INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The venture community has been fixated on travel and hospitality since the dot-com era and early-2000s, when mainstays like Kayak and Airbnb
were still Silicon Valley darlings
As the multi-trillion-dollar global travel and hospitality market continues to grow, VCs are still foaming at the mouth for the opportunity
to redefine the ways we move and stay around the world.Despite the cyclical nature of the travel sector, deal flow in travel and hospitality
has remained strong and largely stable over the last half-decade, according to data from Crunchbase and PitchBook
various sub-sectors, including bookings, activity marketplaces, short-term rental, tourism and hotel platforms
And companies are continuing to pull in funding rounds in the hundreds of millions to billion-dollar range, such as India hotel network
company Oyo, which raised $1.5 billion in funding as recently as December.While VC investment in the space has remained resilient, some
To get a temperature check on the state of the travel market, the outlook for fundraising and which sub-sectors might present the most
them most and where they see opportunity in travel, tourism and hospitality tech:
