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Articles tagged “m&a”

Mergers and Acquisitions

Expedia Is Growing Alternative Accommodations Faster But Booking Isn’t Slowing Down

Booking sites are offering more types of travel products and services on their platforms. Of these verticals, alternative accommodations are a highly contested space where Booking and Airbnb lead for now.

Seth Borko, Skift Research | 6 years ago

Expedia Is Growing Alternative Accommodations Faster But Booking Isn’t Slowing Down

Mergers and Acquisitions

Booking Holdings Bought HotelsCombined for Only $140 Million

Don't you just love those proverbial tuck-in acquisitions? Booking Holdings didn't break the bank for either HotelsCombined ($140 million) or FareHarbor ($250 million). Sometimes making smaller bets is a much smarter strategy than gargantuan deals, but only time will tell.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 6 years ago

Booking Holdings Bought HotelsCombined for Only $140 Million

Mergers and Acquisitions

Oral History: Booking.com Catapulted Priceline From an Also-Ran to First

The acquisitions of Active Hotels and Bookings B.V., which led to the creation of Booking.com, transformed parent company Priceline.com, and online travel history. Take a look at Priceline's fourth quarter of 2005 financial results, and you'll be able to see the journey in process.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 6 years ago

Oral History: Booking.com Catapulted Priceline From an Also-Ran to First

Mergers and Acquisitions

6 Takeaways From The Oral History of Travel’s Greatest Acquisition Booking.com

The stars were seemingly aligned when Booking.com made its move. The big U.S. players were too comfortable with their huge margins from the merchant model; Booking.com focused on independent hotels; and search engine marketing was on the rise. Still, it was the entrepreneurs and dealmakers who made it all happen.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 6 years ago

6 Takeaways From The Oral History of Travel’s Greatest Acquisition Booking.com

Mergers and Acquisitions

Booking Holdings Buys HotelsCombined as Kayak Expands Into Asia Pacific

Booking.com is Booking Holdings' favored child, but with the addition of HotelsCombined, it is apparent that the parent company still sees plenty of opportunity for its Kayak unit in metasearch worldwide. This deal will help Kayak expand in Asia Pacific, and will give HotelsCombined additional resources as well.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 6 years ago

Booking Holdings Buys HotelsCombined as Kayak Expands Into Asia Pacific

Hotels

Accor Pushes Further Into Luxury With $567 Million Mövenpick Deal

Where there is smoke there is fire and Sebastien Bazin's comments at Skift Forum Europe last week hinted at an imminent deal.

Patrick Whyte, Skift | 6 years ago

Accor Pushes Further Into Luxury With $567 Million Mövenpick Deal

Mergers and Acquisitions

Travel Megatrends 2018: Mergers and Acquisitions Focus on Strategic Innovation

The smartest travel companies are beginning to buy startups that may not be central to their main businesses or help them consolidate market share, but could boost the innovation metabolism of their motherships.

Sean O'Neill , Skift | 6 years ago

Travel Megatrends 2018: Mergers and Acquisitions Focus on Strategic Innovation

Hotels

HNA Group Enlists Bankers to Consider Sale of Its NH Hotels Stake

HNA Group's decision to at least consider selling its stake in NH Hotels shouldn't come as a surprise. It will be interesting to see whether one of the big hotel companies emerges as a potential buyer.

Patrick Whyte, Skift | 6 years ago

HNA Group Enlists Bankers to Consider Sale of Its NH Hotels Stake

Hotels

Barceló Looks to Create Spanish Hotel Giant With Bid for Rival NH

Combining NH Hotels with another company makes plenty of sense. It would give it added scale and might also help put an end to its shareholder infighting. Of course this is only the opening move in what is likely to be a time-consuming process and given NH's recent history we're sure that it will be anything but straightforward.

Patrick Whyte, Skift | 6 years ago

Barceló Looks to Create Spanish Hotel Giant With Bid for Rival NH

Mergers and Acquisitions

UK Cruise Agency Buys German Rival to Create ‘European Leader’

Cruise.co's mix of reviews and vacations has helped fuel its rise. Its private equity owners obviously want it to get even bigger and to do so it needs to buy up the competition.

Patrick Whyte, Skift | 7 years ago

UK Cruise Agency Buys German Rival to Create ‘European Leader’