Dennis Schaal, Skift
It's back to the future for Booking Holdings, which is pivoting to emphasize the prepaid hotel model that its Booking.com unit basically spurned for most of its history. This means better cash flow because consumers pay when they book, and higher commissions.
3 months ago
Dennis Schaal, Skift
It's becoming increasingly clear that online travel players will try to leverage the heck out of connections between food delivery, ridehailing, and booking hotels. Uber and Lyft will undoubtedly become a bigger part of the action, as well.
3 months ago
Dan Peltier, Skift
4 months ago
Suttinee Yuvejwattana and Sunil Jagtiani, Bloomberg
Agoda has been a quiet giant steadily growing stronger. This year it has begun to throw its weight around more publicly. Airbnb and others need to be on guard.
6 months ago
Sean O'Neill, Skift
Agoda's new CEO John Brown will be leading the company to increasingly push into Europe and the Americas, beyond its traditional online travel agency turf of Asia Pacific. The early numbers show that parent company Booking Holdings is putting its money where its mouth is.
9 months ago
Dennis Schaal, Skift
All companies want repeat, loyal customers. Expedia is willing to buy their allegiances through loyalty programs while Booking.com vows to do without. It's another point-counterpoint between the two companies as they compete against one another in villages and cities around the world.
3 years ago
Rafat Ali, Skift
What can dislodge Priceline's growth path over the next few years? How much of a dent can a large number two play? Are there any startups that would come up to change the equation completely? Seems unlikely on all fronts.
5 years ago
Dennis Schaal, Skift
If any company were an expert in search engine marketing, you'd figure it would have to be Priceline since it's had so much practice and success. It is a testament to the complexity of the genre that the Priceline Group decided to go out and acquire a tiny, 2-year-old startup to further advance the effort.
5 years ago
