Articles tagged “european union”

TikTok has become an influential force in travel discovery. Selling travel more directly would make it formidable.

Cruise lines have work to do to prepare for the European Union's new border control measures coming this year and next.

As the saying goes about changes to the way Google displays flights, the devil will be in the details.

Booking.com's appeal of the adverse European Commission decision on its merger with eTraveli Group will take years to play out. If self-styled "bigger fish" eTraveli is still around for the taking, it would cost considerably more.

This is might be called Booking Holdings statement of objections to the EC’s statement of objections to the eTraveli deal. This dust-up is heading for the courts.

The European Union is on track to ban marketing claims such as "climate neutral" by 2026 that scientifically based certification can't validate.

In the first half of 2023, Europe experienced its highest number of tourist stays in the past decade, according to Eurostat, the European Union's statistics agency. Europe recorded 1.19 billion…

If the European Commission's decision isn't overturned, one implication may be that Booking.com would be precluded in practice from making major acquisitions. Period.

Booking Holdings' proposed remedy to push through its pending deal to acquire eTraveli Group may not be enough. Perhaps additional concessions or litigation are in the offing.

We saw during the pandemic how important it was for companies to have plenty of cash and the ability to borrow more. Airbnb and Booking Holdings have ample resources for big things on their to-do lists.