As the mammoth Marriott-Starwood hotel merger inches toward approval, business travel news site Skift is asking industry experts what it might signal. BCD Travel’s Kim Kearns, senior director of Supplier Relations, predicted more dealmaking. “We’ll continue to see mergers or acquisitions,” she told the magazine. But Kearns noted the next tie-up is likely to come in under the $13.6 billion valuation for Marriott-Starwood. “Will it be of the size of this? Probably not.”
