Booking Holdings, a global travel services platform, inaugurated its first Center of Excellence in India on November 29, 2023.
The travel services company plans to invest USD 250 million and expand specialized and highly skilled technology talent to up to 1,000 headcounts at the Bengaluru CoE in the next five years.
“The Center of Excellence provides Booking Holdings access to high-performing talent with specialised capabilities who support projects across both the front and back end of products and services within the enterprise, as well as horizontally through shared service functions, powered by new and emerging technologies. The Center also plays an important role in enabling the company to leverage industry best practices and foster collaboration opportunities across all of the Booking Holdings brands, including Booking.com, Priceline, Agoda, Rentalcars.com, KAYAK and OpenTable. The Center already has a full management team in place, leading over 320…