Travel Industry Earnings Coverage

Don't miss out on Skift's in-depth coverage of earnings reported by public travel companies, including online travel agencies, hotel brands, airlines, and technology companies. Our earnings stories cut through the numbers to explain what's really happening at companies and within the industry as a whole.

Hotels

Choice Hotels Says It's Reinvigorating Its Lagging Comfort Inn Brand

Comfort Inn was long overdue for a reset and any improvement will be better than where the brand was suffering in recent years.

Dan Peltier | 10 years ago

Online Travel

Priceline Shatters the 100 Million Room Nights Milestone

Booking.com's focus on hotels plus TV and online advertising, which gets more guests into those hotels, is obviously paying off.

Dennis Schaal | 10 years ago

Tourism

Half of Walt Disney World Visitors Now Enter Wearing MyMagic+ Wristbands

By getting visitors into the parks faster, the MyMagic+ wristbands help them spend more easily and create that lucrative Disney magic the Walt Disney Co. wants in its coffers.

Dan Peltier | 10 years ago

Online Travel

TripAdvisor Will Fight for Dominance in Restaurant Reservations City By City

Restaurants, attractions and vacation rentals are just 12 percent of TripAdvisor's revenue but that number is going to get a lot bigger in the future.

Dennis Schaal | 10 years ago

Online Travel

Expedia's CEO Has a Formula to Beat Rivals Through Acquisitions and Growth

Baseball's N.Y. Yankees had its "core four" of Derek Jeter, Andy Pettitte, Jorge Posada, and Mariano Rivera. And Expedia has its own core four, namely Expedia.com, Hotels.com, Trivago, and Egencia as the foundation for global growth and the plan is to add regional acquisitions around the edges.

Dennis Schaal | 10 years ago

Announcements

Starwood Hotels Hires a Banker to Mull Strategic Alternatives

Starwood enters a period of uncertainty as the braintrust tries to figure out a way for the chain to get its mojo back. Is Starwood too big to merge with another global chain? We'll see.

Dennis Schaal | 10 years ago

Hotels

HomeAway Shuffles Management As European Operations Dampen Earnings

HomeAway is facing a relatively tough time in Europe where its subscription listing business is off and foreign exchange woes are impacting performance.

Dennis Schaal | 10 years ago

Online Travel

Travelzoo's Hotel Transformation Is Slow and Painful

The advantage that Travelzoo has that other new entrants in hotel booking don't is those 24.5 million registered members/newsletter subscribers. If Travelzoo can tweak its hotel booking engine and get it going, then at least it already has an audience.

Dennis Schaal | 10 years ago

Online Travel

Priceline CEO Takes a Shot at Expedia's Growth Strategy

The Priceline Group won't admit it but its management is feeling the heat from Expedia Inc.'s moves. Adding Orbitz Worldwide to Expedia Inc. will only increase Expedia's inorganic growth, which is growth nonetheless.

Dennis Schaal | 10 years ago

Hotels

Hilton Worldwide Reports Strong Profits, Room Growth for 2014

Hotels are ambitiously opening new rooms, entering new markets, and increasing rates in order to take advantage of growing outbound travel, however, their growth should be tempered by memories of what too much supply and too little demand felt like during the downturn.

Samantha Shankman | 10 years ago