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Articles tagged “booking holdings”

Online Travel

Tina Fey and Glenn Close Star in Booking.com Super Bowl Commercial

Barring last-minute entries, Booking.com may be the only travel company advertising nationally during Super Bowl 2024. However, given that Booking.com's annual sales and marketing spend exceeds $7 billion, the expense is certainly doable.

Dennis Schaal | 3 months ago

Tina Fey and Glenn Close Star in Booking.com Super Bowl Commercial

Online Travel

Booking Holdings CEO Recalls Road Back From Reverse Stock Split to $3,500 Per Share

One challenge for struggling travel SPACs beyond their stock prices is to create something new that's truly valuable to their customers. Booking.com did just that years ago, although others have caught up in the interim.

Dennis Schaal | 4 months ago

Booking Holdings CEO Recalls Road Back From Reverse Stock Split to $3,500 Per Share

Short-Term Rentals

The Bearish Outlook for Airbnb — and Why It’s Wrong: Analyst

Bernstein emphasizes a non-standard measure, customer growth rather than room night growth, to assess Airbnb versus rivals. That's because Airbnb has more multi-bedroom properties than it did pre-Covid. That's out-of-the-box thinking.

Dennis Schaal | 4 months ago

The Bearish Outlook for Airbnb — and Why It’s Wrong: Analyst

Short-Term Rentals

Booking Focuses on U.S. Short-Term Rental Growth While Airbnb Looks Abroad

Booking.com and Airbnb are raiding each other's territories. With their different roots, Booking.com needs to grow short-term rentals in the U.S. while Airbnb seeks to expand in Europe and elsewhere internationally.

Dennis Schaal | 5 months ago

Booking Focuses on U.S. Short-Term Rental Growth While Airbnb Looks Abroad

Online Travel

Booking vs. Google in Travel AI

No one truly knows how generative AI will shake up the travel industry. Will Google stick with advertising instead of booking? Meanwhile, Booking feels it has advantages as a booking site.

Dennis Schaal | 5 months ago

Booking vs. Google in Travel AI

Online Travel

Hackers Target Booking.com Partners With Dark Web Ads to Steal From Customers

Hackers have found a weak link in Booking.com security — its hotel partners. And the threat to Booking.com customers has been stubbornly persistent.

Dennis Schaal | 5 months ago

Hackers Target Booking.com Partners With Dark Web Ads to Steal From Customers

Startups

Paris Hilton Backs New AI Trip Planner and Jet Engine Startup Raises $116 Million

Paris Hilton is backing a new trip planner that combines AI and social media, shortly after another social media-based travel app announced backing by John Legend.

Justin Dawes | 5 months ago

Paris Hilton Backs New AI Trip Planner and Jet Engine Startup Raises $116 Million

News Blog

Spanish Authorities Clear Amazon, Booking, Tripadvisor Over Alleged Fake Reviews

Spain's anti-trust agency CNMC on Wednesday cleared Amazon, Booking Holdings and Tripadvisor of participating in or facilitating fake reviews on their websites. CNMC had been investigating a complaint filed by the OCU, a prominent consumer organization in Spain. "CNMC found no indication that the platforms have participated in or facilitated the publication of these false opinions," the…

Rashaad Jorden | 5 months ago

Short-Term Rentals

Airbnb, Booking, Expedia to Share Data With the UK Government

Data is precious, but accurate data straight from the source is trustworthy and actionable.

Srividya Kalyanaraman | 5 months ago

Airbnb, Booking, Expedia to Share Data With the UK Government

News Blog

Booking Paid $90 Million Termination Fee For Its Failed eTraveli Acquisition

Booking Holdings, whose $1.8 billion deal to acquire Sweden’s eTraveli Group was blocked by European Commission earlier this year, paid out $90 million in termination fee this October, according to a nugget in its latest quarterly statement. Typically deal breakup/termination fees are between 1-5 percent of the total deal value and paid by the seller…

Rafat Ali | 6 months ago