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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. or to places.”

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Travel technology platform Spotnana launches with $41M

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Waghmar, who has a background in the travel industry founding and leading digital travel company WTMC, told TechCrunch that scaling in the industry was difficult due to it being “highly broken and highly fragmented.”. Where top VCs are investing in travel, tourism and hospitality tech. Travel is a $1.4

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Surging homegrown talent and VC spark Italy’s tech renaissance

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As Italy reinstates many COVID-19 restrictions, the country’s tech ecosystem is watching and waiting to see what the wider effects of the emergency will be. Italy’s ecosystem for tech venture capital and startups has been in development for years and has made decent strides in the last decade.

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

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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. The trio met over six years ago at a Zikoko, an Africa-focused youth publication, and their careers in tech and digital media branched out from there. .

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

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Each payment integration requires in-house technical work and the remodeling of one’s platform to fit their plugins. . It’s an extensive process that has seen some Big Tech companies build dedicated teams to manage different connections, data and cycles with the payments gateways in the markets where they are present.

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SmarterTravel sheds HopJump name, begins a new journey with $9.5M round

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Before, you might have combed through reviews, but now you just want an expert to tell you, and that is what we are.”. When no one was traveling due to COVID, the company acquired travel companies and made it through the pandemic while other startups in the space were struggling. travel and tourism industry valued at $580.7

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

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per the 2020 report of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT). The Japanese real estate tech startup operates its service in Tokyo but plans to take it to more areas like Osaka and Nagoya. and the U.K., Sumutasu says its platform enables users to access a fair house valuation in an hour. .