Choice purchase of Arrival Hotel Reservations
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Booking agency Choice Locations has bought Staffordshire-based Arrival Hotel Reservations, in a deal effective 1 September 2010.
Arrival Hotel Reservations is a small agency with a turnover last year of around £1m, according to Choice director Andy Whitehouse. It specialises in offering a corporate hotel accommodation booking service, primarily for local companies.
Whitehouse tells CN that the deal is “a perfect fit” for Choice Locations. Arrival’s Hotel Reservation’s four staff will move to join the Choice team at the head office in Birmingham in a new, merged 16-strong operation.
“Arrival Hotel Reservations is well-established and it has provided an excellent hotel booking service in the past to a base-load of really good clients,” says Sally Ann Clift, acquisitions director at Choice Locations.
Choice Locations bought Loughborough-based conference agency Impact Conferences in 2007 and is an active member of The Hotel Booking Agents Association. Whitehouse tells CN the acquisition trail has not necessarily gone cold: “We are always looking for opportunities”.
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