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Articles tagged “booking.com”

Online Travel

Booking.com Finally Joins Major Hotel Chains in Book on TripAdvisor

Booking.com's participation in Book on TripAdvisor is a major win for TripAdvisor, which launched its Instant Booking product a couple of years ago and was slow to get hotels, and especially big online travel agencies to join. The U.S. Justice Department was correct, during the Expedia-Orbitz merger review, to see TripAdvisor Instant Booking as an emerging player to heighten competition.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 9 years ago

Booking.com Finally Joins Major Hotel Chains in Book on TripAdvisor

Hotels

Airbnb Needs to Watch Out for Booking.com’s Apartment Ambitions

Booking.com wants to answer the needs of "one customer," the one who books an apartment one day and a five-star hotel the next. Yes, a revolution in lodging is under way and Booking.com is now shouting about it.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 9 years ago

Airbnb Needs to Watch Out for Booking.com’s Apartment Ambitions

Online Travel

Expedia Pushes Further Into Hotel Services With Mobile App for Hoteliers

Online travel agencies used to be primarily concerned with handling bookings but now Expedia, Trivago, Booking.com and TripAdvisor are all making moves to give hoteliers executable intelligence about the market and other business-to-business services.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 9 years ago

Expedia Pushes Further Into Hotel Services With Mobile App for Hoteliers

Hotels

A Boutique Hotelier Explains What’s Wrong With the State of Online Booking

Independent hoteliers are indeed exploring alternatives to the big online travel agencies, including finding ways to spur more direct bookings, but sometimes it seems like a steep, uphill battle.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 9 years ago

A Boutique Hotelier Explains What’s Wrong With the State of Online Booking

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Expedia Antitrust Regulators Decide That Orbitz Is Too Small to Matter

We said all along that increased competition from Booking.com and TripAdvisor's burgeoning power as a hotel-booking site would be enough to get the Expedia-Orbitz deal approved. The Antitrust Division saw Google as an up-and-coming force in flight and hotel bookings, as well.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 9 years ago

Expedia Antitrust Regulators Decide That Orbitz Is Too Small to Matter

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Priceline Acquires Australian Restaurant Reservations Platform AS Digital

Developments at OpenTable have been almost as quiet as a library while the restaurant reservations platform has been in investment mode. The acquisition of a dining reservations platform in Australia is obviously a geographic play.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 9 years ago

Priceline Acquires Australian Restaurant Reservations Platform AS Digital

Hotels

TripAdvisor In Tiff With Vacation Rental Managers Over FlipKey Changes

TripAdvisor/FlipKey's challenges with the vacation rental industry aren't only technical ones. They also reflect increased supply available from individual homeowners and apartment renters. TripAdvisor, Booking.com and Airbnb are going after this sector and professionally managed properties are feeling the lumps.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 9 years ago

TripAdvisor In Tiff With Vacation Rental Managers Over FlipKey Changes

Online Travel

Is It Crisis Time for HotelTonight or All Systems Go?

As competitors close in and some do heavy TV advertising, HotelTonight states that it is doing "hundreds of millions of dollars" annually in gross bookings and that it has grown 100 percent per year over the last two years. This will continue to be an interesting skirmish between a well-funded startup focusing on last-minute versus larger players that can offer more wide-ranging solutions for hotels.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 9 years ago

Is It Crisis Time for HotelTonight or All Systems Go?

Hotels

The Lodging Revolution Begins With One Customer, Says Priceline CEO

Convergence is happening big time these days as online travel companies around the world, driven by the varied and changing accommodations' needs of their customers, are rapidly expanding and will continue to broaden their array of lodging options.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 9 years ago

The Lodging Revolution Begins With One Customer, Says Priceline CEO

Online Travel

Booking.com Finally Gets the Facebook Marketing Breakthrough It Wanted

Google has always been a valued Priceline Group partner but, until now, Facebook not so much. The Facebook relationship with Booking.com is improving, however, as the two behemoths increasingly friend one another.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 9 years ago

Booking.com Finally Gets the Facebook Marketing Breakthrough It Wanted