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Articles tagged “tours and activities”

Online Travel

RocketRez and Questo Gain Traction in Tours and Activities: Travel Startup Funding This Week

It was a positive week for the tours and activities sector as startups GetYourGuide, RocketRez, and Questo received financial infusions for digital offerings. Plus, other funding news.

Sean O'Neill, Skift | 3 years ago

RocketRez and Questo Gain Traction in Tours and Activities: Travel Startup Funding This Week

Online Travel

GetYourGuide’s Latest Financial Moves Hint at Future Acquisitions

Reading in between the lines, it seems like the Berlin-based online travel agency is hoping to make an acquisition or minority investment, most likely one that would expand its product portfolio such as for its white-labeled "originals" experiences.

Sean O'Neill, Skift | 3 years ago

GetYourGuide’s Latest Financial Moves Hint at Future Acquisitions

Online Travel

Amazon Gets Aggressive With Promotional Pricing for Virtual Tours

Amazon bowed out of the hotel business a couple of times, is dabbling with flight bookings in India, and seems to have found a sweet spot in cheap, virtual experiences. With all of those tour operator partners now in the fold, post-pandemic, in-person tours and activities is likely on the to-do list.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 3 years ago

Amazon Gets Aggressive With Promotional Pricing for Virtual Tours

Business Travel

TUI Musement Emerges as a Tours and Activities Player in Europe in Shadow of GetYourGuide

Will it suffice for TUI Musement to focus on the partnership side of its business, as it does with Booking.com and major cruise lines, or does it need to master the uphill task of becoming a breakout consumer brand beyond TUI's existing customer base? Acquisitions could be part of the mix when the pandemic dust settles.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 3 years ago

TUI Musement Emerges as a Tours and Activities Player in Europe in Shadow of GetYourGuide

Hotels

Airbnb CEO Dodges Question Over Whether Company Is Overvalued at $113 Billion

Airbnb is smart to focus on its core accommodations' business, if that is indeed what it is really doing. The company has time to deal with all of the other stuff, from flights to hotels and experiences, once a real-life travel recovery has a pulse.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 3 years ago

Airbnb CEO Dodges Question Over Whether Company Is Overvalued at $113 Billion

Online Travel

Airbnb Experiences Is Still a Conundrum With Strategy Lapses

Sell Disneyland tickets or retain its curated Experiences offerings? Things are already beginning to change, but that's a dilemma for Airbnb as it tries to build a profitable tours and activities business in a rough-and-tumble and highly competitive market.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 3 years ago

Airbnb Experiences Is Still a Conundrum With Strategy Lapses

Online Travel

Klook Raises $200 Million in Bid to Become a Superapp for Experiences

Klook is winning investor confidence during the pandemic. The online agency is tapping into domestic leisure spending in several Asian markets while aspiring to copy some moves from Chinese superapp Meituan by providing more business-to-business services, too.

Sean O'Neill, Skift | 3 years ago

Klook Raises $200 Million in Bid to Become a Superapp for Experiences

Online Travel

Expedia’s Shuttering of Another Brand Points to a Clash of Online Travel Strategies

Stay deep or go wide? Online travel companies from Expedia to Airbnb and Booking.com are grappling with these issues. Focusing on core products can clearly be a winning formula, but when you are a public company, pressure to generate growth from new areas is a constant conundrum.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 3 years ago

Expedia’s Shuttering of Another Brand Points to a Clash of Online Travel Strategies
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Executive Q&A: Why the Future of Smart Travel Distribution Must Include Tours and Activities

The tours and activities space has only recently started to show signs of cohesion and standardization in its technology. Despite past challenges, the sector is a promising one when it comes to travel distribution, if content and bookings are managed in the right way.

Livn + Skift | 3 years ago

Executive Q&A: Why the Future of Smart Travel Distribution Must Include Tours and Activities

Online Travel

CEO of GetYourGuide Concedes It Had Its Own Google-Like Bias Issue

When GetYourGuide criticized Google for promoting an uneven competitive playing field, some GetYourGuide partners accused GetYourGuide of similar transgressions in the way it markets its Originals tours. GetYourGuide vowed to make amends, the results of which will only become clear in a few months.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 4 years ago