Articles tagged “funding”

Travel startups recently raised more than $184 million in funding. Concepts included intercity bus service, prediction software, corporate travel planning, software for direct hotel bookings, and sites for booking via social media.

The call of the outdoors was loud last summer. Travel startups Outdoorsy and Collective Retreats are hoping that millennials keep answering the call post-pandemic.

As the recovery takes hold in many countries, investors are clocking startups like raptors track mice. Travel startups announced $657 million in funding this week.

The RVezy funding is yet another sign that the outdoor sector is booming. Other startups to announce funding this week include a Saudi version of Airbnb and an American version of BlaBlaCar.

Startups announced funding rounds this week for businesses to make it easier to rent a car, to help hotels manage sales and catering for events, to help consumers plan in-destination meetings, to help travel companies create and sell wellness-themed packages, and other ideas.

Vietnamese startups are attracting increasing attention from foreign funds, as the funding of hotel booking app Go2Joy shows.

There's only one question you need to ask of a startup to determine its fate. Did it have a good pandemic? Holidu and its tech services brand Bookiply certainly did, thanks to their focus on the vacation rental sector.

This week, travel startups announced more than $24 million in funding. These companies help automate travel visa applications, offer installment loans for vacations, streamline corporate travel expenses, run glamping stays in Catalonia, help visitors book trip experiences in Qatar, and more.

To quote venture capitalist Alexia Bonatsos, "Travel startups are about to have a moment."

This week, travel startups, including TravelPerk, Guesty, Staymyway, and TripAbrood, announced more than $212 million in funding. Can we popularize the phrase "world boom ahead"?