Articles tagged “booking holdings”

Booking.com might still be able to throw its commercial weight around with hotels despite these new agreements, depending on their fine print.

Although checking itineraries and swiping boarding passes will be the most common travel functions on Apple Watch, the ability to complete actions will likely become more important as the device's novelty wears off.

And so it begins. Amazon is experimenting and grasping for new ways to makes its mark in the hotel business. The new effort, which rolled out in the last couple of weeks, has been in the works at least since last Fall. It is modest at this point but no one knows where it is heading.

In the HomeAway-Airbnb-Booking.com love triangle, it is maverick Airbnb and Booking.com that actually have the most in common in terms of their preference for instantly confirmable bookings. And, like a scorned lover, HomeAway has been ratcheting up its criticisms of Booking.com.

HomeAway CEO Brian Sharples doesn't underestimate Booking.com as a competitor but the reality is that Booking.com isn't the most formidable rival in vacation rentals when you consider the market country by country.

This was a booking awesome decision by the ASA. The UK regulatory body, in clearing a Booking.com TV ad, finally got one right.

This campaign is Booking.com's attempt to hit the ground running this year in the hope that Expedia doesn't win the U.S. TV advertising race again.

When Huston took over as CEO of the Priceline Group 13 months ago, a financial analyst told us that Huston would play it safe and not make any bold moves in his first year at the helm because he needed to assure Wall Street about his leadership. Boy, was that analyst wrong.

Europeans' propensity to book last-minute flights more frequently that U.S. road warriors has more to do with the flight-marketing tactics of Ryanair and EasyJet than it has to do with mobile adoption.

A crack in the armor? Priceline's stock-price drop to below the $1,000 per share threshold is connected to European currency woes and is largely symbolic. It doesn't signal the immediate prospect for a prolonged decline.