Travel Business and Startups

Lonely Planet - travel, app, agents, experiences

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A collection of resources about Lonely Planet, covering travel guides, mobile applications, travel agents, and immersive experiences. Thi...

Travel Startups - focused on finding travel agents, experiences

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A collection of resources about travel startups, emphasizing innovative approaches to connecting travelers with agents and unique experie...

• Article Uber's New Viator Partnership Highlights Increased Fragmentation in Online Travel
• Article French travel startup Evaneos raises $81 million to fuel international expansion | VentureBeat
• Article How TripAdvisor changed travel | News | The Guardian
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Travel, Flight and Airline Business

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a collection of articles looking at Travel, Flight and Airline Business

• Article How ‘Secret Fares’ Might Change the Way You Fly
• Website Repriced
• Website Flight Connections - all flight routes worldwide
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Learn to be a pilot - Flight simulators, and the Airline Business

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Learn to be a pilot - Flight simulators, and the Airline Business

• Video What It Takes To Become A Pilot — inside United's Simulator - CNBC
• Website Microsoft Flight Simulator - The next generation of one of the most beloved simulation franchises
• Video Partnership Series: Blackshark.ai - Microsoft Flight Simulator

Travel Startups

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entrepreneurs innovating in the travel, tourism and hospitality space

• Article Upstart Travel Companies Show Pitch to Millennials Is Evolving – Skift
• Article Bandwango raises $3.1M to power tourism- and experience-focused deals – TechCrunch
• Article Sourced Adventures – Adventure Travel Startup ($125,000/mo)
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Hotel and Hospitality Business

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a collection of articles and resources looking at the Hotel and Hospitality Business

• Article Case Study: Should a Hotel Giant Eliminate Some Brands and Refocus?
• Article Cuomo signs bill prohibiting Airbnb listings in NYC
• Article Some hotels charge visitors for bad reviews
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Technology - Hotel and Hospitality Business

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Technology - Hotel and Hospitality Business

• Article With its tech, Nuvola helps the world's hotels run smoothly - Refresh Miami
• Article Impala raises $20 million to build the API of the hotel industry

Travel and Tourism companies - struggles and failures

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entrepreneurs innovating in the travel, tourism and hospitality space

• Article This week’s dead Google product is Google Trips, may it rest in peace | Ars Technica
• Article Travel planning software: The most common bad startup idea
• Article Hundreds of thousands stranded after travel firm Thomas Cook collapses - 2019 - Reuters

TripAdvisor, Travel, and the Business of Reviews

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a collection of articles and resources looking at TripAdvisor, Travel, and the Business of Reviews

• Article Uber's New Viator Partnership Highlights Increased Fragmentation in Online Travel
• Article Opinion | Don’t Let TripAdvisor Kill Adventure - The New York Times
• Article How TripAdvisor changed travel | News | The Guardian
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Travel, tour operators - book experiences

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A collection of resources about travel and tour operators, focusing on booking experiences. This compilation covers best practices for se...

• Article Airbnb is expanding its Experiences feature to 200 cities this year - The Verge
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Viator - a travel, tour operators to book experiences from TripAdvisor

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Viator - a travel, tour operators to book experiences from TripAdvisor

• Article Tripadvisor Files Paperwork to Take Viator Public
• Article Uber's New Viator Partnership Highlights Increased Fragmentation in Online Travel

Business of Reviews — Yelp, Foursquare and Others

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a collection of articles and resources looking at the online Business of Reviews — by Yelp, Foursquare and Others

• Article Some hotels charge visitors for bad reviews
• Article Everything You Need To Know About Zocdoc | The Motley Fool
• Article Google to Sell Zagat to The Infatuation, an Upstart Review Site - The New York Times
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Airbnb: online marketplace and hospitality service

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a collection of articles about airbnb

• Article Brian Chesky: How selling cereal got AirBnB out of debt
• Article How Airbnb is putting AMP at the core of its digital strategy | Medium
• Article Why Unicorns Like Uber And Airbnb Aren't Going Public - Nasdaq.com
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Airbnb Experiences - local courses, book guides

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Airbnb Experiences - local courses, book guides

• Article I Escaped Our Weird Reality with Airbnb Online Experiences
• Article Airbnb is expanding its Experiences feature to 200 cities this year - The Verge
• Article Airbnb CEO says there's an 'Amazon-sized' market for selling experiences
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Foursquare

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Foursquare, is a local search-and-discovery mobile app which provides search results for its users. Recommendations of places to go near...

