Lovetovisit.com, the UK’s largest reserving web site of ‘issues to do’, has raised £600k from its founders and £1.5m from angel and company buyers, together with £250,000 from Zip World, the award-winning expertise pioneer, to nook the UK home journey market.
Additional raises will observe as Lovetovisit.com plans to launch within the UAE first half of 2023 and within the US finish of 2023, aiming to develop month-to-month customers to 10 million by the tip of 2023.
Launched in early 2022, Lovetovisit.com is a revolutionary digital platform eradicating the friction between discovering and reserving days out and ‘issues to do’, permitting customers to browse and e-book 1000’s of points of interest, experiences, actions, theatres and occasions with out having to go away the platform or pay membership charges. The platform additionally affords smaller companies and experiences the flexibility to digitise ticket gross sales and has been dubbed because the ‘Uber Eats’ for the UK tourism and leisure trade.
CEO of Lovetovisit.com, Fed Pereira, stated:
“We have already got the biggest bookable stock of ‘issues to do’ within the UK. Now with Zip World’s funding we are able to proceed our progress and maximise alternative within the £24 billon UK client market. Finally it should result in a rise of bookings throughout the trade, exposing audiences to extra ‘issues to do’ inspiration than ever earlier than.”
Pereira added:
“It’s implausible to have assist from Zip World given their place and standing in tourism. Each our companies are bold and ahead pondering so it’s an important match. It additionally provides us an unimaginable wealth of expertise and enterprise acumen to faucet into at Zip World.”
Founder and President of Zip World, Sean Taylor, stated:
“The partnership is a transparent assertion from Zip World Group about how we see the way forward for home tourism and the significance of tech innovation and robust digital content material. Shoppers need selection, they need discovery and reserving to be easy, they usually need the net expertise to be enjoyable – that’s precisely what Lovetovisit.com affords.”
Taylor added:
“This an important instance of two revolutionary Welsh corporations working collectively and we’re actually enthusiastic about its potential. We’ve been investing considerably in Zip World to cement our place as a world-class attraction group and now, by this partnership, we’re investing in the way forward for the home tourism trade.”
About Lovetovisit.com
The distinctive platform has attracted lots of of points of interest in lower than 12 months by fixing the 2 largest obstacles the UK vacationer economic system faces to assist it recuperate efficiently post-pandemic with the UK experiences market income valued at £24 billion, rising 15% YOY.
1) Digitisation – the platform does all of the exhausting work and is cellular optimised.
2) Advertising and marketing – the platform is looking for to draw 10 million customers by this time subsequent yr enabling a small boat journey firm in Newquay to have the identical publicity because the London Eye.
An inventory on Lovetovisit.com not solely makes it simpler than ever earlier than for customers to e-book journeys and experiences, but in addition supplies a key function in supporting small and medium sized tourism companies, preserving regional tradition and employment.
The partnership follows the accolade of ‘One to Watch’ awarded to co-founding twins Georgia and Alice Aubrey within the John Hays Entrepreneur of the Yr class on the Journey Trade Awards in September 2022. Georgia and Alice have been additionally finalists within the 2022 UK AccelerateHER awards, and Georgia was not too long ago listed as Cardiff College Alumni 30 below 30.
The tech firm additionally scooped Cardiff Begin Up of the Yr on the StartUp Awards Nationwide Collection in June.
