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"Editor\u2019s note:\u00A0This article by\u00A0Michelle Kuepper\u00A0originally appeared on\u00A0VentureVillage, the Berlin-based online magazine for digital innovation in Europe.\r\n\r\nGidsy, the Berlin-based platform that hosts tours and activities in cities, is being taken over by tour-booking platform\u00A0GetYourGuide.\r\n\r\nThe Gidsy team will be integrated into GetYourGuide, with personnel already working from their new owners\u2019 Berlin office. According to the\u00A0WSJ, Edial Dekker, founder of Gidsy, will be the head of mobile development for GetYourGuide, and his brother and co-founder Floris will be the head of design.\r\n\r\n\u201CWe are moving the entire team over,\u201D Edial Dekker told WSJ. \u201CGidsy will no longer exist\u201D.\r\n\r\nGidsy is a peer-to-peer marketplace for activities, events and courses, which overlaps in many ways with GetYourGuide, a booking platform that hosts tours, expeditions and activities. Both have bases in Berlin, though GetYourGuide has been on a rapid expansion path since its launch in 2010, with other offices in Las Vegas and Zurich and a team of over 50 \u2013 it claims to be the largest online platform for tours and activities in the world.\r\n\r\nThe takeover has the potential to be a nice fit, with Gidsy bringing a personal touch that GetYourGuide, which offers more professionally organised tours, is currently lacking. A statement on the Gidsy website said: \u201CWe\u2019ve known the awesome GetYourGuide team for some time now, and share a common vision, which is why we couldn\u2019t be happier with this next big step.\u201D Although there\u2019s no news currently on how \u2013 or indeed if \u2013 the product will be integrated into GetYourGuide.\r\n\r\nDekker told VentureVillage that \u201Csomething we\u2019ll be focusing on is mobile, social and product, and you\u2019ll see that soon enough. Stay tuned\u2026\u201D\r\n\r\nEarlier this year, GetYourGuide received\u00A0a $14m Series A round\u00A0from Spark Capital and Highland Capital Partners Europe."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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