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Travel app S?kr scores $2.25 million to bring campsite inventory into the digital age

TechCrunch

“Just like in the ’90s, if you wanted to book a hotel or travel somewhere, you’d have to call hotels individually. After meeting through social media, where they had become micro-influencers in the van life space, the co-founders decided to build a mobile app for people in the same position. Image Credits: S?kr

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Metasearch in Hospitality: an Overview of Hotel Search Engines

Altexsoft

In April 2020, the hotel occupancy in the US dropped to its lowest level ever — the bewildering 24.5 The annual average was roughly 44 percent, which means that more than half of hotel rooms were empty during the whole year. This means a hotel is charged every time the ad is clicked and redirection occurs.

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Rakuten and Beyond Next invest $1.4M seed funding in farm-to-table startup Secai Marche

TechCrunch

million USD) in pre-Series A funding from Rakuten Ventures and Beyond Next Ventures to build a B2B logistics platform for farmers that sell to restaurants, hotels and other F&B (food and beverage) businesses. This week, it announced 150 million JPY (about $1.4 This round brings Secai Marche’s total raised to about $3 million.

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How to organize and execute an effective sales kickoff in 2022

TechCrunch

These experiential events included opportunities for: Networking. While socializing won’t quite be the same and skipping 2022’s SKO isn’t always an option, companies can still deliver a high-impact virtual or hybrid SKO that engages, entertains and motivates their sales teams. Before the pandemic, companies hosted SKOs in person.

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Instead of restricting AI and algorithms, make them explainable

Martin Fowler

In one example, its about “algorithmic” feeds in social media that promote posts that drive engagement. Faced with these concerns, there is often a movement to restrict the use of algorithms, such as a recent activity in New York to restrict how social media networks generate feeds for children.

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Network after Work

Career Advancement

Networking is an essential part of building wealth.”. Sure, he was missing out on the chance to socialize, but it wasn’t really his scene. Then his sister shared some interesting statistics about the effectiveness of networking after work. Problem: Drinking is an effective inter-office, after-work networking vehicle.

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Egypt’s Suplyd raises $1.6M to digitize restaurants supply chain

TechCrunch

Suplyd , a procurement platform for hotels, restaurants and catering (HoReCa) businesses in Egypt, has raised $1.6 Tarek Fahim, general partner at Endure Capital said: “Eating out is a major part of social life in the Middle East, but the supply chain that enables restaurants to serve customers is highly fragmented.

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