lastminute.com group N.V.

The company says the equity capital will enable it to “capture business opportunities… at significantly better conditions.” Read More

We've updated PhocusWire's visual history of online travel company revenues to include the most recent quarter. Read More

The business posted gains in revenue and EBITDA for full-year 2019 and claims a strong cash position to weather the COVID-19 storm. Read More

SiteMinder reveals the top sources of online bookings for hotels in 2019. Read More

WAYN (Where Are You Now?) was one of the first travel social networks. Co-founder and former co-CEO Jerome Touze joins hosts, David Litwak of Mozio and PhocusWire's Kevin May. Read More

During a pair of interviews at Phocuswright Europe, Brent Hoberman discussed his investment strategy, emerging technologies and much more. Read More

Lastminute.com Group launches Forward as an independent media business. Read More

This is a viewpoint by Graham Charlton, editor-in-chief for SaleCycle. Booking abandonment is a problem for travel websites, but there’s still plenty they can do to keep the problem to a minimum. I Read More

Booking.com has quietly started testing partnerships for other travel products, including package trips via a deal with Lastminute.com. Read More

Lastminute.com Group has secured a deal to buy the Comvel business from ProSiebenSat.1 Group, giving it a chance to grow its presence in Germany. Read More

The UK's Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has upheld complaints about "misleading prices" in adverts from Ryanair and lastminute.com, with the ruling on the latter potentially having implications Read More

A 20% overnight increase in searches would send the business analysts at most OTAs into mathematical meltdown, delving deep into the data to identify the patterns and create order from the chaos. O Read More

The seeds of the current face-off between hotels and intermediaries go back to the mid-1990s, when online travel agencies first arrived on the scene. The creation of Expedia, Travelocity, Orbitz, L Read More

Very few online travel companies can try and compete with the likes of Expedia Inc and the Priceline Group in ad-spending power - so other approaches are needed. Yet whilst the likes of Lastminute. Read More

Travel startups attempting to muscle in on consumer travel will face an uphill task if they want to challenge the status quo. That's the pessimistic view from the deputy CEO of Lastminute.com Group Read More