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Peek boasts that it provides a great booking experience on both desktop and mobile devices, which at this stage in the game is a must if tours and activities platforms hope to keep pace with consumer demands and behavior.

Cloudbed's recent venture round is in line with other small investments made in hotel software so far this year as investors are more cautious and focus on smaller funding amounts.

Travelers don't even need to download an app anymore to book a hotel or flight thanks to travel bots on the world's top messaging platforms. We still have a lot to learn about how consumers want to engage with travel messaging bots but already know that convenience is their paramount feature.

It's theoretically a great time to be investing in and creating hospitality tech startups with more hotels wanting to drive direct bookings and online travel agencies interested in getting their piece of the pie. But several factors, such as uncertainty with stock markets around the world, are making investors more cautious about if, and how much, they invest in these companies.

Several hotel companies are looking at digitizing the concierge experience so human concierge staff have more time to devote to complicated guest requests. It's still early to tell how this will pan out in the vacation rental market, which Key Concierge's is targeting.

The hospitality sector has been one of the warmest for startup funding so far this year and this past week was no exception to that trend.

Besides the notion that there are few companies that wouldn't want their employees to save them money, technology that makes business travel more efficient is in high demand from brands that get it.

As one of the last uncultivated frontiers for online travel we'll likely keep seeing large sums of funding heading towards vacation rental startups the world over.

We're desperate for any solution that makes booking corporate travel less painful. It appears TravelPerk's investors realize the value in a company that wants to give travel managers technology that makes them smarter, and that's a long time coming.

Both Seatfrog and Bookingkit seek to empower more consumers, whether it's giving them a smarter booking experience for tours and activities or the chance to get flight upgrades without any hassles.