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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. social media posts and web pages).

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What fuels Soltour’s strategy of digitalization and innovation

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It allows tourism companies to anticipate demand, optimize resource management, and improve sustainability, he says.And in an environment where speed, precision, and personalization are essential, its vital to adopt solutions to improve the customer experience and be on the front foot to new market changes.

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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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Social services provider uses artificial intelligence to provide genuine help

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For Colsubsidio , a non-profit provider of a wide array of social services in Colombia, the recent pandemic underscored the need to respond quickly to a major crisis to diminish the harm felt by communities with limited resources.

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Getaway, a startup building tiny cabins, raises $41.7M

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Those cabins sound perfect for socially distanced retreats, with guests checking themselves in, each cabin built with its own fire pit and spaced 50 to 150 feet from the others and there were no common areas. ” Where top VCs are investing in travel, tourism and hospitality tech.

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Do you need another app to discover beautiful places when you travel?

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But Backdrop is not unlike other global social media platforms that allow users to take ephemeral photos, flex their lifestyle on disappearing stories or discover millions of personalized short videos. Social media and travel. Social media platforms are known to be hyper-focused on user growth before making revenue or profits.

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Fast Forward Venture Studio to build African startups from idea to scale

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Bumpa is a social commerce platform for over 100,000 small businesses (Lara is a founding executive); it recently integrated with Meta to sync between apps and is currently closing a seed round. Purple Elephant Ventures, Kenya’s tourism-focused startup studio, raises $1M pre-seed funding.

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