Priceline CEO Interview: Why It Is in 'Constant Discussions' With HomeAway
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Watching how Priceline Group, HomeAway, and Expedia interact in 2015 may turn out to be a very interesting look at a fascinating contact sport.
There's always talk that the Priceline Group and HomeAway would make for a great merger, and we've written about it previously.
But as part of our Future of Travel Booking E-Book we had a chance to ask Priceline Group CEO Darren Huston, when we sat down with him in November, what he thinks of HomeAway. HomeAway is actively pushing vacation rentals online, and Huston speaks of a standard that HomeAway needs to achieve if the two companies are to work together.
The interview -- and you can read a small excerpt below -- also elucidates a significant difference in the strategies of the Priceline Group and TripAdvisor. That is, TripAdvisor, which last year acquired Viator and Lafourchette, wants to own the entire tr
