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Tobias Rein

GetYourGuide: Swiss Movement for Tours

2011-07-08 by Phil Butler

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Travel and tourism in the digital world is branching out in “pioneer” fashion more and more these days. One startup we took a look at today, GetYourGuide, illustrates vividly what is possible with the right people behind an endeavor. GetYourGuide, founded in 2008, is a development that has been hard at work becoming the digital world’s tour and specialty activity “go to” platform.

Tags: activity booking, city tours, City-Discovery, CrunchBase, Expedia, GetYourGuide, isango!, Johannes Reck, Martin Sieber, online marketing, OTA's, Pascal Mathis, Sabre, Tao Tao, tickets, Tobias Rein, tour bookings, tourism, travel tools, TripAdvisor, Viator

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