Last week news arrived that Gidsy, the de facto poster-child of the Berlin startup scene was being acquired and subsumed by fellow Berlin travel experience platform GetYourGuide.
No need to cry about the Berlin startup scene after the GetYourGuide-Gidsy deal
April 30, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Done deal: GetYourGuide buys Gidsy
April 24, 2013 By 4 Comments
More interesting moves in the tours and activities wing of the industry as GetYourGuide makes its first acquisition and snaps up fellow European startup Gidsy.
TripAdvisor eyes next move on travel Rubik’s Cube: Mobile destination services, tours and activities
March 20, 2013 By 3 Comments
Think the big boys in travel are not taking tours and activities seriously? Might need to think again.
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Isango white labels to continue as TUI takes over, but Qantas switches to Viator within days
March 15, 2013 By Leave a Comment
The work at TUI to integrate its latest acquisition has started, with the company claiming one of its primary motives for buying Isango was for its technology.
TUI Travel buys tours and activities specialist Isango
February 27, 2013 By 4 Comments
Tours and activities just got that little bit more interesting with news that European tour operating giant TUI Travel has bought tours and activities provider Isango.
GetYourGuide to be sole provider of tours and activities to TUI agents
February 25, 2013 By 4 Comments
Travel agents working with TUI in Germany will have their pick of tours and activities by way of a new supplier after the tour operator turned over responsibility to GetYouGuide.
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The Scan – Inside Iberostar, Wego extends, Amazon Redshift and more travel tech news
February 20, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Iberostar, Hotelbeds, Egencia, Wego, eRevMax, GetYourGuide, Etihad- Jet Airways, JetBlue, SITA, mobile in China, Viator, TradeDoubler, 3rd Planet, Amazon Redshift, Southwest Airlines, Sweetbeam and Center Parcs all get a mention in our roundup of news and hot topics on Wednesday February 20
Kayak ends tours and activities on mobile via GetYourGuide, cites low popularity with users
February 15, 2013 By 21 Comments
Mobile users with tours and activities – a perfect match, right? Perhaps not so obvious after all, with Kayak deciding to end its partner deal with GetYourGuide.
And then there were three – TripAdvisor quietly adds more tour and activity suppliers
January 10, 2013 By Leave a Comment
If tours and activities are the next big thing in online travel, then TripAdvisor is taking note – by adding a third supplier of products in recent weeks in the form of Viator.
GetYourGuide raises $14M for tours and activities push in new markets
January 7, 2013 By 7 Comments
In what could be one of the biggest investments so far in the growing online tours and activities sector, GetYourGuide has grabbed $14 million from Spark Capital and Highland Capital Partners Europe.
