Articles tagged “startups”

Hipcamp thinks that courting landowners like farmers, ranchers, and vintners can help unlock new supply for outdoor recreation. It's an interesting theory.

This week, investors bet more than $136 million in travel-themed startups, including a robot builder, a video-sharing app, and two companies that make multiple types of transport searchable and bookable.

This investor backing will help Omio speed up its quest to become a global booking brand for so-called multi-modal-trip booking.

Countries lack a playbook in coping with the pandemic's effect on tourism, but Scotland is one to watch when it comes to its new effort to boost its travel tech sector.

Investors have recently bet on a few long-term trends: outdoor recreation, smoother business travel, better digital identity management by the travel sector, and next-gen tour operators.

Splitty's acquisition of Cancelon's assets is notable because it highlights a seemingly clever way to advertise on travel price-comparison sites. Think of it as "metasearch arbitrage."

This week, startups relevant to the travel sector announced more than $24 million in funding. Their very startup-y sounding names are Airside, Breezeway, and Delightree.

Jakarta-based agency Traveloka, South Korea-based agency MyRealTrip, and Colombia-based agency Awake Travel are among the travel startups that together announced more than $297 million in funding this week.

Two startups that raised funding this week: Gett, a kind of metasearch for ground transit, and Triparound, which helps hotels and other partners upsell more services to travelers.

Two startups that stand out in this funding roundup are Beekeeper, an operational communications service for staff at hotels and other companies, and Mystifly, an aviation retailing and payments platform.