WolrdRes Is Now in the Hands of an Irish Reservation Company

The Dublin-based company Web Resrvations International, specialized in youth and budget travel, has acquired hotel distributor, WorldRes, adding to its platform 35,000 hotels and 2,000 online distributors, Travel Weekly reports.

Now operating on the WRI´s platform are Opodo, Lastminute.com, SAS.com and Hotels.de, among others. WRI´s existing brands, which operate under its hostels division, include Hostels.com, Hostelworld.com and Trav.com. WRI also provides reservations technology to Rail Europe, Ryanair.com, Lonelyplanet.com and Flybe.com.