GetYourGuide to be sole provider of tours and activities to TUI agents « Tnooz. Travel agents working with TUI in Germany will have their pick of tours and activities by way of a new supplier after the tour operator turned over responsibility to GetYourGuide. As a result of the deal, TUI has stopped sourcing its own supply lines of attractions, things-to-do and tours for customers booking via offline agents and will only source product via GetYourGuide.
The partnership has the potential to be a substantial one for GetYourGuide as agents in Germany are currently booking around 30,000 city sightseeing tours 20,000 cards and 10,000 attraction tickets alone through its network of 9,000 shops across Germany. GetYourGuide, which recently closed a funding round of $14 million and has 18,000 products on its system, says it hopes to extend the partnership to other parts of the TUI empire in the long-term, including online channels. TUI will remain the merchant of record in the transaction. In destination “is a different story”, Reck claims. NB: Tour bus image via Shutterstock. 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. 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 Case in point, observers say, is Viator, an established online player, founded in 1995, that has raised some $20 million in funding from investors, including Carlyle Venture Partners and Technology Venture Partners. GetYourGuide makes boasts and enters new markets Old guard Gray Line trying new stuff. About Alcatraz Media and ReserveXL - Reserve XL. Alcatraz Media is the leading provider of destination travel products in North America. Alcatraz Media was formed in 1999.
The company began as an Internet company providing web hosting, email services, web design and development. The name “Alcatraz Media” was chosen because the founder’s home in Sausalito had a view of San Francisco Bay and Alcatraz. The name was memorable, came up high on alphabetical lists, and it was available as a corporate name (always a challenge in the huge state of California). “Alcatraz” Media (and its affiliates) sell tours, tickets, activities, attractions, entertainment, transportation, hotels, and travel services. Alcatraz Media offers tours and activities in every state with offerings in over 250 cities in North America and over 65 countries around the world.
The Reserve XL e-Commerce system ensures that the reservations process is secure and user-friendly. Reserve123.com Now Offering Statue of Liberty & Ellis Island Flex Tickets from New York. Reserve123.com, The World's Leading Online Travel Company, is now offering Statue of Liberty & Ellis Island Flex Tickets from New York to Celebrate Lady Liberty's Upcoming 126th Anniversary Atlanta, Georgia (PRWEB) October 30, 2012 Reserve123.com - the worldwide leading resource for booking more than 12,000 tours, attractions and activities in thousands of destinations throughout 160 countries – recently announced that they are now offering Statue of Liberty & Ellis Island Flex Tickets from New York.
Flex Tickets provide customers with the most freedom to tour when it is convenient for their schedules. The tour offering also serves to celebrate the upcoming 126th anniversary of the dedication of the Statue of Liberty on October 28, 1886. Statue of Liberty & Ellis Island Flex Tickets provide the round trip ferry ride from Battery Park and access to Liberty Island and Ellis Island, including the grounds of Liberty Island and the Ellis Island Immigration Museum. About Reserve123: Viator News & Press Releases. San Francisco, CA - Proving that travel really is about the experience you have once you arrive in your destination, the sale of travel activities, such as sightseeing tours, events and attractions in the United States outperformed the overall U.S. leisure travel sales market during 2009's market turmoil by 11 percentage points*, according to the soon-to-be released PhoCusWright study "When They Get There (and Why They Go)".
This trend is expected to continue as online sales of activities in the U.S. are expected to grow by 13 percent this year and 11 percent in 2012, outpacing U.S. online leisure travel sales overall, expected to grow 8 percent and 9 percent respectively. Trip activities account for $26.8 billion** of the U.S. travel market, which is more than car rental ($14.2 billion) and cruise ($12 billion) - combined - and nearly three-times as much as packaged travel ($10 billion), according to the report. "We? About Viator Media Contact Kate Sullivan pr@viator.com.
GetYourGuide lands $2M funding round from Brent Hoberman group and Swoodoo founders. More investment coming into travel startups this week, with GetYourGuide landing $2 million from a string of high profile investors. The round comes from PROfounders Capital, a European VC fund which counts Lastminute.com co-founder Brent Hoberman as one of its investors alongside Andy Phillipps (founder of Active Hotels) and Karen Hanton (founder of TopTable) Others investing in the tour and activity marketplace service include founders of Swoodoo, Christian Saller, Wolfgang Heigl and Lars Jankowfsky.
PROfounders general partner Sean Seton-Rogers will sit on the GetYourGuide advisory board as part of the investment round. GetYourGuide’s only external investment so far had come in the form of $350,000 in 2010 from Zurich Cantonal Bank and Roland Zeller, founder of Swiss online travel agency Travel.ch. It has also since gone on to work with Kayak to power the tours and activities search channel on the metasearch engine’s mobile app.
Making money from tours and activities on the web. NB: This is a guest post by Johannes Reck, CEO of GetYourGuide. We have all read the buzz around tours and activities recently, spurred in part by a study revealing the vertical is actually bigger than cruise and rental car combined. The report and subsequent travel industry interest was grist to the mills of evangelists and niche players in this field. But are we seeing the rise of a marketplace with vast distribution potential, similar to what the hotel category has been in the past 15 years? The realistic answer is, unfortunately, no. Sales from tours and attractions are mostly irrelevant to the bottom line of any large online travel website, and the few aggregating platforms such as Viator, City Discovery, Isango or GetYourGuide, for example, make a combined revenue that is still less than $300 million.
While this figure is not bad, it pales in contrast to other online travel channels and particularly to what the tours and activities market is estimated to be as a whole. 1. 2. 3. Frequently Asked Questions Travel Agents Frequently Asked Questions. Do you work with travel agents? Yes, we do pay commission on bookings you make with us. For more information on our commission structure and how to work with us please give one our G Adventure Specialists a call at 1-800-708-7761 (North America) or 0870 999 0144 (in the UK).
Back to top How do I book a tour for my client online? We have an interactive online booking engine, called "Sherpa". This innovative booking engine allows agents to book live space on our adventures, add services, retrieve invoices and vouchers as well as order brochures. Please visit www.gadventures.com/sherpa. To get started, please ask your manager for your username and login. Once logged into Sherpa, input the desired trip code into the "trip code". If you choose to Hold an Option online you can return to Sherpa to confirm the booking. How do I "Hold an Option" for my client? There are two ways to hold an option: Via Sherpa (see above) or by phone 1-800-708-7761 (North America) or 0870 999 0144 (in the UK).
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