Guesty is a leading property management platform in the hospitality industry for short-term rentals. On September 14th, it announced the acquisition of YieldPlanet, which is a hotel-focused revenue and distribution platform.
The aim of this acquisition is to expand the business avenues of both companies involved. This business deal would help it expand its services and the capacity of its traditional hotels. YieldPlanet would benefit from collaborating its market-friendly technology with the traditional hotel offering of Guesty.
This acquisition is said to ⁹be also be a rebranding opportunity for the software company as it has planned to introduce Guesty Distribution Hub which is customer friendly interactive platform which will work to connect it with Trip.com, Hopper, Google’s Hotel & Vacation Rental Search Products, Hopper. This platform’s essential function would be to help hotel managers to maintain an efficient report regarding organizations’ revenue, vacation rental offerings and others from just one site.
But this acquisition between Guesty and YieldPlanet is not the only business expansion venture of the software company in the hospitality industry. the software company very recently acquired a huge investment of $170 million. The prospective investors were existing investors Viola Growth and Flashpoint and new investors Apax Digital Funds, MSD Partners and Sixth Street Growth.
This huge capital investment is considered to be a reflection of the trust that investors have regarding the growth of the hospitality industry and especially investors view how valuable the travel and alternative accommodation sector is with an increase in its growth. It is also seen how valuable and trustworthy it is in the hospitality industry and its growing technical expertise and long-term strategy have been a key factor in making it the market leader in the hospitality industry in terms of management and software sector.
“With PMCs competing for diverse consumers and travel personas seeking every accommodation under the sun, we are thrilled to offer additional distribution for our Guesty users through direct integration of YieldPlanet and the formation of the Guesty Distribution Hub,” says Yair Holtzer, VP of Strategy at Guesty. “Guesty will offer direct integration with Hopper, Trip.com, Marriott Homes & Villas and Google’s suite of Travel Search products, joining our already impressive OTA integration with Airbnb, Booking.com, Vrbo, Expedia, Tripadvisor, Agoda, and misterb&b. We will also maintain additional integrations through our valued partnerships. The product enhancements solidify Guesty’s status as the leading flexible Property Management Platform.”
Guesty distribution hub as the name suggests is a holistic platform which enables customers to access as many hotels and Resorts as they wish, and providers of short-term rental distributions like Booking engine, Metasearch, OTA, and GDS with an additional feature of Financial Management tools to help customers regulate the process of the accommodation they are looking for.
They can filter location, prize, provider of hotels and short-term rental accommodations as per their need, on the same platform.
“Joining forces with Guesty marks an exciting new chapter for YieldPlanet, allowing us to strengthen and scale our revenue and channel management solutions,” says Claudio Limacher, CEO of YieldPlanet.
“We will continue to grow YieldPlanet and will now offer direct distribution from within Guesty’s platform, offering their clients exciting new opportunities to grow and expand their businesses.”
“YieldPlanet’s technology, expertise, R&D team, and hotel-focus were a natural fit to join the Guesty family and continue our long-term goal to become the one-stop shop for the hospitality and short-term rental ecosystem,” says Amiad Soto, “YieldPlanet’s technology within the Guesty platform, offers best-in-class revenue management, along with its price optimizer product for hotels. Our customers now have access to the widest distribution options on the market from one single dashboard.”
Guesty is a software that focuses on the management of property by property managers for short-term property and rental distribution of accommodations. It was founded in 2013 to rent properties on Airbnb and then to provide property owners services for task management and communications.
It has 14 offices which serve customers all around the world with guest communication, cleaning management, operational tasks, centralized reservations and many more services on all the major accommodation booking sites like Airbnb, TripAdvisor, booking.com etc. This helps property managers to focus on growing their business and catering to the needs of guests.
