Articles tagged “booking holdings”

Officials at Booking.com and Expedia know their hotel businesses are so far ahead of Amazon's nascent moves that they aren't cowering in fear at the might of Amazon. But you can bet they will be taking a hard look at the expanded Amazon Destinations today, as will the folks at Google and TripAdvisor.

TripAdvisor and Kayak are making moves that could cause big waves in online travel booking.

The emergence of TripAdvisor as a viable booking site is a wake-up call to Expedia and the Priceline Group, who have been TripAdvisor's largest advertisers in recent years. It wouldn't be surprising to see them cut the spending spigot a bit.

Is Kayak abandoning metasearch? Not likely at all. But why not test photos and merchandising messaging on a site that is a Kayak offshoot instead of a Booking.com clone?

In contrast to its recent penchant for big acquisitions, the Priceline Group now seems to be content to take minority stakes, such as this one with Hotel Urbano, while Priceline focuses on integrating past acquisitions and its new B2B businesses.

Slack is becoming the messaging app of choice for modern work teams, and these nascent travel services are just the start. Expect more established business travel related services and new Slack-native services to crop up in coming months.

Hotels and the big online travel agencies will have to adapt to the sharing economy. Booking.com is already doing so in the form of nearly 300,000 vacation rentals and Expedia is taking its sweet time and will make a move when it has to.

Sustainability sounds nice in theory, but the reality is travelers care a lot more about other features hotels offer that really determine whether or not they'll book.

Smart booking and passenger management systems are evolving at a rapid pace, so we should expect big improvements in the passenger experience.

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