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Preparing to reopen your tour, attraction or experience may feel like a daunting task. Arival spoke to Key West Food Tours and Savannah Taste Experience to find out what to expect.

The CEO of Eating Europe is preparing for Arival’s Spring into Summer Forum. He tells us why 2021 will be hard work, but better than 2020.

We asked the founders of a tour operator, an online tour provider, and a tech company what GetYourGuide’s acquisition of a tour operator means — and could mean — for our industry.

19 startups have raised $496M since the start of the pandemic, with Klook, GetYourGuide and KKDay leading the pack.

If the OTA blurred the lines between distributor and operator with its GetYourGuide-branded Originals, the acquisition of Guidatours only further signals the OTA’s bigger plans to have more say over tour supply and their customers’ experience.

How will summer 2021 play out for the in-destination industry? Spring into summer, the two-day Arival Accel Forum will ask the big questions and present the latest research.

Investors have poured more than $2.4 billion into our industry since 2017 and nearly $500 million since the pandemic. We list all of them here by funding, business model, region, and more.

Uncertainty abounds when thinking about the summer season. We chatted with tour operator veteran and business advisor Trisha Fridrich to help you get a grasp on how to prepare.

The move by one of the largest tour and activity companies signals the their intent to become not just a leading city cruise operator, but a global experiences brand. Expect more acquisitions, and more M&A overall as our industry remakes itself post-Covid.

A highlight from last week’s Content MasterClass was Creating Highly Converting Tour Pages, a class led by Jeremiah Calvino of Blend Marketing. Here are 10 key takeaways.