Articles tagged “mergers and acquisitions”

Business Travel

What an Amex GBT-CWT Merger Means For Expedia and Booking.com

As in the planned American Express Global Business Travel Group merger with CWT, many marriages have in-law issues.

What an Amex GBT-CWT Merger Means For Expedia and Booking.com

Business Travel

Amex GBT Execs Explain Biz Travel Mega-Merger With CWT: Size, Costs and AI

Two of the largest corporate travel agencies want to join forces to create a single giant.

Amex GBT Execs Explain Biz Travel Mega-Merger With CWT: Size, Costs and AI

Business Travel

Amex GBT to Acquire CWT for $570 Million

The deal would absorb one of the industry's older corporate travel companies.

Amex GBT to Acquire CWT for $570 Million

Travel Technology

Accor Tech Subsidiary D-Edge Acquires LoungeUp to Enhance Guest Contact

This is the latest move in a trend by hotel tech companies to create more comprehensive platforms, meant to help clients fulfill more of their needs in fewer places.

Accor Tech Subsidiary D-Edge Acquires LoungeUp to Enhance Guest Contact

Ground Transport

Busbud Acquires Buson to Expand Digital Bus Ticketing in Latin America

Much of the world's population travels between cities via bus, and many of those operators track sales on spreadsheets. There's a big opportunity to digitize that industry.

Busbud Acquires Buson to Expand Digital Bus Ticketing in Latin America

Hotels

Hilton Buys Graduate Hotels Brand in $210 Million Deal

The hotel behemoth Hilton is acquiring the hip, localized Graduate Hotels brand for a cool $210 million. The boutique chain has rapidly expanded to 33 properties clustered around universities in the U.S. and U.K.

Hilton Buys Graduate Hotels Brand in $210 Million Deal

Travel Technology

Inside Amadeus’ Vision for Biometrics at Airports

With nearly all airlines saying they want to implement biometrics at their airport service centers, there's money in helping them make that happen.

Inside Amadeus’ Vision for Biometrics at Airports

Travel Technology

Amadeus Acquires Voxel for $123 Million to Expand Payments Business

Amadeus acquired another company earlier this year to expand its biometrics business. Now it's taken the same strategy to expand its payments business.

Amadeus Acquires Voxel for $123 Million to Expand Payments Business

Hotels

Choice Abandons Hostile Merger Bid for Wyndham Hotels

It's dead. Choice Hotels International’s hostile buyout offer of rival Wyndham Hotels & Resorts fizzled out because of an effective resistance by Wyndham's board and a lack of interest by Wyndham's shareholders.

Choice Abandons Hostile Merger Bid for Wyndham Hotels

Online Travel

Tripadvisor Sale: Apollo’s Interest and Possible Scenarios

Even Tripadvisor would agree that the sum of its parts is likely worth more the whole. That's what a potential buyer is likely thinking.

Tripadvisor Sale: Apollo’s Interest and Possible Scenarios