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Viator, Inc Profile - San Francisco, CA 94105-4128 - Headquarters Location 15023628. Getyourguide.com. Getyourguide.com is 5 Years, 8 Months, 6 Days old. GETYOURGUIDE.COM has rank on the internet. This rank shows site's popularity. Lower rank means more visitors that site gets. This website is estimated to get unique visitors per day. These unique visitors make pageviews. Alexa Traffic Graph Analysis Click on the tabs below to explore website's Traffic Rank, Reach, Pageviews, Pageviews/User, Bounce %, Time on Site and Search % history. Traffic Rank Reach Pageviews Pageviews/User Bounce % Time on Site Search % Select Range: Query Popularity & Competition Query Popularity is an estimate of how frequently users search for keywords, on a scale from 0 to 100. Competition indicates advertising competition for a query based on number of ads displayed for keyword searches on major search engines.

Mywot.com - Reputation rating The WOT reputation system computes website reputations using information received from users and other sources. Domain Name Analysis Google Pagerank Analysis. An inside look at Switzerland’s seriously ambitious startup scene. Ah, Switzerland. The land of chocolate, cow-bells, skiing and prices that make you want to cry. A place that has built a global brand on providing a safe, risk-free haven for other people’s money and not being disruptive or belligerent.

Clean, orderly and wonderfully peaceful — yes, the clichés are true. Not then, you might think, a country especially suited to launching a startup — but you’d be wrong. Long a hub for high-tech and medical sciences, Switzerland now boasts an ecosystem of Internet entrepreneurs that’s blossoming as fast as the proverbial Edelweiss in spring. “I don’t know any other country on Earth that is so good at seed funding,” enthuses Johannes Reck, co-founder and CEO of GetYourGuide.

“In literally every other country in the world I’ve been to, entrepreneurs struggle so hard to get their first seed funding,” he says. Government and University Funding “The situation here for startups is very good, they get a lot of help,” he told me. Zurich Location. Online Holiday Events Booking Platform GetYourGuide Raises $14M Series A To Internationalize Content, Zero In On Mobile.

Swiss startup GetYourGuide, an online booking platform for holiday tours and attractions that started life as a student project three and a half years ago, has closed a $14 million Series A funding round (as reported earlier by Der Sonntag), with investment from Spark Capital and Highland Capital Partners Europe, the newly opened European arm of Highland Capital Partners.

Online Holiday Events Booking Platform GetYourGuide Raises $14M Series A To Internationalize Content, Zero In On Mobile

Highland Capital Partners Europe’s General Partner Fergal Mullen and Spark Capital General Partner Alex Finkelstein will join the GetYourGuide board. Earlier this year GetYourGuide snagged a $2 million seed investment, and back in 2009 raised $500,000 pre-seed – taking its total funding to date to $16.5 million. “We are a very bootstrapped company,” CEO Johannes Reck tells TechCrunch. “We grew to quite a sizeable amount of revenue — we have more than 10,000 transactions per month — on very little money so far, purely through tech.” Raises $14 Million Series A Round from Spark Capital and Highland Capital Partners Europe. Press Releases GetYourGuide Raises $14 Million Series A Round from Spark Capital and Highland Capital Partners Europe GetYourGuide announces the closing of its $14 million Series A round of funding from Spark Capital and Highland Capital Partners Europe.

Raises $14 Million Series A Round from Spark Capital and Highland Capital Partners Europe

Online Activity Portal, GetYourGuide, Expands Into France, Spain and Italy With Bespoke Language Websites. Press Releases.

Online Activity Portal, GetYourGuide, Expands Into France, Spain and Italy With Bespoke Language Websites

Press. TUI and GetYourGuide Join Forces to Revolutionize Travel Agency Distribution. Press Releases TUI and GetYourGuide Join Forces to Revolutionize Travel Agency Distribution Exclusive partnership offers benefits for travel agencies and vacationers.

TUI and GetYourGuide Join Forces to Revolutionize Travel Agency Distribution

Cache.graphicslib.viator.com/graphicslib/aboutUs/Viator Fact Sheet_FEB 2013 V2_3873_1.pdf. GetYourGuide - Five Forces Analysis. GetYourGuide raises $14M for tours and activities push in new markets. In what could be one of the biggest investments so far in the growing online tours and activities sector, GetYourGuide has grabbed $14 million from Spark Capital and Highland Capital Partners Europe.

GetYourGuide raises $14M for tours and activities push in new markets

The company says the Series A investment round will be used help with “rapid growth” into new markets. Priceline’s Booking.com triples mobile booking transactions - Mobile Commerce Daily - Revenue. The Booking.com Kindle Fire app Priceline’s Booking.com has seen the total transaction value of mobile hotel bookings rise from $1 billion in 2011 to more than $3 billion in 2012.

Priceline’s Booking.com triples mobile booking transactions - Mobile Commerce Daily - Revenue

In addition, more than 20 million mobile applications have been downloaded to date. The latest data is proof that mobile bookings are growing – especially because of its convenience. “The success is related to two major factors: the quality of our service with our broad reach in terms of accommodations, languages, guest reviews etc., and the quality of our mobile products on the various platforms,” said Olivier Voute, director of mobile marketing at Booking.com. “Having said that, the real driver of success is mostly related to the consumer shift towards mobile and our ability to offer them a great service on the various platforms with our apps on mobile sites,” he said. Driving bookingsThrough the booking.com mobile app, consumers are able to view their account, sign-in and browse their credit card details.

295,310 hotels worldwide. 19+ million hotel reviews. Book Amazing Activities, Tours, and more. Tours, Sightseeing Tours & Things to Do Worldwide! Tours, sightseeing tours, activities & things to do. Vayable - Tours, trips and other things to do on vacation. Tours and activities: Still looking for breakthrough company. This is part two of our three part series on the online tours and activities market, focusing on the buzz around venture-backed startups in the space.

Tours and activities: Still looking for breakthrough company

Part one here. There are only a handful of companies that matter these days in selling tours and activities, and they are a mix of old-guard established companies, a hungry wannabe, and an online travel agency making some overtures. And, although there has been venture capital money funneling into the sector, the track record has seen a paucity of success stories. “There are never any winners in the space,” one experienced travel-industry investor chimes in, dismissing the tours and activities sector. Viator’s long wait. Tour booking site GetYourGuide raises $14 million.