Skift Take
It's hard to believe that Travel Ticker was merely a victim of Hotwire's international expansion plans. If the opaque travel market, where Hotwire plays, is getting very crowded, the deals newsletter space is getting even more so.
Hotwire boasted last year that its Travel Ticker newsletter had 11 million subscribers and the Travel Ticker website attracted 3 million monthly unique visitors, but it plans on shutting down both operations October 1, Skift has learned.
With the proliferation of other deals newsletters such as those from Travelzoo and Shermans Travel, and voucher and flash sales operations from the likes of Groupon, LivingSocial, Jetsetter and SniqueAway, perhaps Travel Ticker became the victim of deal fatigue or saturation.
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