Flash sales site LivingSocial has sold more than 500,000 hotel room nights at nearly 800 properties since launching LivingSocial Escapes 11 months ago.
The 500,000 room-night milestone doesn’t exactly put LivingSocial in the category of Expedia, which sold 79.7 million room nights in 2010 and recently began powering Groupon Getaways, but it’s a relatively big number nonetheless.
Doug Miller, LivingSocial’s senior vice president of new initiatives, says travel has become “material” to the company’s financials.
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