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GetYourGuide is one of the five awardees which have been priced
on 29th June 2011 by the W.A. de Vigier Foundation from
Solothurn.

The prize which is endowed by 100.000 SFr. of the W.A. de Vigier Foundation was awarded the first time in 1989 and is the highest endowed and renowned prize for young entrepreneurs in Switzerland. William A. de Vigier wants to help young entrepreneurs with what was missing at the time of his own company foundation and what misses often to good ideas: the necessary seed capital. Therefore, the target of the W.A. de Vigier Foundation is active business development through financial support of young people with creative business plans as for example GetYourGuide.

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Two month in to our adventure “Berlin Office” we are really, really happy with how things have developed here for us. First and foremost we now have a dedicated customer support team working only on providing top notch German and English support in writing and on the phone.

That frees a lot of resources which we can now put to work on the supplier side and into growing our office: we currently have 15 people working in our office and are still growing in the name of a better end user experience: better customer support, more products, improved response time etc. etc..

But let me talk about how we think a modern workplace should look like and what it looks like here in Berlin for our employees: Continue reading

Dear users, fans and supporters of GetYourGuide,

while our competition Tour de Suisse is still not even half finished, we have seen many new people coming to our site and sharing tours. Although this might sound not very spectacular to you, it is certainly special to us, as it means that the framework that we have been created during many hours of hard work withing the past couple of months is used in a creative manner. We believe that there is no better thing for creative people than to step aside the project you are working on for a brief second and see how others engage with it. Continue reading