Skift Take
Big travel companies had higher priorities than to share data among one another. That's one of the reasons Journera didn't succeed.
Seven-year-old travel tech startup Journera, which aimed to provide data to hotels and airlines to enable seamless customer trips, announced Thursday that it ceased operations.
The company said it didn't see a path to profitability. The number of employees impacted were in the "low-20s," Journera founder and CEO Jeffrey Katz told Skift Friday.
Katz said there were several reasons Journera couldn't scale profitably. Among them were the pandemic, the introduction of GDPR (Ge