Dan Peltier

A $20 million investment in a consumer travel content company? From one to another, that's nice news, but we struggle to see how much growth it can really have.

These are the newest travel startups from AngelList vying for travelers’ interest and investors’ attention.

Smartphones continue gaining ground with online travel bookings, albeit slowly, and mobile web still outpaces what can be clunky mobile app user experiences.

Startup fever gives rise to new entrants that believe they have a chance to compete and while some do, most have to fight hard to wrestle any market share away from major travel companies.

These are the newest travel startups from AngelList vying for travelers’ interest and investors’ attention.

As the world's fastest-growing region for tourism it's a good sign that some Asian countries can expect to see healthy travel and tourism investment during the next 10 years. But a number of factors could alter these projections, particularly the Chinese market, as more global tourism trends are tested in this region.

OnceThere has proven it can attract some investor attention but tours and activities is a sometimes-low margin business and it's next step is demonstrating it can link up with more booking sites in the U.S. and around the world.

These are the newest travel startups from AngelList vying for travelers’ interest and investors’ attention.

More consumers have a credit card that lets them earn loyalty points with a travel brand but they want earning and redeeming to be more convenient for them, a shortcoming that some brands have tackled and one that's left others with catching up to do.

More companies want to own the entire travel journey and that means getting into the weeds of what travelers do while they're traveling. But tours and activities is hardly an easy sector to enter; throw in so-called expert locals with little tourism training and you're in murky waters.