French rail operator SNCF announced the acquisition of travel metasearch site Liligo this week, a deal supposedly worth around Euro 20 million for an undisclosed “majority” stake.
SNCF is already very active in online travel, owning the largest French travel portal Voyages-SNCF.com (9 million monthly uniques, Euro 2.4 billion turnover).
So this is what SNCF has captured as a result of the deal, and some background:
