Articles tagged “hotelbeds”

Hotels

Hopper Has a Hotel Chain Problem

Hopper is under pressure to get profitable, and an IPO may be in its long-range plans. Blowback against some of its fintech products and issues with hotel chains, aren't helping.

Hopper Has a Hotel Chain Problem

Online Travel

Exclusive: Hopper Terminates Booking.com Partnership in Preemptive Strike

Hopper is in a much deeper state of hurt than it is letting on. It has a trimmed down vision to focus on direct hotel relationships after two of the biggest online travel agencies in the world departed as partners.

Exclusive: Hopper Terminates Booking.com Partnership in Preemptive Strike

Online Travel

Hopper Contracts With Hotel Bedbanks After Losing Expedia Partnership

Few believed Hopper's statement in July that losing the Expedia partnership would have no impact. Now we know that Hopper began working on hotel deals to make itself whole and expand.

Hopper Contracts With Hotel Bedbanks After Losing Expedia Partnership

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Hotelbeds Touts New General Counsel’s IPO Experience

Hotelbeds, which reportedly hired bankers a couple of months ago to ready an initial public offering, has appointed a new general counsel, and the hotel wholesaler touted her experience in compliance and taking companies public. Source: Hotelbeds Sagrario Fernández, who now leads Hotelbeds' legal and compliance teams, "brings a wealth of experience in IPO processes…

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Hotelbeds Hires Banks to Prepare IPO

Buyout fund Cinven and Canadian pension fund CPPIB have hired Morgan Stanley and Evercore to prepare an initial public offering for Hotelbeds, Expansion newspaper reported on Friday citing unidentified market sources. Hotelbeds, a company based in Palma de Mallorca which sells hotels rooms to wholesale customers such as travel agencies and tour operators, is worth…

Travel Technology

Hotelbeds Looking Outside Itself for Tech Innovation

Hotelbeds is joining some other travel tech companies in looking outside for innovative ideas. It's not on the level of adding a venture capital arm as some major travel companies have done, but it follows a similar idea.

Hotelbeds Looking Outside Itself for Tech Innovation

Hotels

Luxury Hotels Turn to Unlikely Tech to Fight Bedbugs

No one wants to pay ultra-luxe prices and be forced to think about bugs when they’re on vacation. That’s exactly why Valpas hopes it's created a better bug trap to allow guests to have a pest-free stay.

Luxury Hotels Turn to Unlikely Tech to Fight Bedbugs
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Hotels

Hotelbeds Has Big Ambitions for Its Environmental, Social, and Governance Goals

Leading bedbank Hotelbeds is paving the way forward as more businesses respond to consumer and stakeholder demand to level up on social and environmental responsibilities.

Hotelbeds Has Big Ambitions for Its Environmental, Social, and Governance Goals
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Hotels

Executive Q&A: Hotelbeds Looks Toward Travel’s Frictionless Future

With digitization continuing to transform the travel and hospitality industry, SkiftX chats with Hotelbeds’ CEO Nicolas Huss on his vision for the future of frictionless travel.

Executive Q&A: Hotelbeds Looks Toward Travel’s Frictionless Future

Coronavirus

First and Only Leader of Hotelbeds Steps Aside for New CEO Charged With Amping Up Digitization

It's an occasion to pause and appreciate the accomplishment of Joan Vilà, who created Hotelbeds and led it to become the world's largest bedbank. But looking ahead, Hotelbeds must rev up its digital metabolism.

First and Only Leader of Hotelbeds Steps Aside for New CEO Charged With Amping Up Digitization