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  Virtually Visiting is an online platform enabling users to experience their dream destination from the comfort of their own home via immersive 360 video tours. How many times have you had cause to look up a location in Google street view, perhaps out of simple curiosity of what another part of the world looks like, and found yourself lost for a while digitally touring that little town in ...
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Data Duopoly is a Cornwall-based tourism startup that's on a mission to drive growth at venues whilst improving the customer experience for visitors. Many of us have probably visited tourist attractions in the past and have either been a tad confused about exactly where to go, what to see or have perhaps even missed out on seeing something we’d really wanted to. That, however, need no lon...
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Business in the travel and tourism sector? Professor Geoffrey Lipman, President SUN x shares his insights on why the Glasgow Declaration is simply a first step With all the news coming out of the Glasgow summit everyone is aware that Net Zero 2050 is the COP 26 promoted target in its Race to Zero campaign, and it is a key focus for green tourism. What does this mean for the Travel & Touris...
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Erik Wolf, founder of the World Food Travel Association on the opportunities for regions to use their unique and memorable food and beverage products and experience to boost tourism When we return from our holidays, we usually hear two common questions from friends and family: “How was the weather?” and “How was the food?”. One of the most popular television categories d...
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  Irish startup Campsited secures funding to continue its mission to become the best and easiest way for people to find and book campsites It’s time to look into the near future, at a time when we are free to travel once again. A time that might be hard to imagine at the moment, but that is nonetheless on its way. Once the world opens back up, we have a feeling there will be more holi...
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In order to combat some of the impact caused by the coronavirus, many tourism companies are, or could, turn to tech solutions. Here's a few new and existing tech focused innovations, care of the team at luggage storage app Bounce, that might offer up some inspiration to others. It’s no exaggeration to say that the coronavirus has impacted the entire world.  With most countries in...
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Ivana Dobrilovic from LuggageHero shares her thoughts on the tech trends that will impact the travel and tourism industry in 2020Although Bleisure (Business + Leisure) was a trend of the past decade, it’s definitely something we’ll see rolling into the 2020s where working to live and living to work is a way of life. We’re repeatedly told that all you need is a good laptop and a g...
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Experience cities like a local, thanks to London-based Like Locals, the startup aiming to provide self-guided trails crafted by a community of local insiders... When you go abroad and you want to tour a city, locals are obviously the best people to show you around and tell you the interesting tidbits about the place. But you don’t necessarily want to share your holiday with a stranger, you ...
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London-based disruptive tourism and travel startup NAVA, the innovative recommendation service that matches people to venues around them using artificial intelligence, has been named the winner of the 2019 Travel Technology Europe Disrupt Award.  After a rigorous application process, 10 companies were shortlisted, and asked to present their innovation to the Travel Technology Europe&nbs...
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A few weeks ago, IGO Adventures announced the launch of a crowdfunding round on leading equity investment platform Seedrs. The company, which launched in 2016, takes groups of people into the wilderness to disconnect from the digital world and reconnect with nature. The global adventure tourism market was valued at $445 billion in 2016, and is projected to reach $1,336 bi...
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