Handy – a startup that provided smartphones for in-room hotel guests – represented the biggest startup failure in the travel and tourism sector worldwide as of September 2021. The Hong Kong-based company, which had raised over *** million U.S. dollars in funding – announced the end of its operations in the summer of 2019.
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