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🎆 As the year comes to a close, we’d like to thank everyone who joined us on our journey throughout 2024. With the holidays approaching, we believe there’s no greater journey than spending time with those who matter most. 🫶 Let this be a time to recharge, reconnect with loved ones, and look ahead to new beginnings. Wishing everyone a joyful festive season! #WeLiveForTheHolidays

🏝️2025 is just around the corner and shaping up to be an exciting year for the Travel and Tech industry. 📊Our very own Supply Director & Chief Commercial Officer Martin Kleinman, got to showcase our Travel Trends 2025 report at the Amadeus #Synergize event in London last week. As part of Amadeus Synergize, Rob Golledge hosted the Travel Trends segment in front of an audience of the industry’s finest, showcasing Travel trends for the coming year. We presented ours, we heard from Amadeus, and also from our partner Booking.com, presented by Justin Chalmers. All of the presentations were super-aligned, and the audience was energised to see the synergised commonalities in the illustrious trends for 2025. We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again - we work in the best industry in the world. And sharing industry insights is how we keep pushing to create the best experiences for customers and clients alike. Read our report here 👉 https://lnkd.in/ectj5eqi . And do check out Booking.com's report -https://lnkd.in/dkJExeee and the Amadeus Travel Trends 2025 report - https://lnkd.in/gz9xABjH - they both make for interesting reading too. #TravelTech #Travelin2025 #TravelTrends

🌟 We don’t know if you’ve noticed but our social media channels have had a bit of a glow-up. In 2024 we completely revamped our organic social strategy, and our reach grew (along with our followers). Their latest reactive campaign, supported by Frankly, absolutely ATE and we hope you agree. 🍟 The team moved fast after becoming obsessed with the Merchants TikTok account and bagged the first collaboration with them - lastminute.com x Chip Shop Diva - turned around in 3 business days Not only did our 3-part video series in collaboration with them hit 4.2 million total views, but we also put our lastminute.com stamp on it; the team worked with multiple colleagues across the business to launch a bespoke flight & hotel deal to Birmingham (which had additional package savings), created a landing page and even put the Merchants story on our homepage. 👇 Check out the video to find out more - trust and believe you’ll not see a better-looking chippy tea. And if you’re a brand who gets why we’re doing all this- hit up the team for a collab here: socialmedia@lastminute.com #socialmediastrategy #organicsocial #brandcollab

🚀 We are beyond proud to have WON two awards at the prestigious Travolution.com Awards. The double baubles were for doing what we do best - promoting and selling holidays and trips by website and app. 🏅 Best Travel Retailer - WINNERS 🏅 Best Social and Influencer Campaign - WINNERS The first award is for everyone involved in our Online Travel Agent business, from our commercial team to our customer services, who all work hard to help holidaymakers live their best lives. We’re all chuffed to bits. We’re also thrilled to see our new social-first brand strategy rewarded with our viral “One Year of Travel” campaign hitting the sweet spot. It’s the first time we’ve taken home either of these awards, against stiff competition from other incredible companies, so we would like to thank the judges for believing in us. 🌍 And last, but by no means least, a big thank you to Kate Harden-England and the team at Travolution for another amazing night, showcasing the best in Travel and Tech. We are in the best industry in the world and it showed during the evening. #TravolutionAwards #lastminuteawards #TravelTech

🏝️ Our latest Travel Horizons Report is out - a deep dive into the shifting tides of the Travel sector and what’s in store for 2025. 📊 Backed by decades of specialised knowledge relating to traveller behaviour, we embarked, alongside Forward, born from lastminute.com, on a quest to decode an ever-evolving travel landscape with a focus on: - Rethinking travel habits: The One-Stop-Shop trip made possible by Personalised Packages. - Emerging destinations for 2025 - Users’ most popular web searches Take a look at the report here:  https://lnkd.in/ectj5eqi #TravelHorizons #FutureOfTravel #Travel

🚀 We’re always happy to talk about lastminute.com’s vision, strategy, and growth potential. And at the Deutsche Börse Cash Market's Deutsches Eigenkapitalforum in Frankfurt, this week our CEO Luca Concone and CFO Diego Fiorentini got to do just that. The investment conference draws companies from diverse sectors, institutional and private investors analysts, and financial experts. It was a great opportunity to engage with investors, industry leaders and entrepreneurs from across the world and gain valuable insight into the latest trends and investment strategies. 🤝 A big thank you also to our meeting partners for visiting us. We appreciate the valuable discussions and look forward to future collaborations! #EKF24 #DeutschesEigenkapitalforum #TravelTech

