Freddie Mercury travel tips

Travel startups raised at least $3.7 billion in 2023. Skift tracked more than 200 travel startup fundraises through a weekly roundup article, compiled from company announcements and exclusive reporting. 

Hard Rock International is celebrating its ongoing support of the LGBTQIA+ community this Pride Month with its annual “LOVE OUT LOUD” campaign including celebratory offerings and special events across its hotels, casinos, cafes and Rock Shops® around the world. Properties will once again be showing their local support during Pride Month by donating to LGBTQIA+ organizations in their communities through Hard Rock Heals Foundation to commemorate this important moment of reflection, celebration and action for the LGBTQIA+ community.

Visitors to the Denver Zoo will quickly find out that the flamingos are local celebrities. Collectively, the 70 American and Chilean flamingos are known as flockstars and they’re each named after famous musicians. But recently, one of the zoo’s most endearing flamingos, Amott (named after Guitarist Michael Amott, a heavy metal rocker out of Sweden), gained some new fans far and wide after going viral on TikTok for hugging zoo guests.

Four travel tech startups have announced nearly $12 million in funding over the past week.

Bobby's mullet blows in the wind as he pilots his dinky motorcycle down Copenhagen's cobbled backstreets. Wobbling past kebab shops and contemporary design stores on his way to work, he looks like a living relic from a bygone era: the 1980s.