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Travel that you can feel good about - Viatu is the next-gen travel platform that lets you design, share and book your complete sustainable trip with ease. Most of us like to go away when we get time off work. The problem is that planning and booking a trip away can equal the stress that we’re trying to escape. Not to mention that there’s no getting around the fact that travelling ab...
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Investment success for Augmented Reality startup Imvizar to support further development of its innovative AR technology and accelerate the company's global expansion. Irish startup, Imvizar, has announced that it has secured €800,000 in seed investment from a group of prominent angel investors, Enterprise Ireland and Halo Business Angels Network, HBAN.  Among the investors are Garet...
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  High-potential social impact startups sought for the 9th annual Les Tremplins by Voyage Privé programme. Voyage Privé is proud to announce the launch of its 9th annual Les Tremplins by Voyage Privé competition for two high-potential social impact start-ups to win bespoke mentoring on its accelerated two-month programme. This is the first time this ...
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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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