun to showcase their wares to hotels worldwide for this purpose. >>Handy is a company that gives hotel guests customized smartphones as a free amenity. The phones are customized to enable guests to interact with the hotel and also discover things to do near the property. Handy phones are created by Tink Labs, which has raised more than $170 million, making it one of the best-funded startups in Hong Kong. The phones a

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