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Rafat Ali

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Uber Expands Into Travel Sector With Hotel Bookings, Following CEO Dara Khosrowshahi's Multi-Service Strategy

📅 Dara Khosrowshahi, since 2005 at Expedia and now at Uber, has focused on expanding platforms beyond their core services. At Expedia, he broadened the online travel business to include hotels, flights, cars, and packages over a decade. Now at Uber, he is extending from rides to Eats, groceries, and travel services, including hotels, leveraging high-frequency consumer habits to integrate multiple services into one platform.
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Dormakaba Acquires Alliants to Enhance Digital Guest Experience, Extending Reach Across 100,000+ Hotel Rooms Worldwide

💻 Swiss access giant dormakaba will acquire UK-based hotel software firm Alliants in 2026. Alliants, supporting over 100,000 hotel rooms, including 95,000 Premier Inn rooms, generated ~$14.1 million revenue in March 2025, a 7% decline. This acquisition, a strategic move for capability, not revenue, will enhance dormakaba's digital guest-experience offerings. Zendesk exits its 28% stake. The deal underscores the convergence of hotel tech categories around mobile keys.
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