Skift Take
If Airbnb hasn't already devoted resources anew to HotelTonight and expanding its hotel business, the short-term rental giant assuredly will once it goes public. After all, in addition to Google, Airbnb sees online travel agencies, with their wide breadth of accommodations' offerings, as its most significant set of competitors.
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Online Travel This Week
Airbnb made nearly two dozen acquisitions since its founding 13 years ago, and the largest and most important was HotelTonight for $441.4 million in cash and stock in 2019.
Since 2017 through the first nine months of 2020, Airbnb bought about 10 start