The work at TUI to integrate its latest acquisition has started, with the company claiming one of its primary motives for buying Isango was for its technology.
The tours and activities agency was snapped up for an undisclosed fee in late-February.
Speaking at the ITB expo in Berlin last week, Carlos Munoz, managing director of HotelBeds, one of the brands within the Accommodation and Destinations division in which Isango now sits, says the company made the acquisition as it was more efficient to buy a ready-made platform and service (“with good technology”), rather than build its own.
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