Online travel site Peek wants to make it easy for users to discover and book experiences in a variety of destinations, so it rolled out services to three new cities — New York, Miami and Orlando. Users can now eat their way through the High Line’s food trucks, book a catamaran off the coast of Miami, or charter a private sword fishing trip near Ft. Lauderdale. → Read More
Secret Escapes, an online ‘flash sales’ free-to-join members club for luxury holidays and hotel rooms, has raised a new funding round totaling £8 million ($12.8m) to bolster its position in the U.K. market and support international launches in the U.S., Germany and the Nordic countries. The round was led by new investor Index Ventures. → Read More
Fair warning: This is where I get all MG on you guys.
As someone who just spent forty weeks traveling around the world, there is no category of consumer Web sites that makes me angrier than online travel sites. More than any other category on the Web, the early incumbents– online travel agents like Expedia and Travelocity– rafted on an early tidal wave of massive convenience and cost savings… → Read More
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