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Metasearcher Hometogo acquires Casamundo with Wimdu set to close
Reading Time: 2 minutesWorldwide: German-based holiday home metasearch company Hometogo has assumed control of Casamundo following the news of struggling Airbnb rival Wimdu’s imminent closure. The Berlin-based Hometogo meta-search provider for holiday homes, searches 300 different websites with a total of 15 million offers, including major accommodation providers such as Booking.com, the HomeAway group, TripAdvisor, e-domizil and TUI […]
Airbnb competitor Wimdu to close by the end of this year
Reading Time: 2 minutesEurope: Wimdu, Europe’s most well-funded clone of Airbnb, is to close by the end of the year owing to ‘significant financial and business challenges’. Partners of the company were informed by the message on Thursday, nine years after Wimdu was founded and labelled as the ‘Airbnb killer’. The news means that Wimdu will have to […]