Analysis

February 16, 2021

GetYourGuide hails "inflection point" in travel sector

The company will use the financing to build out its customer experience in preparation for the tourism bounceback. But how, exactly?


Credit: GetYourGuide

GetYourGuide was thriving before the pandemic struck. The German booking platform for travel experiences raised $484m from Softbank in April 2019, bringing their valuation to $1bn, and had passed the 25m mark on the number of tickets sold. 

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GetYourGuide's cofounders: Johannes Reck and Tao Tao.
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Miriam Partington

Miriam Partington was a senior reporter at Sifted, based in Berlin. She covered the DACH region and the future of work, and wrote Startup Life , a weekly newsletter on what it takes to build a startup.

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