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Business Travel
As in the planned American Express Global Business Travel Group merger with CWT, many marriages have in-law issues.
Dennis Schaal | 11 hours ago
Two of the largest corporate travel agencies want to join forces to create a single giant.
Justin Dawes | 3 days ago
The deal would absorb one of the industry's older corporate travel companies.
Travel Technology
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.
Justin Dawes | 7 days ago
Ground Transport
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.
Justin Dawes | 1 week ago
Hotels
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.
Sean O'Neill | 2 weeks ago
With nearly all airlines saying they want to implement biometrics at their airport service centers, there's money in helping them make that happen.
Justin Dawes | 2 weeks ago
Amadeus acquired another company earlier this year to expand its biometrics business. Now it's taken the same strategy to expand its payments business.
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.
Online Travel
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.
Dennis Schaal | 3 weeks ago