Over 20 years, online travel agent Lastminute.com has grown from its UK roots to owning a portfolio of travel companies across Europe. Acquired in 2015 by Swiss travel company Bravofly Rumbo Group, which has since changed its name to Lastminute.com Group, the business is now moving beyond its function as a travel agent and developing new income streams.
“We’ve built out a new business that’s very profitable for the company”, Alessandra Di Lorenzo, chief commercial officer of media and partnerships at Lastminute.com Group, told the Internet Retailing Expo (Birmingham, March 2018).
That business is The Travel People, founded in 2016...