Articles tagged “m&a”

Travel Technology

Sabre Hospitality Is For Sale … Again

If Sabre sells its hospitality unit this time around, it can use some of the proceeds to pay off debt, and then refocus on its core airline and travel agency business.

Dennis Schaal | 13 hours ago

Sabre Hospitality Is For Sale … Again

Experiences

5 Key Trends in Travel Experiences

Spending on tours and activities may hit $300 billion by 2025. Expect to see more consolidation pressures, growth in demographic targeting, adoption of AI, and attempts to react to climate change.

Jesse Chase-Lubitz | 2 weeks ago

5 Key Trends in Travel Experiences

Online Travel

Trivago Acquires 30% Stake in Hotel Rate Aggregator Holisto for $10 Million

Could Trivago be looking to supplement its traditional metasearch revenue with that generated by a hotel booking site? Or is it just interested in Holisto's tech?

Dennis Schaal | 2 months ago

Trivago Acquires 30% Stake in Hotel Rate Aggregator Holisto for $10 Million

Online Travel

Tripadvisor’s Potential Sale: Apollo Still a Suitor and a Financing Deadline

There will be a lot of moving pieces over the next few months if indeed a sale of Tripadvisor gets done.

Dennis Schaal | 5 months ago

Tripadvisor’s Potential Sale: Apollo Still a Suitor and a Financing Deadline

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.

Dennis Schaal | 6 months ago

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

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.

Dennis Schaal | 7 months ago

Tripadvisor Sale: Apollo’s Interest and Possible Scenarios

Online Travel

Latin America’s Despegar Opens Travel Agencies to Get Travelers to Book Online

If you work for an online travel agency and suggested it open brick-and-mortar stores to bring customers online, you would get very quizzical looks, at the least. Let's see if it works in Argentina and Brazil for Despegar/Decolar.

Dennis Schaal | 7 months ago

Latin America’s Despegar Opens Travel Agencies to Get Travelers to Book Online

Online Travel

Tripadvisor Expects First Profits for Viator and TheFork As Potential Sale Looms

A potential buyer could decide to break up Tripadvisor's parts, including Viator, TheFork, and metasearch, under the theory that the parts are worth more than the whole.

Dennis Schaal | 7 months ago

Tripadvisor Expects First Profits for Viator and TheFork As Potential Sale Looms

Business Travel

Expedia Recorded $326 Million in Losses on Its Stake in Amex Global Business Travel Group

Expedia Group's equity stake in American Express Global Business Travel has taken a shellacking to date, but other aspects of the deal have long-term benefits.

Dennis Schaal | 7 months ago

Expedia Recorded $326 Million in Losses on Its Stake in Amex Global Business Travel Group

Short-Term Rentals

The Quiet Dealmakers of Short-Term Rentals

M&A in short-term rentals isn't new, but players today prefer to remain quiet about the deals and their value.

Srividya Kalyanaraman | 8 months ago

The Quiet Dealmakers of Short-Term Rentals