HotelQuickly
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| Industry | Travel, Lodging, Tourism |
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| Founded | December 2012 |
| Founders | Tomas Laboutka, Christian Mischler, Michal Juhas, Mario Peng, Raphael Cohen |
| Headquarters | Bangkok, Thailand |
Number of locations | Austin, Hong Kong, San Francisco, Singapore, Sydney |
Area served | Worldwide |
| Services | Hotel Booking |
| Parent | Rising Sun Merchant Services Pte Ltd |
| Website | hotelquickly |
HotelQuickly is a hotel booking website and smartphone app, available for Android and iOS devices, that allows users to find discounted hotels throughout the world.[1][2][3] The service has access to over 450,000 hotels and is localized to 17 different languages, including Thai; Vietnamese; Japanese; traditional and simplified Chinese; and English.[4][5]
History
HotelQuickly was founded in December 2012 by Tomas Laboutka (CEO), Christian Mischler (COO & CMO), Michal Juhas (CTO), Mario Peng (CFO), and Raphael Cohen (CSO).[6][7] Laboutka and Juhas previously founded ventures in Central Europe, Mischler and Cohen were co-founders and Managing Directors of Rocket Internet ventures in Asia, and Peng joined from global private equity fund Partners Group.[8][9] Mischler is currently serving as a partner at Swiss Founders Fund.
The following March, HotelQuickly was launched publicly in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia. Within less than a year, we had expanded to Vietnam, Cambodia, and Macau, as well as overseas to Australia and New Zealand, making HotelQuickly the first to provide last-minute mobile-only hotel booking on the two continents.[10][11][12]
In August 2013, HotelQuickly secured HK$9 million in angel funding.[13] Investors included Koh Boon Hwee, former Chairman of Singtel and Chairman of Singapore Airlines and board member of several private companies such as Singapore’s Temasek Holdings.[14] US$4.5 million in Series A-1 funding was raised in the Spring 2014, bringing the total funds raised to US$5.65 million.[15] The second round was led by GREE and co-invested by William E. Heinecke, Chairman and CEO of Minor International.[16][17]
In 2016, HotelQuickly expanded in the Asia-Pacific region to the Philippines, Myanmar, Laos, South Korea and Japan bringing the number of available countries on the application to 16.[18][19][20] At the end of February 2016, HotelQuickly announced the acquisition of Japanese last-minute hotel booking app Tonight, which was acquired for an undisclosed amount and was fully integrated into HotelQuickly.[20]
Early 2017, the founders of HotelQuickly sold the business to Rising Sun Merchant Services, based in Singapore and managed by Jérôme Clé, and fully stepped away from the operations of the company.[21][22]
In December 2018 they cheated a lot of clients by cancelling their bookings with no warning, and denying any kind of refund.[23]
References
- ^ Yap, Jacky. "HotelQuickly launches in 6 countries, books curated hotels". e27. Retrieved 26 March 2014.
- ^ Wee, Willis. "HotelQuickly Books Your Hotels Really Quickly, Launches in 6 Asian Countries". Tech In Asia. Retrieved 26 March 2014.
- ^ Yeoh, Siew Hoon. "Same-day hotel booking space heats up as HotelQuickly joins fray". Web In Travel. Archived from the original on 5 May 2014. Retrieved 26 March 2014.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ Huang, Elaine. "HotelQuickly travels to Philippines taking its presence to 12 countries". e27. Retrieved 26 March 2014.
- ^ Grant, Rebecca. "Same-day booking app HotelQuickly claims dominance in Asia before rival HotelTonight". VentureBeat.
- ^ "Investment Bank Defectors Fuel Startup Scene in Hong Kong: Tech". Businessweek. 29 January 2014.
- ^ Walter, Christian. "Hotel Quickly receives a US$1.16 million investment". Bangkok Startup. Archived from the original on 4 October 2013. Retrieved 4 October 2013.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ O'Hear, Steve. "Ex-Rocket Internet Execs Launch HotelQuickly In Bid To Become The HotelTonight Of Asia". TechCrunch. Retrieved 26 March 2014.
- ^ Xiang, Tracey. "Hong Kong-based HotelQuickly Launches Last-minute Hotel Booking Service in Six Regions across Asia". TechNode. Retrieved 26 March 2014.
- ^ "HotelQuickly arrives in Vietnam". Web In Travel. 1 May 2013. Archived from the original on 5 May 2014.
{{cite news}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ Summers, Nick (8 May 2013). "HotelQuickly launches its same-day hotel booking app in Australia with Sydney and Melbourne listings". The Next Web.
- ^ Racoma, J. Angelo (28 May 2013). "HotelQuickly expands to new countries and gives us an Echelon special".
- ^ Prabu, Karthick. "The last-minute hotel market is alive and kicking, HotelQuickly raises $1.2 million funding". Tnooz.
- ^ Shu, Catherine. "HotelQuickly Raises $1.16M Series A To Expand In Asia". TechCrunch.
- ^ O'Hear, Steve (9 July 2014). "HotelQuickly Raises $4.5 Million To Double-Down On Last Minute Hotel Booking In Asia-Pacific". Tech Crunch. Retrieved 11 September 2014.
- ^ Hong, Kaylene (10 July 2014). "HotelQuickly wants to make last-minute hotel booking big in Asia with funding from games giant GREE". The Next Web. Retrieved 11 September 2014.
- ^ Dorbian, Iris (11 July 2014). "Hotel Quickly books $4.5 mln". Reuters. Retrieved 11 September 2014.
- ^ "Rocket Internet alumni club startup Hotel Quickly rolls into the Philippines due to high demand". Yahoo! News. 10 January 2014.
- ^ "HotelQuickly goes live in the Philippines offering late deals". TTG Asia. 10 January 2014.
- ^ a b "HotelQuickly acquires Japan's Tonight". DealStreetAsia. Retrieved 2016-08-17.
- ^ "HotelQuickly's Tomas Laboutka steps down as CEO, will remain as Board Advisor". e27. Retrieved 2018-12-07.
- ^ "HotelQuickly's New Partnerships Create Innovative and Interactive Global Booking Platform". AsiaOne. Retrieved 2018-12-07.
- ^ https://es.trustpilot.com/review/www.hotelquickly.com?languages=all
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