Tonight-Only Hotel App Arena Heats Up as One Spanish Rival Acquires Another
Photo Credit: Photo illustration of Hot Hotels app for iOS. PlaceIt by Breezi
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The tonight-only hotel space in Europe is hardly even beginning to take shape, and there will be plenty of room for several players. But it is getting interesting now.
Just weeks after HotelTonight picked up an additional $45 million in funding and Groupon acquired Madrid-based Blink, two other Spain-based tonight-only hotel apps, Hot Hotels of Malaga and ReallyLateBooking of Madrid, are joining forces.
Conor O'Connor, the CEO of Hot Hotels, tells Skift his company has acquired ReallyLateBooking, a move that strengthens Hot Hotels' position in Europe.
With 750,000 combined downloads between Hot and ReallyLateBooking on iOS, Android, and Blackberry devices, and 3,500 directly contracted hotels, plus other hotel inventory from third parties including Booking.com, O'Con
