BookingKit Gets Millions More for Experiences Software: Travel Startup Funding This Week
Photo Credit: A visitor to the Museum der Illusionen in Vienna, Austria, plays an optical trick on the camera thanks to a cleverly designed room. The museum uses BookingKit's central booking and administration system. BookingKit has just raised additional funding. Museum der Illusionen
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This week, we cover funding news from BookingKit (which makes software for tours-and-activities operators), Rotamundos (a budget hotel brand in Mexico), Izy (which provides contactless tech to hotels), Hotelbreak (which lets hotel sell services to non-guests), and Dorma (which rents vacation apartments to Italians).
Travel Startup Funding This Week
Each week we round up travel startups that have recently received or announced funding. Please email Travel Tech Reporter Justin Dawes at jd@skift.com if you have funding news.
This week, travel startups announced more than $7 million in funding.
>>BookingKit, which provides software to tours-and-activity operators, raised an undisclosed round of funding. The Deutsche Startups podcast said the investment was about $6 million (€5 million).
Past backers Intermedia Vermögensverwaltung, Müller Medien, and High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) participated, along with other investors.
Bookingkit, which helps "experiences" operators manage, sell, distribute, and market their services, is believed to have raised more than $15 million since its founding in 2014. The Berlin-based startup has focused on the German, Austrian, and Swiss markets, distributing thousands of listings for experiences, activities, and attractions in Europe to online aggregators and travel agencies like GetYourGuide and Ctrip.
>>Rotamundos, a social hotel chain based in Mexico, has raised $1.4 million in seed financing, with the possibility of
