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Articles tagged “booking holdings”

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Travel Megatrends 2019: Consolidation Creates Travel Brand Bullies

In a rush to scale, consolidated travel companies find themselves with outsized market share that often leads to muscling consumers to their advantage. With no good alternatives, how will travelers react to the pressure?

Andrew Sheivachman, Skift | 4 years ago

Travel Megatrends 2019: Consolidation Creates Travel Brand Bullies

Online Travel

Expedia Had a Less-Is-More Approach to Mergers in 2018

Expedia is an opportunistic company, and mergers and acquisitions are part of its DNA. The company has been quiet on this front for the past three years. It is sort of due to make another big splash.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 4 years ago

Expedia Had a Less-Is-More Approach to Mergers in 2018

Online Travel

Expedia Group: The World’s Travel Platform. Really?

Expedia Group is arguably — OK, clearly — not "The World's Travel Platform." But we understand that marketing machines strive to do their thing.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 4 years ago

Expedia Group: The World’s Travel Platform. Really?

Online Travel

Ctrip Chairman Shrugs Off Impact of Trump Tariff Dispute — For Now

Ctrip has been able to spend most of its 15-year history riding a rising travel tide in China while buying out much of the competition to blunt their challenges. For 2019, Ctrip will have to stand up and get moving to recapture momentum and investor attention.

Steven Schwankert, Skift | 4 years ago

Ctrip Chairman Shrugs Off Impact of Trump Tariff Dispute — For Now

Online Travel

Booking Holdings Faces a Hotel Chain Challenge in U.S. Competition With Expedia

Booking.com has been making strides in the U.S. market for several years, but the challenges are formidable. Expedia is outspending Booking.com on U.S. TV, and then there is Airbnb to throw into the equation.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 4 years ago

Booking Holdings Faces a Hotel Chain Challenge in U.S. Competition With Expedia

Online Travel

Expedia Isn’t Ready to Invest Big in Restaurant Reservations

Expedia has dealt with a ton of distractions in recent years as it acquired Wotif, Travelocity, Orbitz Worldwide, and HomeAway, for example. CEO Mark Okerstrom wants to focus on the basics instead, and doesn't want to take bold steps into dining reservations or food delivery for now. On the other hand, Expedia is a very acquisitive company so never say never.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 4 years ago

Expedia Isn’t Ready to Invest Big in Restaurant Reservations

Online Travel

Expedia CEO: Google Is Our Biggest Competitor

It's rare to have an Expedia CEO speak so candidly about Google's threat to his own company. After all, Google knows how to punish companies when it wants to. Given Barry Diller's recent statements, and Okerstrom's view, there must be a lot of concern in Expedialand behind the scenes.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 5 years ago

Expedia CEO: Google Is Our Biggest Competitor

Online Travel

Booking Holdings Is Taking Its Time to Deliver On a Steep Promise

Booking.com is taking its sweet time to implement a flights-to-attractions travel offering. Some would say the pace is Google-like in its slowness. But behind the scenes, data reigns supreme, and dictates whether a product is scrapped, implemented with a twist, or then reshaped anew. Refill the popcorn. This will take a while.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 5 years ago

Booking Holdings Is Taking Its Time to Deliver On a Steep Promise

Online Travel

Booking Holdings Makes Major Pivot Toward Prepaid Hotel Bookings

It's back to the future for Booking Holdings, which is pivoting to emphasize the prepaid hotel model that its Booking.com unit basically spurned for most of its history. This means better cash flow because consumers pay when they book, and higher commissions.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 5 years ago

Booking Holdings Makes Major Pivot Toward Prepaid Hotel Bookings

Online Travel

Booking Holdings Invests $200 Million in Grab as Ridehailing Becomes More Strategic

It's becoming increasingly clear that online travel players will try to leverage the heck out of connections between food delivery, ridehailing, and booking hotels. Uber and Lyft will undoubtedly become a bigger part of the action, as well.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 5 years ago

Booking Holdings Invests $200 Million in Grab as Ridehailing Becomes More Strategic