Articles tagged “booking holdings”

Cost and schedule are the two factors that most poignantly impact an individual's ability to travel and the U.S. Travel Association's efforts to improve infrastructure will likely have too little an impact to be noticeable among everyday flyers concerned with their own travel limitations.

The Priceline Group's culture is fairly buttoned up so the company wouldn't think about doing Airbnb-style apartment rentals at this juncture, but if the legal hassles eventually get sorted out, then Priceline would take a hard look.

The acquisition appears to highlight an effort by the Priceline Group to deepen its involvement with its hotel partners by providing digital marketing services above and beyond selling their rooms online.

Mobile bookings are on the rise worldwide and increased adoption in Asia is more likely due to the kind of devices that people own than their booking preferences.

Every travel brand engaged in mobile -- and that should be all of them -- should read about Booking.com's big-picture vision for mobile. Hipmunk and Expedia are also going down this road, albeit to a lesser degree.

There's a lot of candor about the Priceline Group's acquisition strategy in Huston's statements, and there is plenty of cash to back it all up. His passing reference to business travel as a potential big opportunity is extremely interesting.

There are too few travelers with Google Glass to make a hotel booking app useful -- outside of the PR buzz -- at this point.

Amadeus provides the technology, which keeps the travel sector moving - from initial search to making a booking, from pricing to ticketing, from managing reservations to managing check-in and departure processes. It is this strong commitment that we believe will enable us to continue working with our customers and partners to shape the future of travel.

The top 10 U.S. travel advertisers in paid search in 2012 also filled out the top 10 in 2013, although their positions changed somewhat. This shows how difficult it is for travel startups and other companies that were not early adopters to break through and get their messages out to consumers.

Travelers on the go seem to be a natural fit for mobile, but making mobile adoption more difficult is the stubborn fact that it can be a lot harder to book a hotel and compare prices elsewhere than it is to buy a piece of furniture on eBay. That travel industry is making strides, but other industries are more advanced.