• Podcast Foursquare CEO Jeff Glueck on using data to map the global economy | This Week In Startups
• SlideShare Foursquare's 1st Pitch Deck
• Article You Might Not Be Checking In on Foursquare, But Foursquare Is Checking In on You
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Airbnb

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online marketplace and hospitality services, short-term lodging including holiday cottages, apartments, homestays, hostel beds, or hotel ...

• Article It took 10 years for Airbnb to reach full-year profitability - Recode
• Video How Airbnb’s CEO uses an Unconventional Management Approach to Drive the $85 Billion Brand
• Article Airbnb's $1 billion funding round shows why tech startups still aren't going public
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Unique accommodations - Airbnb, Vrbo examples

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Unique accommodations - Airbnb, Vrbo examples

• Article Inside the world’s most booked Airbnb

Airbnb - competitors, alternatives for renting housing, apartments

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a collection of articles about Airbnb - competitors, alternatives for renting housing, apartments

• Article Vacation rentals: 9 alternatives to Airbnb - Curbed
• Website Kindred - Travel: Home Swapping & Exchange Network for Members-Only
• Article Airbnb-backed OYO moves into Europe, buys Leisure Group from Axel Springer for $415M – TechCrunch
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Airbnb - online travel experiences

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Airbnb - online travel experiences

• Article I Escaped Our Weird Reality with Airbnb Online Experiences
• Article Their Businesses Went Virtual. Then Apple Wanted a Cut. - The New York Times

Corporate travel - benefit, policy, technology

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Corporate travel - benefit, policy, technology

• Article International Travel Guide - Basecamp · GitHub
• Article Chase to Launch Consumer Travel Portal; Claims Top 5 U.S. Travel Provider With $8 Billion in Sales
• Article TripActions – Andreessen Horowitz

Airbnb - cities and affordable housing

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Airbnb - cities and affordable housing

• Article France Airbnb: Paris hails victory over short-stay rents
• Article The Airbnb Invasion of Barcelona | The New Yorker
• AiChat Spain orders Airbnb to remove 65,000 holiday rentals
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Ticket sellers - travel experience companies and platforms

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travel experiences

• Article Airbnb is expanding its Experiences feature to 200 cities this year - The Verge
• Article Uber's New Viator Partnership Highlights Increased Fragmentation in Online Travel
• Article Airbnb CEO says there's an 'Amazon-sized' market for selling experiences
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Oyo - budget hotel startup from India

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Travel startup from India

• Article Airbnb-backed OYO moves into Europe, buys Leisure Group from Axel Springer for $415M – TechCrunch
• Article Microsoft in talks to back India’s Oyo – TechCrunch
• Article Indian Hotel-Booking Startup Oyo Raises $1 Billion to Fund Overseas Push || Bloomberg
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Zeus Living - Airbnb competitor, alternative for renting housing, apartments

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Zeus Living - Airbnb competitor, alternative for renting housing, apartments

• Article Airbnb invests as Zeus corporate housing raises $55M at $205M – TechCrunch
• Article Zeus Living lost millions after Covid struck. Here's how it resurrected itself. (Video)

Travel startups - companies involved in tourism, travel

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Travel startups - companies involved in tourism, travel

• Website Repriced
• Article Travel planning software: The most common bad startup idea
• Article Uber's New Viator Partnership Highlights Increased Fragmentation in Online Travel
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Sonder - vacation rental business - Airbnb competitor

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Sonder - vacation rental business - Airbnb competitor

• Article Sonder Slashes Workforce by More Than 20 Percent, Including Top Tech Exec - Skift
• Article Hospitality Startup Sonder Raises $170 Million At A $1.3 Billion Valuation During Covid-19 Travel Collapse
• Article Sonder Takes Next Step Toward Stock Market Listing in Mid-January

Redeam - travel startup, company, industry

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Redeam - travel startup, company, industry

Google in the Travel Industry

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Google in the Travel Industry

• Article Google Flights Could Shift Strategy After Heavy Layoffs
• Article A Deep Dive Into Google’s Impact on Travel 2022
• Article Google enters travel market (2011)