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Expedia News

The latest news and analysis of Expedia, including breaking news, executive interviews, earnings coverage, and analysis of its competitors.

Online Travel

Expedia CFO: We’re Looking For a Few More Travelocity-Like Deals

Was the Expedia-Travelocity deal just a harbinger of things to come? Expedia thinks so and is looking for additional online travel agency partners who would consider outsourcing the hard stuff to Expedia.

Expedia CFO: We’re Looking For a Few More Travelocity-Like Deals

Online Travel

How Expedia Uses Bloggers to Boost Its SEO Prowess

Expedia has been the most aggressive big travel band in corralling travel bloggers, and although their proselytizing can at times be clumsy, it has mostly been very effective.

How Expedia Uses Bloggers to Boost Its SEO Prowess

Online Travel

Expedia Is in No Hurry to Start Selling Vacation Rentals From HomeAway

Want to gauge Expedia's priorities? It implemented its hotel partnership with Travelocity in a hurry in December. But when it comes to rolling out HomeAway's vacation rentals, Expedia says it will get around to deciding how to proceed in the second half of 2014.

Expedia Is in No Hurry to Start Selling Vacation Rentals From HomeAway

Online Travel

Expedia Has Strong Q4 Thanks to its New Metasearch Business and Increased Bookings

Expedia's hotel business has momentum, and the acquisition of Trivago and its strategic marketing agreement with Travelocity are fueling the trend.

Expedia Has Strong Q4 Thanks to its New Metasearch Business and Increased Bookings

Online Travel

Google EU Antitrust Settlement Means Expedia, Booking.com and Yelp Get Equal Weight in Search

Kudos to the European Union for ensuring that Google doesn't wield its market power with excessive advantage in promoting its own services. The U.S. FTC's decision to avoid taking similar actions is a regulatory blemish, although the EU agreement could put more pressure on the FTC to take another look at these issues.

Google EU Antitrust Settlement Means Expedia, Booking.com and Yelp Get Equal Weight in Search

Online Travel

Business Travel App to Offer Mobile-Only Hotel Deals With Free Cancellations

Business travelers have always clamored for websites and apps that are as functional as those for leisure travelers. As testament to the further blending of business and leisure travel, Egencia is offering mobile-only hotel deals to satisfy the last-minute whims of road warriors.

Business Travel App to Offer Mobile-Only Hotel Deals With Free Cancellations

Online Travel

Hotwire Advertises Against Parent Expedia’s New Strategic Partner Travelocity

Expedia and Travelocity are now strategic partners, but they still will compete against each other to a certain extent. That's where Hotwire, an Expedia subsidiary, fits in. Hotwire is advertising to the world that its hotel deals are better than Travelocity's -- and, by extension, Expedia's. It's the travel industry. Get it?

Hotwire Advertises Against Parent Expedia’s New Strategic Partner Travelocity

Hotels

Booking Sites in the UK Just Got the OK to Offer Lower Room Rates Than Hotels

The UK's Office of Fair Trading has made the hotel industry a bit more competitive, but the new rules have their limits. Booking.com and Expedia aren't permitted to advertise discounted rooms to the general public, but will only do so for members of their loyalty programs and other closed groups. Still, it puts hotels at a disadvantage.

Booking Sites in the UK Just Got the OK to Offer Lower Room Rates Than Hotels

Hotels

Traxo Delivers Hotel Recommendations Based on a User’s Loyalty History

Whether Traxo is the company that ends up bringing personalized hotel recommendations to throngs of travelers or another company does it, this is where online and mobile travel is heading. The airlines are trying to do this, as well.

Traxo Delivers Hotel Recommendations Based on a User’s Loyalty History

Online Travel

Groupon Adds 20,000 Properties To Its Hotel Feature

Groupon is rounding out its hotel offering after having acquired same-night hotel app Blink last September. The whole thing is still a very niche product.

Groupon Adds 20,000 Properties To Its Hotel Feature