Hopper acquires GDX Travel, advancing NDC capacity and geographic growth

Price prediction and booking app Hopper has acquired GDX Travel, a Colombia-based company that specializes in airline distribution. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed. Hopper says the deal gives it access to GDX Travel’s API to connect directly to more than 25 regional and low-cost carriers in Latin America via IATA’s NDC, broadening the app’s offering of fares and ancillary products from these airlines. GDX Travel’s Bogota office will become Hopper’s Latin America headquarters – an important physical presence in a region that Hopper says is its second largest market outside of the United Sates, with a current year-over-year growth rate of more than 100%.