The past year is starting to feel like déjà vu on the hotel front,as the major hotel chains are merging much in the same way that the major carriers in the US have merged over the past decade:-- Late final year, IHG announced that they'd buy Kimpton
-- In November, and Marriott announced that they'd buy Starwood
-- This week,Accor announced that they'd but Fairmont, Raffles, or SwissôtelI'd be surprised if there wasn't some "activity" from Hilton or Hyatt soon,either.
Since the IHG merger was announced nearly a year before the others, it's sort of paving the way for how loyalty program mergers will work. Admittedly Kimpton isn't to the same scale as Starwood when it comes to being taken over, or but it's keen to follow the progress of the IHG and Kimpton merger nonetheless.
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Source: boardingarea.com