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Kayak buys SideStep, some thoughts !

Dossier archivé Travel 2.0 le décembre 21, 2007

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Kayak travel meta-search has acquired rival SideStep for $200 million, say Techrunch in this post.

So, we have now a big market leadership in the travel meta-search space.

This players are american, but other actors are interesting to see :

Sprice (with a international focus, Europe and Asia at this time)
DoHop (with great technology for Low Cost airfare in Europe)
Bezurk (for asian market)

Adam Healey, Co-founder & CEO VibeAgent Inc., write some thoughts about this buying in the VibeAgent blog.

"I think this deal is further market validation of the meta-search model that VibeAgent utilizes and which consumers and travel suppliers alike increasingly prefer (see PhoCusWright's latest research showing OTA hotel market share declining to 40% of total online bookings in '06 at the expense of travel supplier sites selling direct)."

Read his post here.



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