This Week in Travel Startup Funding: Airbnb Feels the Heat in China and India
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If Airbnb and HomeAway hadn't noticed the mercury rising in India and China with home-stay and vacation rentals, they certainly do now. The overall U.S.-based sharing economy, including Uber, is having trouble breaking into those regions and it's not difficult to imagine why.
Each week we create a roundup of travel startups that have received or announced funding that week. The total amount raised this week was $445.8 million.
Here are six companies that announced they raised funding this week, listed in order by the highest amount raised. See previous roundups here.
>>>>Tuija raised a $300 million Series D round from new investors All-Stars Investment and The Ascott China and existing investors Ctrip bringing the Beijing, China-based startup's total funding to $455 million.
Tuija is essentially China's version of Airbnb and the new funding will help the company expand in
