Articles tagged “startups”

As competitors close in and some do heavy TV advertising, HotelTonight states that it is doing "hundreds of millions of dollars" annually in gross bookings and that it has grown 100 percent per year over the last two years. This will continue to be an interesting skirmish between a well-funded startup focusing on last-minute versus larger players that can offer more wide-ranging solutions for hotels.

For many travelers trip-planning means planning to relax, lie by a beach or pool and not do anything for a week. For others it means adrenaline-pumping adventure requiring firm planning and these startups want to help with both mindsets.

Bikes are a cleaner, affordable and fun way to explore a city and the travelers' wildfire nature of understanding this continues expanding every day.

Travelers don't want to wait for the airports' promises of a better tomorrow and these startups hear their demands loud and clear.

Getting travelers to explore a destination beyond the festival grounds is where the opportunity lies for these startups to form some partnerships and make inroads.

These startups realize anything that can go wrong while traveling, will go wrong.

These five startups attempt to bring travelers closer to authentic, local experiences that help define the destination.

Bringing travelers together with themselves, outside of the local craze that's enveloping travel , theoretically sounds like it would be popular. The focus must be eliminating the "random stranger" feel to create digital familiarity before travelers meet in person.

Just because the ability to connect with a local in a new city exists, doesn't mean that the local necessarily wants to meet. This theory can be applied to many of the emerging travel tools today.

Tools that quantify our travel trends is a sector that we'd like to see further developed.