External brands may come in early and try to grab market share, but find as the market matures, home-grown services make their own move and unseat the early-starters.
Nearby Deal provides should help advertisers in the long run. A well informed user may convert higher since they are prequalifying further before clicking to the site.
Buying Skyscanner would not only eliminate a rival but also allow Priceline to boost its advertising revenues, by adding 50 million monthly users to its bargaining table.
City and restaurant guides Time Out Group bought events platform YPlan for an initial consideration of GBP 1.6 million.
Booking.com has big ambitions for the region and wants to replicate the success it had in Europe.
Scotland-based Traveltek has picked up £5.3 million in funding from YFM Equity Partners.
Deem, a business travel technology company, is acquiring another San Francisco-area company: Olset, a machine learning and artificial intelligence startup that is focused on hotel recommendations.
The latest analysis from Amadeus uses a “scenario planning” methodology to paint a picture of what the future might hold for online travel agents.