Articles tagged “hotelbeds”

Online Travel

Exclusive: Hopper Terminates Booking.com Partnership in Preemptive Strike

Hopper is in a much deeper state of hurt than it is letting on. It has a trimmed down vision to focus on direct hotel relationships after two of the biggest online travel agencies in the world departed as partners.

Dennis Schaal | 3 months ago

Exclusive: Hopper Terminates Booking.com Partnership in Preemptive Strike

Online Travel

Hopper Contracts With Hotel Bedbanks After Losing Expedia Partnership

Few believed Hopper's statement in July that losing the Expedia partnership would have no impact. Now we know that Hopper began working on hotel deals to make itself whole and expand.

Dennis Schaal | 3 months ago

Hopper Contracts With Hotel Bedbanks After Losing Expedia Partnership

News Blog

Hotelbeds Touts New General Counsel’s IPO Experience

Hotelbeds, which reportedly hired bankers a couple of months ago to ready an initial public offering, has appointed a new general counsel, and the hotel wholesaler touted her experience in compliance and taking companies public. Source: Hotelbeds Sagrario Fernández, who now leads Hotelbeds' legal and compliance teams, "brings a wealth of experience in IPO processes…

Dennis Schaal | 5 months ago

News Blog

Hotelbeds Hires Banks to Prepare IPO

Buyout fund Cinven and Canadian pension fund CPPIB have hired Morgan Stanley and Evercore to prepare an initial public offering for Hotelbeds, Expansion newspaper reported on Friday citing unidentified market sources. Hotelbeds, a company based in Palma de Mallorca which sells hotels rooms to wholesale customers such as travel agencies and tour operators, is worth…

Jason Clampet | 6 months ago

Travel Technology

Hotelbeds Looking Outside Itself for Tech Innovation

Hotelbeds is joining some other travel tech companies in looking outside for innovative ideas. It's not on the level of adding a venture capital arm as some major travel companies have done, but it follows a similar idea.

Justin Dawes | 11 months ago

Hotelbeds Looking Outside Itself for Tech Innovation

Hotels

Luxury Hotels Turn to Unlikely Tech to Fight Bedbugs

No one wants to pay ultra-luxe prices and be forced to think about bugs when they’re on vacation. That’s exactly why Valpas hopes it's created a better bug trap to allow guests to have a pest-free stay.

Mary Ann Ha | 2 years ago

Luxury Hotels Turn to Unlikely Tech to Fight Bedbugs
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Hotels

Hotelbeds Has Big Ambitions for Its Environmental, Social, and Governance Goals

Leading bedbank Hotelbeds is paving the way forward as more businesses respond to consumer and stakeholder demand to level up on social and environmental responsibilities.

Hotelbeds + Skift | 2 years ago

Hotelbeds Has Big Ambitions for Its Environmental, Social, and Governance Goals
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Hotels

Executive Q&A: Hotelbeds Looks Toward Travel’s Frictionless Future

With digitization continuing to transform the travel and hospitality industry, SkiftX chats with Hotelbeds’ CEO Nicolas Huss on his vision for the future of frictionless travel.

Hotelbeds + Skift | 2 years ago

Executive Q&A: Hotelbeds Looks Toward Travel’s Frictionless Future

Coronavirus

First and Only Leader of Hotelbeds Steps Aside for New CEO Charged With Amping Up Digitization

It's an occasion to pause and appreciate the accomplishment of Joan Vilà, who created Hotelbeds and led it to become the world's largest bedbank. But looking ahead, Hotelbeds must rev up its digital metabolism.

Sean O'Neill, Skift | 3 years ago

First and Only Leader of Hotelbeds Steps Aside for New CEO Charged With Amping Up Digitization

Business Travel

Remote Work Policies Offer New Opportunities for Corporate Housing

Relocating employees for work could be big business after the pandemic, if travel companies can handle the extra pressure governments and big organizations place on them.

Matthew Parsons, Skift | 3 years ago

Remote Work Policies Offer New Opportunities for Corporate Housing