Articles tagged “booking.com”

Hotels

Booking.com No Longer Toying With Vacation Rentals, Reaches Historic Milestone

In a turning point for Booking.com and the hospitality industry, the largest lodging site in the world now has so many vacation rental listings, dispersed across 193 destinations, that it is changing the nature of the online travel business.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 10 years ago

Hotels

Why Booking.com Is Determined Not To Be Hated Like Expedia

The success of Priceline and Booking.com isn't all about business models and search-engine marketing spend. A good part of the winning formula pertains to a company that eschews PowerPoints, worries about often-overlooked things such as the "cost of coordination" among its brands, and puts effort into maintaining the culture that got it here.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 10 years ago

Hotels

Expedia CEO Has No Regrets About Spinning Off TripAdvisor

Expedia hopes it can repeat the TripAdvisor playbook with newly acquired Trivago. Build Trivago, spin it off one day, let the shareholders exult, and start all over again. But sometimes life and business gets in the way.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 10 years ago

Hotels

Priceline’s Two CEOs on The Future of Travel’s Biggest Brand

Jeffery Boyd doesn't want to meddle in Priceline's business on a day to day basis, which may provide angst to some investors. Still, incoming CEO Darren Huston has capably led Priceline's prized asset, Booking.com, over the last two years, so he's got the pedigree in what promises to be a fascinating new era in online travel.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 10 years ago

Hotels

HomeAway Signs Large European Vacation Rental Provider To Pay-Per-Booking

Interhome is HomeAway's largest catch so far as the professional manager of vacation homes signed on to HomeAway's pay-per booking program. Expect a parade of others to soon follow.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 10 years ago

Online Travel

Top 25 Online Booking Sites in Travel for October 2013

Skift | 11 years ago

Hotels

7 Things Priceline’s Jeffery Boyd Changed About the Business of Travel

Priceline's Jeffery Boyd is going out -- from the CEO post, at least -- at the top, and the guy with a banker's demeanor will come to be viewed as a rock star of online and mobile travel. We don't know about groupies, but there certainly are a ton of imitators.

Dennis Schaal , Skift | 11 years ago

Online Travel

Priceline Overtakes Expedia in Gross Bookings for the First Time

The changing of the guard is now official -- in more ways than one.

Dennis Schaal , Skift | 11 years ago

Hotels

Expedia’s Uphill Climb Must Meet Booking.com’s Structural Advantages

One of Expedia's answers to Booking.com is the Expedia Traveler Preference Program, giving consumers the choice to prepay for a hotel (merchant model) or pay at the hotel (an agency model like Booking.com's). Booking.com's sole use of the agency model gives it a speed advantage as the merchant model is more complicated when signing on and retaining hotels.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 11 years ago

Online Travel

How The Travel Booking Giants Stack Up and Where They Are Heading

The Expedia-Travelocity deal won't likely trigger a lot of consolidation because there aren't a lot of U.S. pieces left worth buying.

Dennis Schaal , Skift | 11 years ago