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Online Travel
If you are thinking of launching a travel startup, please read this before you waste years of your life, and become old, gray and bitter.
Dennis Schaal, Skift | 9 years ago
Established trip-planning sites, whether they deal in individual travelers or groups, are not fearful of this acquisition.
Dennis Schaal, Skift | 10 years ago
Tourism
Although most travelers research more than a dozen sites when planning a trip, information and direction shared by official tourism boards are key to building awareness of a destinations' offerings and opportunities.
Samantha Shankman, Skift | 10 years ago
Trippy is banking on the premise that its new question and answer platform for travel will be a cut above the rest in terms of quality, and that it will distinguish itself in the way it maps attractions and concisely summarises their basics for travel planning. That begs the question: Will it be enough?
The key learnings are in the socio-demographic breakdowns: the young are using and seeking out travel information in many different ways than previous generations have, and the shares of various channels are likely continue to change in the next few years.
Rafat Ali, Skift | 10 years ago
The type of startups on this big list are the consumer travel ones that mostly fail, and very few among these get funded as the data above shows. California and New York are, not surprisingly, the main places where they are first started, though L.A., Boston, Seattle, and Colorado are also good hubs for travel startups.
TV and travel technology companies have long looked to the day when people would be booking travel from their TV remote controls, and now the advent of Web-based smart TVs could accelerate innovation. Still, the marriage of TV, on the one hand, and trip planning and booking, on the other, has yet to be consummated. ProSiebenSat.1 and Lonely Planet are among companies giving it a try.
Media and PR
Pinterest is the Pinterest of travel, and it is going to leverage that to move into the sector formally. It may just become the first such company to complete the digital cycle from inspiration to booking.
Jason Clampet, Skift | 10 years ago
