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Business Travel
As in the planned American Express Global Business Travel Group merger with CWT, many marriages have in-law issues.
Dennis Schaal | 1 day ago
Two of the largest corporate travel agencies want to join forces to create a single giant.
Justin Dawes | 4 days ago
The deal would absorb one of the industry's older corporate travel companies.
Travel Technology
This is the latest move in a trend by hotel tech companies to create more comprehensive platforms, meant to help clients fulfill more of their needs in fewer places.
Justin Dawes | 1 week ago
Ground Transport
Much of the world's population travels between cities via bus, and many of those operators track sales on spreadsheets. There's a big opportunity to digitize that industry.
Hotels
The hotel behemoth Hilton is acquiring the hip, localized Graduate Hotels brand for a cool $210 million. The boutique chain has rapidly expanded to 33 properties clustered around universities in the U.S. and U.K.
Sean O'Neill | 2 weeks ago
With nearly all airlines saying they want to implement biometrics at their airport service centers, there's money in helping them make that happen.
Justin Dawes | 2 weeks ago
Amadeus acquired another company earlier this year to expand its biometrics business. Now it's taken the same strategy to expand its payments business.
Justin Dawes | 3 weeks ago
It's dead. Choice Hotels International’s hostile buyout offer of rival Wyndham Hotels & Resorts fizzled out because of an effective resistance by Wyndham's board and a lack of interest by Wyndham's shareholders.
Sean O'Neill | 3 weeks ago
Online Travel
Even Tripadvisor would agree that the sum of its parts is likely worth more the whole. That's what a potential buyer is likely thinking.
Dennis Schaal | 3 weeks ago