Cendyn Buys Guestfolio to Expand Its Hotel Digital Marketing Solutions


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As with Cendyn and Guestfolio, further consolidation is likely in the hotel marketing and loyalty sector as the number of competitors proliferate and the opportunities grow.
Two-decade old Cendyn took on a minority investment from a private equity firm earlier this year to spearhead growth and today the hotel- and meetings-marketing company announced an acquisition of Guestfolio to round out Cendyn's offerings for boutique hotels. Cendyn, privately held and based in Boca Raton, Florida, offers cloud-based software solutions for hotels and the meetings industry, with clients including AMResorts, Loews Hotels, The Standard hotels, Rosewood Hotels, and Fontainebleau Miami Beach. The acquisition of Whistler, British Columbia-headqua