TourScanner aims to be the first access point to the entire catalogue of Tours & Activities available Worldwide
LISBON, PORTUGAL – TourScanner, the first meta-search engine(1) specializing in tours and travel activities, announces the immediate launch of its consumer service online.
TourScanner provides travelers with an advanced one-stop solution to search and compare tours and activities by aggregating offers from all the largest online marketplaces, and making them easily accessible on a single platform. No other engine can provide the speed, choice and dynamic results for today’s travelers.
The Tours & Travel sector was valued at US$147billion in 2017(2) and is growing 9% a year(3). Meta-search has revolutionized the Flights and Accommodation sectors (e.g SkyScanner and Trivago) but until TourScanner Tours search has not benefited. Travelers spend days and visit dozens of websites researching Tours before they arrive, TourScanner will disrupt this saving them significant time and money.
TourScanner has partnered with multiple leading Online Travel Agencies (OTAs) such as Viator, Tiqets or Headout amassing over 500,000 tours and activities on its platform. More OTAs will be added especially in Asia and Australia to address the huge demand.
“Travelers can rely on TourScanner to find any tours in any cities with the best deals in minutes” said CEO Simone Semprini.
38 websites, 45 days(4) to plan your trips, and no meta search engines for tours.
“We provide a platform where travelers can search all the tours and travel activities available on the Web, so they don’t waste time searching or miss any good deals,” said Simone Semprini. “Before TourScanner, travelers had to trawl through many websites to find their ideal tours. It was time-consuming and difficult to compare offers. But TourScanner is an instant single-source of best aggregated deals at your vacation destination.”
“Our vision is to become the Skyscanner or Trivago of tours and travel activities” Mr. Semprini added.
(1) A metasearch engine is a search tool that uses another search engine's data to produce its own results from the Internet. Metasearch engines take input from a user and simultaneously send out queries to third party search engines for results.
(2) Phocuswright
(3) Phocuswright
(4) Expedia
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