Booking Holdings Tweaks Momondo’s Marketing Strategy

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Well, well, well ... if Booking Holdings is cutting brand marketing spending, what does it mean for the Momondo name going forward?
Booking Holdings has made a big deal out of how it wants to reduce its reliance on third-party advertising and instead boost direct bookings but it is going the opposite way with one of its newest acquisitions.
Booking bought European metasearch company Momondo Group in 2017 for $550 million and has wasted little time in making changes.
Out went the old management and in came a new leadership team, mainly made up of Kayak executives, and under them there has been a “slight adjustment to the business strategy,” according to accounts recently filed at the UK’s Companies House.
The main change is