2015 Archives

These teenagers and their crazy plans to change the aviation marketplace. It just might work.

These are the newest travel startups from Angel List vying for travelers’ interest and investors’ attention.

Don't expect the buying binge and consolidation in online travel to slow down any time soon. Expedia, the Priceline Group and TripAdvisor all intend to keep on acquiring puzzle pieces in 2015. HomeAway anyone?

Expedia, Travelocity, Orbitz, CheapTickets, Hotels.com, Hotwire, and Trivago -- they would all belong to Expedia Inc. if this Expedia-Orbitz deal gets approved by regulators. It's nice to be king -- although Priceline and Booking.com may have something to say about that.

It's just Priceline Vs. Expedia now in the U.S., at least for now.

Booking.com and now TripAdvisor are getting deeper into the B2B side of the hotel business. That leaves Expedia as the holdout that so far is maintaining its focus on hotel distribution and is sticking to its proverbial knitting.

Despite its past battery problems, the Dreamliner is a state-of-the-art aircraft which provides passengers a unique ride, good enough to inspire its main competitor. While focusing on revenue optimisation of these cabins, American Airlines makes the most of the Dreamliner's advantages with added passenger experience enhancements throughout.

Tourism boards that are getting in the app game need to form real partnerships to bridge app user activity with referral information to benefit both attractions and hotels and in-market silent travelers.

Being the first to do something is never easy, but these travel professionals show how being first helped them stand out and gain respect.

As the TripAdvisor Business Listings subscription business matures four years after launch, the company is getting more sophisticated and adopting a degree of performance-based pricing -- or at least pricing based on anticipated performance -- to its fee structure. Is it fair? It likely depends on how good that new algorithm is.