Articles tagged “funding”

Activity-planning startups are a dime a dozen but Musement seems to be getting investors' attention.

The global distribution world has long offered vacation rentals to travel agents but the investments by Amadeus Ventures and former Sabre CFO Jeff Jackson in BookingPal symbolize new and more serious interest.

Smart travel startups realize that the real money to be made is on the back-end and they’re creating solutions that in-house teams haven’t yet thought out.

Fostering a personal relationship with guests, which is critical for hotels looking to build loyalty and drive direct bookings, has never been easier through multiple online channels. However, tools that streamline, automate and consolidate some of that information and interactions is necessary to sustainable success.

The tours and activity sector has been one of the last within the travel industry to innovate; however, small changes are being made which could lead to necessary shifts in the next one to three years.

We've yet to see a content-sharing travel app catch on with consumers, no matter how much money has been poured into it.

Beyond the trust issue, Roomer's challenge is to publicize the service, scale it and to provide meaningful discounts off published rates in myriad markets on an everyday basis.

With just $40 million in the bank, don't expect Getaround to make good on its pledge to launch in "all major U.S. cities in the next year," but this latest funding round, in tandem with other fundings in this space, shows that ground transportation and ridesharing is the hottest thing going at the moment.

This is filled with so many people from the same team that it appears there's a very specific problem Marriott has that it wasn't able to solve in-house.

Trip sharing startups usually have a difficult time attracting and retaining users as well as turning user-generated content into a viable product.