Hopper Enters Strategic Partnerships with Hotelbeds and WebBeds, Supercharging its Global Hotel Supply Network

Hopper, a global travel platform, announces two new strategic partnerships with Hotelbeds and WebBeds to bolster its hotel supply network. 

Now, Hopper users and its partners will have access to Hotelbeds’ and WebBeds’ extensive hotel portfolios. With this 3-way alignment, the Hopper platform will provide all channels with access to more than 700,000 hotel properties for its customers – underpinning Hopper’s efforts to build its global hotel supply network.

Hotelbeds is a global leader in the TravelTech space, connecting and empowering businesses by directly contracting hotel inventory and expanding the travel ecosystem. Hotelbeds offers a robust hotel inventory with over 300,000 curated hotel properties in 195 destination countries around the world.

WebBeds is a global marketplace for the travel trade, providing powerful distribution solutions that make selling and buying hotel services easier. WebBeds’ marketplace offers the Hopper platform access to over 430,000 hotel properties around the world. 

Hopper is a travel agency, fintech provider, and e-commerce platform, powering the Hopper app and partners’ direct channels. The Hopper app has over 100 million downloads and is the 3rd largest online travel agency in the U.S. The app is predominantly used by Gen Z and millennials, with 70% of Hopper customers made up of travelers under the age of 35. This partnership will also extend to Hopper’s existing B2B partners.

“We’re proud to partner with these two global, hotel contracting powerhouses,” said Dakota Smith, President and Co-Founder of Hopper. “Ensuring that travelers have transparency and optionality has always been at the core of Hopper’s offerings. Partnering with Hotelbeds and WebBeds will allow us to supercharge our efforts in building a best-in-class global hotel supply network.”

About Hopper

Hopper is a global travel platform which powers Hopper’s mobile app and B2B partners' direct channels. Hopper uses data to bring transparency, optionality and cost-savings to travelers globally. The company has also developed several unique fintech solutions that address everything from pricing volatility to trip disruptions. The Hopper platform serves hundreds of millions of travelers and continues to capture market share around the world. Through its B2B business, Hopper supercharges its partners’ direct channels with its travel agency, fintech, and e-commerce offerings. To find out more about Hopper, visit Hopper.com.

About Hotelbeds

Hotelbeds are global leaders in the TravelTech space, connecting and empowering businesses by facilitating bridges in the ever-changing and expanding travel ecosystem. Our cloud-based technology platforms offer fast and simple access to a global network of travel products, from accommodation to ancillaries and payments, while rich data and intelligence helps to generate demand. By operating exclusively in the B2B arena, we are uniquely placed to drive growth for our partners without competing for the end customer. Our teams of 3000+ experts on the ground provide local expertise and support to boost trading even further, even in the most hard-to-reach spaces. Our unique blend of technology, data and passionate people serves as a catalyst for B2B travel players aiming to unlock their full potential.

About WebBeds

Launched in 2013, WebBeds is a global marketplace for the travel trade, providing powerful distribution solutions that make selling and buying travel products easier. It sources accommodation and destination services from travel suppliers, aggregates and merchandises that content in the WebBeds platform, then distributes it to its global network of travel trade buyers, who sell to the traveling public.

Hotels and other suppliers - global and regional hotel chains, independent hotels, apartments, resorts, attractions, transfer and sightseeing companies and more - can sell their products to a global network of online and offline travel buyers through robust solutions that provide greater inventory control to simplify distribution, and leverage WebBeds enhanced analytics to inform inventory optimisation choices – saving costs and increasing revenue.

Travel buyers - online travel agencies, retail travel agents, corporate travel managers, tour operators, wholesalers, tourism boards, super apps, DMC’s, group providers, airlines and more - can integrate the hundreds of thousands of hotels and ground services in the WebBeds marketplace through simple and seamless API connectivity, or they can search, shop and book online through one of WebBeds trade only booking sites.

WebBeds operates globally through four geographic regions – Europe, Asia Pacific, MEA (Middle East and Africa) and Americas - with over 1,500 travel professionals working in 120 cities across 50 countries worldwide. WebBeds also operates specialist brands JacTravel DMC and UHl. JacTravel DMC provides tailormade travel arrangements for offline FIT and groups traveling to the UK, Ireland and key mainland European destinations to the international travel trade. UHI is a genuine pioneer, providing online pilgrimage travel services to travel agencies worldwide. 

Find out more about the WebBeds business at www.webbeds.com 

WebBeds is a travel brand of Webjet Limited (ASX: WEB).

About Webjet Limited

Webjet Limited, an ASX 200 listed company (ASX: WEB), is a global travel business that enables travel the world over through our market leading travel brands supported by our travel technology businesses.

Our digital travel brands, spanning both wholesale and retail markets, include; WebBeds - a global marketplace for the travel trade, providing powerful distribution solutions that make selling and buying travel easier, Webjet - the market leading Online Travel Agency in Australia and New Zealand, and GoSee - a global motorhome and car rental ecommerce site.

Our travel business are supported by smart technology we build and invest in that differentiates our offerings and make booking and transacting travel better, including Trip Ninja - providing complex travel itinerary automation technology to digital travel businesses globally and investments in ROOMDEX and LockTrip.

Find out more about Webjet Limited at: www.webjetlimited.com 

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