In October last year, TripAdvisor started what has turned out to a rather aggressive period of vacuuming up startups to bolster its wider portfolio of companies.
Millions of social mentions bring the crowd to trip planning
May 2, 2013 By 2 Comments
By parsing the millions of travel mentions on social media, Suggestme.com curates an algorithmically-organized view of a city.
Mr Arlo gets in on social travel planning with blogger element for local flavour
March 28, 2013 By 1 Comment
With a background in online retail and after hours of frustration with the travel search and booking experience, Chuck Job decided to create Mr Arlo
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Fully fared: Rome2rio announces new point-to-point pricing feature
March 25, 2013 By 11 Comments
In what could be one of the most interesting new features in the travel startup space this year, point-to-point travel planning site rome2rio is now offering complete journey pricing of trips mapped out on the service.
GoEuro attracts heavy hitter funding in $4 million seed round
March 4, 2013 By 4 Comments
Multi-modal travel search is gathering pace as GoEuro today announces $4m seed funding led by Battery Ventures and Hasso Plattner Ventures
Flocations secures $600,000 funding round, aims to integrate hotels into visual search platform
December 10, 2012 By 4 Comments
Search-by-price-on-maps service Flocations has raised almost $600,000 in pre-series funding as it looks to expand its initial service to include hotel product.
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Another travel startup story: Why iGottaGuide failed
November 28, 2012 By 16 Comments
iGottaGuide was my first scalable technology startup. Prior to working with my co-founder and developer Michael Griffiths, we both had extensive experience in service-based businesses.
Social travel site Gtrot – 18 months, close to $1M in funding, two pivots, now a gift service called Boomerang
November 19, 2012 By 3 Comments
Rather peculiar turn of events in the world of social travel media startups this week as Gtrot pivoted again to become a, err, gift sending service.
Wanderu aims to be the Kayak of intercity rail and bus travel
November 5, 2012 By 2 Comments
Wanderu is a ground transport metasearch website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel.
WorldMate mobile trip manager sells to Carlson Wagonlit
October 31, 2012 By 4 Comments
Big move in the world of trip planning and travel management with business travel system provider Carlson Wagonlit expected to announce the acquisition of WorldMate.
