Skyscanner buys hotel search company
Travel search site Skyscanner has acquired Fogg, a Barcelona-based hotel search company.
Skyscanner will integrate Fogg’s hotel search into its site by the end of 2013 and will expand the hotel coverage.
Currently available in English and Spanish, the service will be expanded to power Skyscanner’s markets in 30 languages.
Skyscanner is also opening a new office in Barcelona, where all five of Fogg’s full-time staff will be based. It plans to expand the Barcelona office to recruit additional staff in engineering and other disciplines.
The move allows Skyscanner to expand into the hotel search business. It already has a flight search product and a car rental engine.
"Today we’ve taken a big step towards completing the picture in the space of hotel search," said CEO Gareth Williams.
The acquisition comes at a time when Skyscanner is also expanding into the Americas, including the US, Canada and Latin American markets.
The company has recently opened a Miami hub office.
Bev
Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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