AccorHotels acquires VeryChic digital travel deals platform

AccorHotels acquires VeryChic digital travel deals platform

The business has a membership base of five million and distributes deals from more than 3,000 luxury hotels across 40 countries. Continue reading

VeryChic, a digital travel deals platform selling hotel rooms and apartments, cruises, breaks and packages has been acquired by AccorHotels for an undisclosed sum.

The business has a membership base of five million and distributes deals from more than 3,000 luxury hotels across 40 countries.

VeryChic was created in 2011 by Nicolas Clair, Hervé Lafont and Charles Decaux.

AccorHotels intends to strengthen its expertise in the creation of “exceptional private sales” and to enable VeryChic to accelerate its international development and become the global leader in its sector.

New business chief operating officer, Steven Daines, said: “We are delighted to be working with Nicolas, Hervé and Charles, who in just five years have managed to earn the trust of millions of members and of thousands of hotel partners thanks both to their unique expertise in the field of luxury private sales and their commitment to absolute quality.

“Our ambition is to support VeryChic in its international expansion in order to consolidate its leadership and benefit from its expertise to provide a portfolio of incredible locations and attractive offers to our guests, while presenting our hotels with a complementary solution to optimize the distribution of their rooms”.

Lafont, chairman and chief executive of VeryChic, added: “VeryChic is a distribution solution that enables hotels both to reach and retain new guests.

“We share with AccorHotels a vision of offering hospitality to our guests without ever compromising on the quality of the experience, as well as a passion for innovative distribution solutions.

“The combination with AccorHotels will allow VeryChic to roll out globally the services that we have been providing to hotels for the past five years and to offer our members the opportunity to discover the most beautiful locations in the luxury hotel sector.”