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| area_served = Worldwide | key_people = | services = | homepage = }} Traveling Spoon is a San Francisco, California-based food tourism startup company that connects travelers with local hosts who prepare homemade local cuisine in their homes. Travelers can also purchase cooking classes and visit marketplaces for cooking ingredients with their hosts. The company offers home dining packages in 38 cities in 15 countries located throughout South and Southeast Asia and Japan. Traveling Spoon was founded by Stephanie Lawrence and Aashi Vel and its beta site launched in July 2013. The bootstrapped company is a graduate of the Venture Lab Program at the University of California, Berkeley's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Venture Lab Awards Prize Money to Traveling Spoon )〕 The Venture Lab program also awarded the company $12,000 in prize money.〔 ==History== Stephanie Lawrence and Aashi Vel founded Traveling Spoon shortly after they met in 2011 at the Haas School of Business, where they were students in the school's Master of Business Administration program.〔 The two connected over a similar desire to eat indigenous cuisine prepared by locals and learn about native cultures they encountered when traveling abroad.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=An Interview with Traveling Spoon co-founder, Aashi Vel )〕 Traveling Spoon started a pilot program in December 2011 and had its first customers in January 2012. The company launched its beta website in July 2013. In May 2014, Traveling Spoon raised funding from Erik Blachford, the former CEO of Expedia and The Chennai Angels.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Traveling Spoon, An Airbnb For Home-Cooked Dinners Globally, Launches With $870K In Funding )〕 In 2015, Traveling Spoon launched programs in the Philippines〔 and India, which includes 12 cities within the country.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Traveling Spoon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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