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Articles tagged “booking.com”

Online Travel

Priceline Group’s New CEO Is Veteran Merger Guru Glenn Fogel

The selection of Glenn Fogel as CEO is likely one that will please Wall Street as he represents stability and is highly regarded inside the travel industry and beyond it. Is it purely coincidence that the Group announces its CEO pick after eight months of looking, hours before Expedia's Trivago is slated to price its IPO? Probably not.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 7 years ago

Priceline Group’s New CEO Is Veteran Merger Guru Glenn Fogel

Online Travel

Skift Backstage Podcast: Booking.com CEO on Taking a Mobile-First Approach

Tune in to hear Booking.com CEO Gillian Tans talk about how the company is trying to build products that meet higher consumer expectations.

Hannah Sampson, Skift | 7 years ago

Skift Backstage Podcast: Booking.com CEO on Taking a Mobile-First Approach

Hotels

HomeAway President Says Company Needs to Win Back Credibility From Homeowners

HomeAway president John Kim, after a manner, is trying to turn HomeAway into the type of company that Airbnb is -- one that is focused on technology improvements and a great user experience. In many ways, Kim has the tougher job. He isn't starting from scratch, as Airbnb did, but is attempting to spur changes in a company that has been around since 2005 and grew through a flurry of acquisitions.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 7 years ago

HomeAway President Says Company Needs to Win Back Credibility From Homeowners

Online Travel

Video: Booking.com CEO on Keeping Customers at Center of Strategy

Booking.com, which does more than 1,000 A/B tests daily, is testing a rewards program for business travelers, but CEO Gillian Tans still believes that true loyalty is more about delivering its core product for customers than points and rewards schemes.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 7 years ago

Video: Booking.com CEO on Keeping Customers at Center of Strategy

Online Travel

Booking.com CEO: Higher Consumer Expectations Bring New Challenges

As Booking.com knows, if companies don't innovate quickly -- and learn from the experience -- they'll die.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 7 years ago

Booking.com CEO: Higher Consumer Expectations Bring New Challenges

Airlines

Booking.com Powers Hotels for Southwest, Its First U.S. Airline

Booking.com displaced Southwest's long-time hotel partner, Orbitz, on Southwest.com. Booking.com's pay-at-the-hotel system meshes much better with Southwest's flexible fare structure than did Orbitz's preponderous hotel bookings requiring prepayment. Booking.com's integration of its Rocketmiles acquisition on Southwest now makes total sense.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 7 years ago

Booking.com Powers Hotels for Southwest, Its First U.S. Airline

Hotels

Can Direct-Booking Campaigns End Up With Both Sides Declaring Victory?

Direct booking is not really a war where one side must lose. Both the large hotel chains and online travel agencies could wind up better off if they act rationally on pricing.

Jared Wein, Skift | 7 years ago

Can Direct-Booking Campaigns End Up With Both Sides Declaring Victory?

Online Travel

Priceline Group CEO Search Is Drawing to a Close

Glenn Fogel is the heir apparent, even if he is the first time CEO. Fogel knows the company and the industry's competitive dynamics as well as anyone on earth and played a huge role in getting the Group to the top of the heap.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 7 years ago

Priceline Group CEO Search Is Drawing to a Close

Online Travel

China’s Ctrip Plans to Compete in the U.S. Against Expedia and Booking.com

It's not around the corner but you can expect China's Ctrip to set up shop to compete against online and offline travel giants in the U.S. Breaking in through acquisition would be an obvious strategy although it's unclear whether that's actually part of Ctrip's seemingly very active strategic plan.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 7 years ago

China’s Ctrip Plans to Compete in the U.S. Against Expedia and Booking.com

Online Travel

Expedia Begins Revealing Its Big Ambitions in Hotel Services

Expedia is seeking to gain even more influence in the hotel industry while the big chains are trying to limit online travel agencies' clout through the hotels' direct-booking campaigns. As Expedia's recent Marriott Vacations and Red Lion deals, along with the needs of smaller hotels, show, there is substantial upside for Expedia.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 8 years ago

Expedia Begins Revealing Its Big Ambitions in Hotel Services