Travel & Sports Australia

Travefy | February 24, 2017

Each week we create a roundup of travel startups that have received or announced funding that week. The total amount raised this week was more than $64.8 million....

Swift Travel Deals | July 19, 2017

For entrepreneur Ileaa Swift, travel isn’t just about places -- it’s about people, too. In 2012, she founded Swift Travel Deals with a vision of helping everyone, no matter their income, find opportunities to experience the world firsthand. Since starting the agency, she and her 38 full- and part-time employees have helped more than 200,000 clients book dream trips. And many people with tight budgets have satisfied their wanderlust, thanks to her firm’s use of payment plans to make travel more a...

smallbiztrends | September 12, 2017

Concur Hipmunk has announced a new lightweight travel and expense solution for small businesses. Built on top of the technology from Hipmunk, Concur Expense, and TripLink, it will provide access and visibility with basic tools for managing travel programs. Businesses using cloud-based travel and expense platforms spend less time on travel planning and creating expense reports. Even though Concur works with many small businesses, the company says many are too small for a fully-managed program. Wi...

skift | September 21, 2018

Setoo is helping to pioneer a wave of customized protection products, such as letting travelers buy coverage to get money back if there’s not enough snow during a ski trip. The new products could provide more upselling opportunities for travel suppliers and online agencies. which builds a platform that lets companies create insurance and protection products, has raised $9.3 million, or €8 million, in a seed round.Kamet, a fund backed by insurance giant AXA Group, led the round, which ...