Despite clouds of uncertainty looming over the economy and geopolitics, people still want to travel. To meet that demand, Mews, an Amsterdam-founded “unicorn” building an SaaS platform for hotel management, has raised a fresh $75 million.
The funding is coming at a crossroads in the travel industry.
From one direction, the positive signals: Analysts at Oxford Economics forecast that the industry will grow by 12% this year, working out to 1.75 billion “arrivals.” And that is equating to money getting invested into travel startups. TravelPerk in January raised $200 million at a $2.7 billion valuation; Hostaway raised $365 million in December 2024; and Tourlane in Germany raised $26 million from Sequoia in November 2024….






























