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Hotelplanner.com acquires TravelMole, expanding global reach and content offerings
Hotelplanner.com, a leading online group hotel booking solutions company, announced it has acquired travel industry news and intelligence platform TravelMole.
This strategic acquisition aims to strengthen Hotelplanner.com’s leading position in the hospitality industry by both expanding its reach, and diversifying its content offerings.
Furthermore, it will ensure it continues to provide valuable insights to both hoteliers and travellers.
“We are thrilled to welcome TravelMole into the Hotelplanner.com family,” said Tim Hentschel, CEO of Hotelplanner.com.
“TravelMole’s deep expertise in travel industry news, analysis, features and data aligns perfectly with our mission to connect hoteliers with the travel trade worldwide. This acquisition will enable us to offer our partners and customers even more comprehensive solutions.”
Charles Kao of TravelMole, added: “We are excited to join forces with Hotelplanner.com, a company that shares our commitment to innovation and excellence in the travel industry.”
“Together, we will be able to provide our customers with even more valuable content, insights, and tools to succeed in today’s competitive marketplace.”
Jean-Francois Pieri, , CEO of Cleverdis. said the addition of Travelmole will further enable Cleverdis, one of the largest publishers for global trade shows, to engage more meaningfully with the travel industry.
“The potential synergies between Hotelplanner’s publishing brands will drive mutual growth.”
The acquisition will bring together Hotelplanner.com’s extensive network of hoteliers, 300,000 group travel planners and travellers with TravelMole’s industry news, features, analysis, and data.
This combination will enable Hotelplanner.com to offer a more comprehensive suite of products and services, including:
* Enhanced content offerings: Hotelplanner.com and its hotel partners’ extensive knowledge and content related to group hotel bookings will be integrated into the TravelMole platform, to help travel agents better sell group travel.
* Expanded global reach: TravelMole’s global network of industry contacts will help Hotelplanner.com to reach a wider range of travel providers and destination marketing organizations (DMO) worldwide.
* Synergies in technology and operations: Hotelplanner.com and Travelmole will leverage complementary strengths in technology and operations to create a more efficient and effective organization.
The acquisition of TravelMole represents a major milestone for both companies and marks a major step forward in Hotelplanner.com’s strategy to become a leading global provider of online group hotel booking solutions.
About Hotelplanner.com
HotelPlanner is a leading travel technology company and hotel booking platform that combines proprietary artificial intelligence and a 24/7 global gig-based reservations and customer service network. Founded in 2003, HotelPlanner has partnerships with online travel agencies, global hotel chains, independent hotels, online wedding providers, ancillary lodging providers and more.
HotelPlanner’s brand portfolio includes flagship site, HotelPlanner.com; meetings & events-focused sites, Meetings.com; EventConnect.com; and VenueExplorer.com; Lucid Travel, which focuses on sports team travel; Eventsquid, which focuses on corporate and association event registration; and Cleverdis, the trade show media brand.
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TravelMole Editorial Team
Editor for TravelMole North America and Asia pacific regions. Ray is a highly experienced (15+ years) skilled journalist and editor predominantly in travel, hospitality and lifestyle working with a huge number of major market-leading brands. He has also cover in-depth news, interviews and features in general business, finance, tech and geopolitical issues for a select few major news outlets and publishers.
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