A Trimmed Down VTrips Laid Off 9% of Its Employees
Consider this a peek behind the curtain of VTrips, which has not been immune from the layoffs rocking the property management industry.
Dennis Schaal is Skift’s Founding Editor and Executive Editor. Dennis has been a reporter focusing on online travel and short-term rentals for more than two decades at Skift, Tnooz, USA Today, and Travel Weekly. He is well-known for tough one-on-one interviews on stage at Skift events, including with the CEOs and top execs of Expedia, Uber, Booking Holdings, Priceline, Kayak, Hopper, and more.
Exclusive: Hopper Terminates Booking.com Partnership in Preemptive Strike
Hopper is in a much deeper state of hurt than it is letting on. It has a trimmed down vision to focus on direct hotel relationships after two of the biggest online travel agencies in the world departed as partners.
Expedia vs. Hopper: We Tested How Many ‘Taps’ to Book a Flight
To book a flight through the Expedia app is certainly sleeker and more transparent than through Hopper. Still, Hopper claims to be winning market share.
Hopper Cuts 30% of Staff in Bid to Get Profitable
Hopper's burn and growth rates were unsustainable — even for a company that had raised $730 million.
After Booking Deal Went Bust, Etraveli CEO Says Price ‘No Longer in Play’
Booking.com's appeal of the adverse European Commission decision on its merger with eTraveli Group will take years to play out. If self-styled "bigger fish" eTraveli is still around for the taking, it would cost considerably more.
Hopper CEO Claims Expedia Lost Bookings After Their Split
Competition certainly played a role in the Expedia-Hopper split. Which company suffered the greatest? The larger company, Expedia, had more resources to absorb a hit.
Hopper Contracts With Hotel Bedbanks After Losing Expedia Partnership
Few believed Hopper's statement in July that losing the Expedia partnership would have no impact. Now we know that Hopper began working on hotel deals to make itself whole and expand.
Booking Sends European Commission Memo to Fight For eTraveli Deal
This is might be called Booking Holdings statement of objections to the EC’s statement of objections to the eTraveli deal. This dust-up is heading for the courts.
Airbnb Pledges to Deliver On an Old Promise
To address this issue, Chesky reassured users that they don’t have to worry about fake listings because Airbnb is working on a new system to verify them.
Expedia Group’ EG Labs Will Let You Test New AI Products
EG Labs, which would provide a way for consumers to provide feedback for Expedia Group product betas, is itself a test. It seems as though an active feedback loop would provide more insights than merely observing user behavior.