Skift has listed the most impressive new or little-known travel startups worldwide including New York-based AirHelp and China's Baoku and Mileslife.
Investors and startups could finally be realising what those on the periphery have noted for years – B2B is where the sensible money and effort works.
Booking.com has joined the travel startup accelerator trend by launching its own programme with a total fund of €2 million.
Marriott’s accelerator will run as a six-week program providing mentoring and workshops from the company as well as hotel for the startup to test their service.
2015 witnessed multiple M&A and financing activities in travel industry and 2016 will see much more difficulties in financing for startups which could also find a way out by finding out the right niche market and customer segment and building in their traction.
It’s been a couple of years since Tnooz profiled Tansler, a New York startup that runs reverse auctions for vacation rentals.
Bus-share startup DadaBus announced it raised RMB200 million (approx: US$31.4 million) in its B Series financing round.
When TripAdvisor announced its $200 million acquisition of Viator last September, the intentions of the world’s biggest travel company were clear.
