GetYourGuide

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GetYourGuide
Website logo
"Love Where You're Going"
Online tourism platform
languages 22 languages
operator GetYourGuide AG
user unknown (web)

211,000 (app, 11/2013)

On-line 2008
http://www.getyourguide.de/
GetYourGuide headquarters in Berlin

GetYourGuide is a website where tourists can book activities such as tours and excursions, and book sightseeing tickets . GetYourGuide currently offers more than 30,000 products in around 8,000 travel destinations around the world, making it the world's largest online booking platform for tours and leisure activities.

Third-party providers can place promotional offers. Companies offer sightseeing , sports and adventure activities, multi-day tours, tickets and other products and can upload and manage them under their own brand. Customers can book these products directly on the website or via iOS and Android apps as well as through our own sales network with around 1,500 online travel agencies and tour operators . GetYourGuide receives a market-dependent commission for bookings.

Company history

The website is run by the Swiss startup GetYourGuide AG, founded in 2008 by Johannes Reck and Tao Tao . It employs around 100 people at its main location in Berlin and has two additional offices in Las Vegas and Zurich . In April 2013 GetYourGuide acquired the competing website “Gidsy”. GetYourGuide cooperates with other websites such as TripAdvisor and Expedia . The company has two main competitors in its market, "Viator" and the US start-up company "Peek.com". According to its own information, GetYourGuide has so far acquired almost $ 100 million in capital, but has not yet been profitable in any financial year.

In 2017, GetYourGuide received an additional $ 75 million from previous investors KKR, Spark, Highland Capital Partners, Nokia Growth Partners and Sunstone Capital.

In May 2019, it will be announced that GetYourGuide has received $ 484 million in funding from Softbank , Lakestar, Heartcore Capital and the Singapore sovereign wealth fund Temasek .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lomas, Natasha. With 210,000 Users In Europe, Travel Startup GetYourGuide Takes Its iOS & Android Apps Stateside . Tech crunch. Retrieved March 15, 2014.
  2. ↑ a b c Lora Kolodny: GetYourGuide Finds You Leisure Activities at Your Travel Destination . The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved March 15, 2014.
  3. ↑ Kathryn Dill: Up-And-Comers: Travel Guides . Forbes. Retrieved March 17, 2014.
  4. ↑ a b Max Boenke: Big tour buys small tour . Berliner Morgenpost, April 24, 2013, p. 8.
  5. ↑ René Gribnitz: Green stars invest in GetYourGuide vacation portal , Berliner Morgenpost, January 30, 2014. Accessed June 25, 2014.
  6. ^ A b Greg Williams: Europe's hottest startup capitals: Berlin . In: European Startups . Wired.co.uk. Retrieved March 15, 2014.
  7. ↑ Natasha Lomas: GetYourGuide Gets $ 4.5M Series A Expansion, From Ex-Booking.com CEO (& Others), To Help It Scale Globally. TechChrunch, January 3, 2014. Retrieved June 26, 2014.
  8. ↑ Ben Rooney: Gidsy Acquired by Berlin Rival . The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved March 15, 2014.
  9. ↑ From start-up to world market leader. In: www.ethz.ch. Retrieved December 6, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Getyourguide: $ 75 million for the travel guide - WiWo founder . In: WiWo founder . November 2, 2017 ( wiwo.de [accessed March 3, 2018]).
  11. ↑ GetYourGuide: Softbank joins Berlin start-up. Retrieved May 27, 2019 .