🇨🇭 We’re pleased to announce our new collaboration with ATT - Agenzia Turistica Ticinese. As a Travel Tech company deeply rooted in Ticino, Switzerland, we strongly believe in giving back to the local community. Our Chiasso HQ can be found in the southernmost Canton (State) of Switzerland, one of three in the Alpine region. With Medieval castles and glorious lakes, it’s no wonder Ticino wanted to promote its local and off-season tourism. We wanted to make a tangible contribution to this cause, so we combined our Technology, Travel, and creative Digital Marketing expertise with the Ticino team’s deep knowledge of the area. 🚀 This has resulted in a tailored campaign by Forward, born from lastminute.com, that we’re excited to see take off today, aimed at promoting Ticino in Germany, Italy, and Switzerland.  👉🏼 As Fabio Salvatore, Chief Sustainability and Public Affairs Officer at lastminute.com, comments: "Sometimes helping a region thrive thanks to sustainability initiatives is just about doing what you do best, and dedicating your expertise to serving the local community where you live and operate." Have a look at the campaign pages here: https://lnkd.in/gv-MkeU9 https://lnkd.in/gd7eKw9k  🙏🏼 TICINO Turismo & Convention Bureau - - - 🇨🇭 Oggi siamo felici di annunciare la nostra nuova collaborazione con ATT - Agenzia Turistica Ticinese. In quanto azienda Travel Tech profondamente radicata in Ticino (Svizzera) crediamo fortemente nell'importanza di offrire un contributo concreto al territorio in cui viviamo e alla sua comunità locale. La nostra sede principale si trova in uno dei Cantoni più a sud del Paese, nella regione alpina, tra bellissimi laghi e castelli medievali. Consapevoli dell’impegno del Cantone per promuovere il turismo di prossimità e fuori stagione, abbiamo deciso di mettere la nostra tecnologia, la nostra esperienza nel settore dei viaggi e la creatività delle nostre persone al loro servizio, offrendo così un contributo tangibile. 🚀 Il risultato è una campagna su misura firmata Forward, born from lastminute.com che oggi siamo entusiasti di vedere prendere il via, e che ha come obiettivo quello di far conoscere maggiormente il Ticino e le sue peculiarità in Germania, Italia e anche nella Svizzera stessa! 👉🏼 Come commenta Fabio Salvatore, Chief Sustainability and Public Affairs Officer di lastminute.com: "Per contribuire allo sviluppo di un territorio attraverso iniziative di sostenibilità a volte basta offrire ciò che si sa fare meglio, mettendo il proprio lavoro al servizio della comunità locale in cui si opera, in cui si vive." Potete dare un’occhiata alle nuove pagine dedicate qui: https://lnkd.in/gv-MkeU9 https://lnkd.in/gd7eKw9k 🙏🏼 TICINO Turismo & Convention Bureau

🔙 in 2022, we launched an Ocean and River Protection initiative to raise our people’s awareness on the litter harming our cities, rivers, oceans: an issue concerning us directly as a company, being so linked to travellers’ habits and overtourism. 🔛Fast forward to now, we handed the reins over to our own people with a #CleanUpChallenge! Teams were invited to pick a spot in need and organise local clean-ups, whether it’s a beach, park, or their favourite neighbourhood spot. To make things fun, we challenged teams to see who could collect the most waste or find the funniest, most unusual items. All participants got to spend this time doing some good for their own city thanks to our Volunteering policy, which allows all employees to use up to two days per year for charity work. 🌍 Swipe through to check out recent cleanups in #Madrid, #London, and #Como and see what they collected!

World Travel Market 2024 🌍 – it’s a wrap! Here’s a little postcard from our amazing lastminute.com team at #WTM2024, one of the busiest & most attended travel events of the year, where they connected with hundreds of partners during a hectic - but absolutely rewarding - week. The energy at WTM reminds us just how much heart and soul goes into the travel industry. After days filled with meetings, ideas, and collaborations, we’re more focused than ever on working with our airline, hotel, and tech partners to keep offering travellers better ways to enjoy the holidays of their dreams. ✨ To all our partners: thank you for being a part of this journey with us. We all know we really work for the best industry in the world. In short, #WeLiveForTheHolidays. 🙏🏼 Azerbaijan Airlines Vietnam Airlines TAP Air Portugal Croatia Airlines LATAM Airlines flydubai Royal Air Maroc W2M WORLD2MEET DidaTravel Hilton Go Global Travel Rakuten Travel Grupo Hotusa Smyrooms, a brand of Grupo Viajes El Corte Inglés Agoda Sercotel Hotel Group HolidayCheck AG Travelfusion Sabre Corporation Amadeus Taj Hotels Accor THB hotels RIU Hotels & Resorts Lopesan Qatar Airways Expedia Group Partnerships Wozozo WebBeds Hotelbeds MTS Globe TBO.COM

🚀 Our 2024 Q3 results are out. We’re pleased to say they reveal a rebound of all key financial metrics - including Revenues, Gross Profit, Adjusted EBITDA and Net Result - after a softer first half of the year. As always our flagship Dynamic Holiday Packages (DP) are at the heart of Q3 growth. And we confirm our commitment to returning value to shareholders with the announcement of a Share Buyback programme. 🚀 New CEO elect announced. We are also delighted to announce that Alessandro Petazzi has been elected by the Board of Directors as the company’s new Chief Executive Officer, from 1 January 2025. Subject to the shareholders’ approval, Alessandro will succeed Luca Concone, who will remain as a Senior Advisor and Non-Executive Member of the Board of Directors. Yann Rousset, Chairman of lastminute.com said: “We are pleased about Alessandro’s election as CEO of lastminute.com. We are confident he will lead the company in a new phase of growth and innovation. We would also like to extend our heartfelt thanks to Luca Concone for his dedication and commitment. Under his leadership, the company has strengthened its market position and expanded its portfolio of cutting-edge online travel solutions.” You can learn more in our dedicated PR here: https://lnkd.in/dzpyPZFF 👉🏼 Here are the headlines for Q3 2024: - Revenues of €86.7 million (+6% vs. Q3 2023), driven by DP which grew by 37% year-on-year. - Take Rate increased by 1.1%, reaching an all-time quarterly high of 10%. - Gross Profit was €34.6 million (+6%).  - Adjusted EBITDA grew +2%, achieving €12.8 million, reflecting increased investment in tech and operational costs to create long-term efficiencies. CEO, Luca Concone, said: “Our Q3 results reflect a solid rebound from the softer performance earlier this year, showing the effectiveness of our strategic focus on our DP business and the resilience of our brand. These positive figures strengthen lastminute.com’s leading positioning in the European Dynamic Packaging market and enhance our competitive advantage. It has been a true privilege to lead lastminute.com during such a transformative time.” You can also find discover our 9 Months Y2D results along with our Q3 performance when you read our press release here: https://lnkd.in/dGB9tp9e #FinancialUpdate #TravelTech