Booking Holdings Buys Activities Distribution Startup FareHarbor - Skift - 0 views
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Booking Holdings Buys Activities Distribution Startup FareHarbor – Skift
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rnobl005 on 22 May 18Module 3: Networking (Rebecca Noble) I came across this story a few weeks ago and thought it made sense to post about this week as it has to do with e-commerce. Booking Holdings' recently purchased a start up called FareHarbor in what is speculated to be a $300 million deal. FareHarbor is a reservation system designed for tour operators to distribute and sell their products online. Booking Holdings used to be known as the Priceline Group - the company now owns Booking.com, Priceline, KAYAK, OpenTable, and a few other tourism related brands. The idea is that customers buying a hotel room in Paris who know they want to take a tour of the Eiffel Tower can package those two purchases together. This deal is evidence that travel corporations are making a big push to be full service agencies and e-commerce plays a big part in the ability to do so. The article cites a few other similar deals, specifically Expedia.com partnering with a restaurant reservation platform called, Reserve (reserve.com/about). It also talks about Airbnb's own tour offerings, which they call Experiences. There are many other companies similar to FareHarbor that allow tour operators to sell their products online, many of which specialize in a specific geographic region. As such we may see large corporations like Booking Holdings buy these smaller companies so they have tours in popular destinations worldwide.
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Booking Holdings said Thursday that it will acquire U.S.-based, experiences booking-software provider FareHarbor.
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The FareHarbor acquisition will help provide content to expand Booking.com‘s upselling of consumers on tours after the consumers have already bought another product from the online travel giant.
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