Five travel startups take adventurers from dreaming to scheming
Travel is equal parts planning and dreaming, and this week's SkiftSeedlings tackles both ends of the equation.
Imagining a journey or dreaming of a destination is the easy part, of course, followed by the logistics of flight searches, hotel bookings, and trip insurance. Providing the tools that turn dreaming into a reality in as seamless a process as possible is the goal of these new design-driven products.
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