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Booking Holdings to Buy Flights Partner ETraveli Group for $1.8 Billion: Booking Holdings is on a pre-Christmas buying spree after announcing two pending acquisitions, ETraveli Group and Getaroom, within two weeks. Both are mostly back-of-the-house acquisitions that will bolster Booking’s flight and hotels business.
Marriott Vacations CEO Weighs in on the Timeshare Rollup During the Recovery: Providing younger travelers with more flexibility makes the timeshare sector more appealing to millennials with disposable income. And that makes properties in the sector more attractive for M&A.
Laurence Tosi’s WestCap Leads $80 Million Funding for Activities Booking Site Peek: Peek survived the pandemic when so many tours and activities’ operators went into hibernation or worse, and now it has another $80 million in the bank for expansion. With business-to-business software as hot as it is, that’s not a bad place to be.
Skiplagged Plays Whac-A-Mole With Southwest Flights: As the saying goes, you can run but you can’t hide. Skiplagged may be marketing Southwest flights for now and helping flyers book them, but this practice doesn’t have a bright future.
This Hotel CEO Sees a Niche for Cool Brands in Smaller Cities: Folks in small cities still have money to spend on trendy bars and restaurants. There’s a new playbook for high-end, lifestyle hotels that doesn’t require a massive, global city to usher in success.
Amex GBT Tests New Model With Bizzabo for Virtual Meeting Bookings: Rather than buy technology, the agency’s meeting division has struck a new type of commercial deal with the fast-growing meeting software firm Bizzabo to tap into virtual meetings. A big bet that those meetings will be here to stay.
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