Articles tagged “decolar”

Online Travel

Latin America’s Despegar Opens Travel Agencies to Get Travelers to Book Online

If you work for an online travel agency and suggested it open brick-and-mortar stores to bring customers online, you would get very quizzical looks, at the least. Let's see if it works in Argentina and Brazil for Despegar/Decolar.

Dennis Schaal | 2 months ago

Latin America’s Despegar Opens Travel Agencies to Get Travelers to Book Online

Online Travel

Despegar Sees Brazil Gains After Alleged Airline Ticket Ponzi Scheme Goes Bust

Brazil is a huge market, as are airline tickets, for Despegar. A rival with an alleged Ponzi scheme for selling airline tickets wasn't really fair competition.

Dennis Schaal | 5 months ago

Despegar Sees Brazil Gains After Alleged Airline Ticket Ponzi Scheme Goes Bust

Online Travel

Despegar Is Opening Stores in Brazil and Argentina

You probably won't see many credit card machines at Despegar's stores or booths in Argentina. But you will see travelers with cash.

Dennis Schaal | 8 months ago

Despegar Is Opening Stores in Brazil and Argentina

Online Travel

Despegar Bulks Up on Vacation Rentals To Fend Off Competition From Global Players

Despegar is growing with a steady pace of mergers and acquisitions, including Viajanet and Stays. It's a smart move to use vacation rentals to defend and expand market share.

Dennis Schaal | 2 years ago

Despegar Bulks Up on Vacation Rentals To Fend Off Competition From Global Players

Online Travel

Despegar Finds Acquisition Bargains in Latin America’s Hard-Hit Economies

At the beginning of the pandemic, it was clear there would be plenty of mergers and acquisition targets. Despegar found at least a couple in Viajanet and Stays.

Dennis Schaal | 2 years ago

Despegar Finds Acquisition Bargains in Latin America’s Hard-Hit Economies

Online Travel

Latin America’s Despegar Turns to Its Acquisitions for Pandemic Improvements

Like Traveloka in Indonesia, Argentina's Despegar is making strides in financial services. Amsterdam-based Booking.com is busy building a payments platform, and Grab Taxi in Southeast Asia has a lending and insurance arm. Megatrend, yes.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 3 years ago

Latin America’s Despegar Turns to Its Acquisitions for Pandemic Improvements

Online Travel

Despegar Surfs Rising Wave of Mobile Travel Bookings in Latin America

The Argentine economic crisis continues to drag on Despegar, but the online travel agency's continuous investment in mobile is setting it up for long-term growth across the continent.

Sean O'Neill, Skift | 5 years ago

Despegar Surfs Rising Wave of Mobile Travel Bookings in Latin America

Travel Booking

MakeMyTrip and Despegar Make Localization a Key Competitive Advantage

Does Expedia or Booking have the energy to launch their booking apps in four local Indian dialects? Maybe not, but MakeMyTrip does, and that local effort matters.

Seth Borko, Skift Research | 6 years ago

MakeMyTrip and Despegar Make Localization a Key Competitive Advantage

Online Travel

Despegar Files for $100 Million IPO and Expedia Could Benefit From Its Growth

Despegar is on track to attract a $1 billion valuation. That's impressive. But its newish CEO needs to pivot the business away from a reliance on selling airline tickets, which are becoming less profitable for his firm by the day.

Sean O'Neill, Skift | 7 years ago

Despegar Files for $100 Million IPO and Expedia Could Benefit From Its Growth

Online Travel

Oral History of Online Travel: How Decolar Built an Online Booking Brand Offline

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, when Decolar approached local airlines to forge partnerships, the carriers just didn't appreciate what the site was trying to do. But Decolar, which has its struggles today, indeed outlasted many of those airlines.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 8 years ago

Oral History of Online Travel: How Decolar Built an Online Booking Brand Offline