mergers and acquisitions Archives

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.

Justin Dawes | 1 month ago

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.

Justin Dawes | 2 months ago

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.

Sean O'Neill | 2 months ago

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.

Justin Dawes | 2 months ago

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.

Justin Dawes | 2 months ago

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.

Sean O'Neill | 2 months ago

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 | 2 months ago

Hotels

Choice-Wyndham Merger Is a 50/50 Bet: What the Skift Travel 200 Reveals

The market has become less skeptical of Choice's hostile takeover bid for Wyndham, despite many roadblocks. The Skift Travel 200 sheds light on the thinking behind this offer.

Sean O'Neill | 2 months ago