Holidu Acquires Gites.com, Its 14th Acquisition
Holidu's 14th deal folds a 4,000-property French portal into its platform. Fewer independent booking channels means property managers have one less distribution partner, and more demand concentrated in a shrinking set of metasearch platforms.
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Munich-based vacation-rental platform and metasearch Holidu has acquired Gites.com, a French holiday-rental portal (ShortTermRentalz, July 2026). The deal is Holidu’s 14th acquisition, and it deepens the roll-up of Europe’s fragmented vacation-rental distribution layer.
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