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Hotels
Rather than prevailing on time-constrained hosts to double as local tour guides, Airbnb could find plenty of partners in the hood.
Skift | 12 years ago
Media and PR
We’re interested to see which startups are born from RunUp Labs and where they’ll find their place in the currently crowded market of travel sites and apps.
Samantha Shankman, Skift | 12 years ago
Online Travel
It's hard to see how LiveTrekker would gain a wide audience when sharing photos and videos is already accomplished without this app.
Dennis Schaal , Skift | 12 years ago
Local travel+events focused on different niches is a growth opportunity, and Red Tricycle has done a great job growing it organically for a long time, and then raising money now.
Several startups are leveraging tech to connect strangers with a common goal in another case in which technology (like Google Street View) is replacing the need to actually board a plane.
Spindle is tapping into the power of social content shared directly by businesses to create a city guide that has the potential to become a customized suggestion stream by integrating users' online interests.
Airlines
iFly Airport Guide may have one of the largest selection of airports, but this thoroughness has come at the price of good design and a smart user experience.
Gutting 10% of the workforce isn't much of a holiday package from LivingSocial. But it does highlight that the winnowing continues in the daily deals sector.
Dennis Schaal, Skift | 12 years ago
The sad fact of most social travel sites is that despite cool design and nice apps, there are plenty of social sites -- Facebook, Pinterest, and, yes, TripAdvisor -- that already did what they're trying to do.
It’s not a new platform that’s needed to take these tourism companies online, but a grassroots efforts to update their technology to process online payments.
