Articles tagged “booking holdings”

The success of Priceline and Booking.com isn't all about business models and search-engine marketing spend. A good part of the winning formula pertains to a company that eschews PowerPoints, worries about often-overlooked things such as the "cost of coordination" among its brands, and puts effort into maintaining the culture that got it here.

Expedia hopes it can repeat the TripAdvisor playbook with newly acquired Trivago. Build Trivago, spin it off one day, let the shareholders exult, and start all over again. But sometimes life and business gets in the way.

Jeffery Boyd doesn't want to meddle in Priceline's business on a day to day basis, which may provide angst to some investors. Still, incoming CEO Darren Huston has capably led Priceline's prized asset, Booking.com, over the last two years, so he's got the pedigree in what promises to be a fascinating new era in online travel.

This represents a huge opportunity for hoteliers to partner with airlines and activity providers. It helps hotels become a more attractive choice by sharing more about a destination.

Interhome is HomeAway's largest catch so far as the professional manager of vacation homes signed on to HomeAway's pay-per booking program. Expect a parade of others to soon follow.

Priceline's Jeffery Boyd is going out -- from the CEO post, at least -- at the top, and the guy with a banker's demeanor will come to be viewed as a rock star of online and mobile travel. We don't know about groupies, but there certainly are a ton of imitators.

The changing of the guard is now official -- in more ways than one.