Booking.com's Work for Marriott is a Sneak Peak Into the Future
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Booking.com knows a few things about website creation and it plans on sharing these skills with hotels and becoming a key tech provider to them in the near future. The distribution business would still be primary, but Booking.com officials are bullish about its prospects in the B2B sector.
The Priceline Group acquired Buuteeq and Hotel Ninjas earlier this year as the company seeks to become a tech provider for hotels, and its little-noticed work for the websites of Marriott International's brands is a harbinger of what's going to happen next.
Although it hasn't received much publicity, a spokesperson for Booking.com, a Priceline Group subsidiary, confirms that it powers websites for "the entire Marriott global list of properties in Italian, Russian, Arabic and Brazilian Portuguese languages."
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