Booking Boss raises $2 million in Series A round ahead of European expansion
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Renee Welsh, co-founder and CEO of Booking Boss, said that bringing the Dempseys on board will prove invaluable to the company as it looks to expand globally. She added that Booking Boss expects much of its growth over the next year to come from Europe, with French tour operator ParisTrip the first European company to come on board. “Low set-up costs, low monthly fees and immediate access to updates are all powerful incentives for European operators to look beyond their local market for the best solution; in turn that makes it much easier for a company like Booking Boss to appeal to geographically remote customers.” Booking Boss was founded in 2013 as a way to assist the fragmented, labour intensive travel activities industry. “In any given day we can be speaking to a sole trader who runs awesome walking tours through to large-scale mainstream attractions. Organising the financials, capturing information about customers and fulfilling bookings are the things that really take up their day,” Welsh told Startup Daily.