Booking.com, Europe’s leading hotel portal, has expanded its presence in Spain by opening a second office in Madrid. Booking.com has been present in Barcelona since October 2003, and currently represents over 5,400 Spanish hotels. Booking.com said that the expansion is intended to broaden its market reach and better serve its local hotel supplier/partners.

“We are very pleased to now be operating from Madrid. The ever-increasing number of Spanish partner hotels makes it essential that we maintain our close and reliable relationships with the hoteliers. With a second office in the capital city, we can attend to the larger hotel chains based thereabout more effectively. Also, the estimated 400 hotels in Madrid now have their Booking.com contact person located conveniently close by,” comments Beatriz de Andres Arias-Salgado, Managing Director of Booking.com in Spain.

International Expansion

So far this year, Booking.com has opened in Singapore, San Francisco, New York and Athens. The Madrid office brings the total number of branches to 21, and Booking.com now internationally employs a staff of 935.