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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. from customer relationship management systems and jobs boards). ” Zartico launched in March 2020 — one week prior to most of the world shutting down due to the COVID-19 pandemic. or to places.”

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

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“Instagram is like an operating system for pictures. Other users review the posts before listing on the platform, either by upvotes or downvotes. They can also review others and earn redeemable points for helping build the community. Everything is happening on Instagram — travel, beauty, e-commerce.

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Swyft Cities is the winner of the TechCrunch Sessions: Mobility 2022 pitch-off!

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Swyft sees this as a new form of urban mobility that can solve transportation problems in densely developed areas, including corporate campuses, airports, universities and tourism districts. The platform is novel in that the vehicles move on a stationary cable, allowing for new connections that can be added when needed.

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MoneyHash gets $3M to build a super-API for payment operations in Africa, Mideast

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In Africa and the Middle East, these problems are magnified due to differences in payment methods, currencies and isolations between countries. MoneyHash clients cut across different industries: e-commerce, travel and tourism, and remittances, among others.

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IT to thank for most of Radisson Hotel Group’s business initiatives

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With stints at Procter & Gamble, HPE and DHL, Jaime González-Peralta landed at Radisson Hotel Group four years ago as CIO for EMEA and then became global CIO in April 2020 — a particularly complex moment due to the paralysis that the pandemic inflicted on the world of travel. We made everything new from scratch.

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5 hot IT budget investments — and 2 going cold

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This applies to his IT group as well, specifically, in using AI to automate the review of customer contracts, Nardecchia says. At the same time, Seetharaman says not all legacy technology is cold, and LGA is embracing legacy systems that enable continued business growth. “We The unified communications market’s meager 1.6%

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9 investors, execs and founders discuss Zagreb’s startup potential

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Indeed, the country is most popular as a tourist destination, and given that tourism accounted for about 20% of its GDP in 2018 , to an extent, its pre-pandemic focus was mostly on growing its share of the international tourism market. I see it blooming, mostly due to upcoming adoption of EUR as a local currency.