HotelPlanner Picks up TravelTicker: Travel Startup Funding This Week
Photo Caption: HotelPlanner is single-handedly trying to rectify the online travel industry's gender imbalance. HotelPlanner
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The group booking company is on an acquisition spree. Plus, other startups raise funding for booking platforms for serviced apartments, event spaces, and branded budget hotels, while one Indian booking site gets a new investor owner.
Each week we round up travel startups that have recently received or announced funding. The total raised this week was more than $9.45 million.
>>HotelPlanner, a reservations platform for group hotel bookings founded in West Palm Beach, Florida, has acquired Travel-Ticker.com, a content site offering hotel deals and news that is based in United Arab Emirates. TravelTicker's traffic is being redirected to the acquirer's main site. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.
HotelPlanner.com chief executive Tim Hentschel says more acquisitions a
