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J. SilvaStartups in Actionhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5787-6_1

1. Year One of Despegar

JP Silva1  
(1)
Toronto, ON, Canada
 

Despegar (www.us.despegar.com) is an online travel booking service founded by Roberto Souviron, Martín Rastellino, Ernesto Cadeiras, Federico Fuchs, Christian Vilate, Alejandro Tamer, and Mariano Fiori. On September 2017, when it started trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) at a valuation of more than $2 billion, it was generating gross bookings of more than $3.2 billion annually.

Figure 1-1 shows Despegar’s landing page as of January 2020.

A screenshot of the Desegar page, which lists the options under ...

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