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Articles tagged “booking.com”

Hotels

Booking.com’s Hotel Rate Practices Get Slapped Down in Germany

The German regulator's ruling to reject Booking.com's reformed hotel rate practices as not going far enough could be a landmark decision if it holds up upon appeal and if other European countries follow Germany's lead. Booking.com may have the leverage to inhibit hotel partners from getting carried away on discounting but the ruling is a victory for consumers nonetheless.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 8 years ago

Booking.com’s Hotel Rate Practices Get Slapped Down in Germany

Media and PR

TripAdvisor and Google Identified as Booking Threats – 25 Moments in 2015

25 Moments that Mattered in 2015: To make our selection of 25 moments, we thought back to the stories that drove reader engagement and sparked discussion among both travel experts and the general public. Some stories were quick blips that represented bigger things while others were narratives that built slowly through out the year. Each one, though, spoke to where we are right now when it comes to the big business of global travel.

Skift | 8 years ago

TripAdvisor and Google Identified as Booking Threats – 25 Moments in 2015

Hotels

TripAdvisor to Expand Travelers Fees for Vacation Rentals

TripAdvisor's decision to expand travelers' fees for vacation rentals will please Wall Street and could put pressure on Booking.com, which adamantly eschews such fees, to do likewise.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 8 years ago

TripAdvisor to Expand Travelers Fees for Vacation Rentals

Hotels

Expedia CFO: Airbnb Getting Into Hotel Bookings Is a Serious Threat

The websites that have the most comprehensive set of lodging choices, whether they are hotels, vacation rentals, apartments or igloos, will dominate. Expedia, through its HomeAway acquisition and intent to develop apartment rentals in cities, knows this and is getting ready for the future of travel in lodging.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 8 years ago

Expedia CFO: Airbnb Getting Into Hotel Bookings Is a Serious Threat

Online Travel

Interview: Priceline CEO on Why He Didn’t Spend $4 Billion to Acquire HomeAway

Priceline Group CEO Darren Huston touts his company's organic growth versus Expedia Inc.'s strategy of mostly acquiring companies that need to be put back on track. Rest assured, however, that Priceline would plunk down a few billion dollars on the right acquisition target. It just wasn't HomeAway, and TripAdvisor and Airbnb are too expensive.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 8 years ago

Interview: Priceline CEO on Why He Didn’t Spend $4 Billion to Acquire HomeAway

Hotels

Expedia’s Trivago Follows Booking.com Into the Business Side of the Hotel Industry

While the big chains have tech and marketing people to optimize websites and their cost-per click campaigns, booking sites in transformation such as Booking.com, Trivago and TripAdvisor are squarely directed at making themselves more essential to smaller, independent hotels. It is another sign of the changing role of metasearch sites and online travel agencies in the mobile era.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 8 years ago

Expedia’s Trivago Follows Booking.com Into the Business Side of the Hotel Industry

Online Travel

Expedia CEO Says TripAdvisor’s Booking Deal With Priceline Group Is Exclusive

TripAdvisor wanted to keep the details secret. But the price for finally getting the Priceline Group/Booking.com into TripAdvisor Instant Booking was playing the online travel agency exclusivity card. Expedia is shut out for now and can join later. Will Book on Google play a similar game?

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 8 years ago

Expedia CEO Says TripAdvisor’s Booking Deal With Priceline Group Is Exclusive

Online Travel

Video: Priceline.com CEO on the Most Important Booking Metric

Understanding how Priceline.com turns lurkers into customers is key to gauging its success.

Jason Clampet, Skift | 8 years ago

Video: Priceline.com CEO on the Most Important Booking Metric

Hotels

Booking.com Goes Live on TripAdvisor Instant Booking With Pervasive Branding

As this TripAdvisor-Priceline Group partnership takes off, observe it closely because it signals a new stage in earnest in travel bookings -- the real emergence of third-party sites such as TripAdvisor and perhaps Google at some juncture that were primarily media sites as real forces in travel transactions.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 8 years ago

Booking.com Goes Live on TripAdvisor Instant Booking With Pervasive Branding

Online Travel

Video: Shake-Up in the Online Booking World

Expedia's purchase of HomeAway sets the stage for big moves in the online booking sector.

Jason Clampet, Skift | 8 years ago

Video: Shake-Up in the Online Booking World