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Accommodation & Destinations

Our Accommodation & Destinations Sector is a global provider of travel services.

Its businesses provide hotel accommodation, transfers, excursions and tours, meetings and events and cruise handling services to tour operators, travel agents, corporate clients and customers worldwide. Its top selling brands include Hotelbeds, LateRooms, Bedsonline, AsiaRooms and Intercruises. In 2012 the A&D Sector had total transaction volumes of £2.8 billion.

This sector is divided into four business lines – accommodation wholesaler, online accommodation travel agents, destination services and cruise handling.

Accommodation wholesaler

An online intermediary for over 45,000 hotels worldwide providing accommodation through the brands, Hotelbeds, Bedsonline and Hotelopia.

Online accommodation travel agents

Providing good value hotel rooms direct to customers worldwide through the popular, online brands, LateRooms.com and AsiaRooms.com

Destination services

Providing ‘in destination’ services to leisure and business travellers including transfers, excursions and tours.

Cruise handling

Providing ‘turnaround’ services, port agency services and excursions for the leading cruise lines worldwide through the Intercruises brand.

Sector highlights:

  • We are a truly global business with over 9,000 employees

  • We sell products and services in more than 150 countries

  • We are experts in technology and online businesses

  • Our online accommodation brands sell over 23 million roomnights per year

  • Our brands have market-leading positions:

    • LateRooms.com is one of the UK´s leading online accommodation sites

    • Hotelbeds is a global accommodation provider for business with a database of 45,000 hotels

    • Intercruises is an international cruise handling business which handles over 9,000 cruise ship calls each year

  • We have a portfolio of destination services businesses in 48 countries

  • We are expanding our business presence in emerging economies particularly South America and Asia

Our international workforce pride themselves in making travel experiences special for customers from the point of sale to servicing them in destinations. Our people sit behind the travel providers such as airlines, operators and agents supplying all the essentials that make customers' holidays a special experience in destinations.

Download the Accommodation & Destinations fact sheet (146KB PDF)