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Zartico secures $20M to help tourism offices promote local destinations

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Despite representing 10% of the world’s GDP, the tourism industry has been one of the last to embrace big data and analytics. Using it, customers can see where visitors to a location migrate and move at the street level and track the tourism effects on locally owned businesses. Image Credits: Zartico. social media posts and web pages).

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Bandwango raises $3.1M to power tourism- and experience-focused deals

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You might think that a startup whose primary customers are tourism bureaus would have had a pretty rough 2020, but CEO Monir Parikh said Bandwango ‘s customer base more than doubled in the past year, growing from 75 to 200. The startup had previously raised only $700,000 in funding.).

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Purple Elephant Ventures, Kenya’s tourism-focused startup studio, raises $1M pre-seed funding

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A Kenya-based venture studio with a focus on tourism, Purple Elephant Ventures (PEV), has raised $1 million pre-seed funding to build the next generation of startups that use technology to modernize the tourism sector. I think what’s exciting for the team is all of the possibilities to digitize tourism for a greener future.

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Sumutasu secures $10M to digitize Japan’s real estate market

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In Japan, where the real estate market is fragmented, homeowners have faced uncertain selling prices riddled with brokerage fees and an average selling period of between four and eight months, Ito said. per the 2020 report of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT). and the U.K., and the U.K., While the U.S.

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Easol raises $25M for its experiences and event marketing, booking and payments platform

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The gradual return of tourism and travel in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic continues to see a wave of startups raising rounds of funding to meet new opportunities in the market. “We see that as a major opportunity, giving creators the chance to get inventory from elsewhere and push theirs out to other places.”

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H2O Hospitality secures $30M Series C to expedite hotel digital transformation

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With Southeast Asia’s joint fund, Kejora-Intervest Growth Fund also joined in the round, it is a sign that H2O Hospitality will be focusing specifically on the Southeast Asian Market. We believe the inbound tourism market will recover within a year as the vaccinations grow for both countries (Korea and Japan),” Lee said.

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Monday.com opens its APAC headquarters in Sydney

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The company now has 13,000 customers in Australia, including Canva, Tourism Australia, Officeworks and Kmart. In terms of localizing monday.com for the Australian market, Swan said it is prioritizing sectors that are especially relevant in the country, including retail, marketing, project and portfolio management, FSI and manufacturing.

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