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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’s Updated Tablet Apps Streamline Hotel and Flight Search in Single View

Why didn't someone think of this before? (Perhaps someone did.) It isn't the end-all, be-all in travel search, but it is a step ahead in ease of use.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 10 years ago

Expedia’s Updated Tablet Apps Streamline Hotel and Flight Search in Single View

Online Travel

Interview: MakeMyTrip CEO on Keeping Bookers on Smartphones

Rather than working on making it easier for Indian travelers to transition easily between various devices, MakeMyTrip is focusing on keeping consumers on smartphones, and solving the clunkiness of the payment process on mobile. It's a bet that is India-specific, but might be instructive for some other parts of the developing world.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 10 years ago

Interview: MakeMyTrip CEO on Keeping Bookers on Smartphones

Online Travel

Interview: Expedia’s CEO on the Transformation of Travel Booking

Booking.com is a big-time leader in travel marketing through Google, and Expedia spends a ton of money on search engine marketing, too. While both companies are committed to this type of "pull" marketing, Expedia is making a big bet on multi-device search and "push" notifications as the future of travel booking.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 10 years ago

Interview: Expedia’s CEO on the Transformation of Travel Booking

Airlines

Travel CEOs Take On the Ice Bucket Challenge

Online travel and airline CEOs love it when their companies' advertisements go viral, and they can only pour ice water over their heads, dry off, and admire how the ALS Association has crowd-funded its cause.

Dan Peltier, Skift | 10 years ago

Travel CEOs Take On the Ice Bucket Challenge

Hotels

Expedia’s eLong Has Huge Ambitions and An Uphill Climb

Profitability isn't a concern right now as Expedia's eLong invests in expanding its hotel business, and it is in the game for the long haul.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 10 years ago

Online Travel

Chinese Booking Site Qunar Says It Doesn’t Need Foreign Strategic Ally

Qunar is already partnered up with the Google of China, Baidu, and will differentiate itself from Expedia's eLong and the Priceline-Ctrip partnership by eschewing investment from a foreign online travel agency -- for now, at least.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 10 years ago

Online Travel

Travelocity is a Huge Success for Expedia and Orbitz

Orbitz Worldwide paid $10 million to acquire the Travelocity Partner Network in late February 2014 and would pay an additional $10 million if the affiliate network hits certain performance targets this year and in 2015. This is a nice acquisition for Orbitz Worldwide because the private label sector was already an important part of its business.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 10 years ago

Travelocity is a Huge Success for Expedia and Orbitz

Online Travel

The Biggest Cliche in Travel Companies’ Business Models

Claims of an unyielding network effect are often so much hot air such as when Expedia claims that it has "mutually beneficial supply agreements" that reinforce its global marketplace. Still, when companies such as TripAdvisor, which attracts more than 100 user reviews and ratings per minute, truly achieve a network effect, their growth can be exponential.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 10 years ago

The Biggest Cliche in Travel Companies’ Business Models

Online Travel

Expedia Won’t Help TripAdvisor With Its Booking Problems

What a difference a couple of years makes. No longer sister companies, Expedia doesn't want to participate in TripAdvisor Instant Booking, and declines to do anything to help the brand that it is competing with, along with Booking.com, on TV in their competing commercials.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 10 years ago

Expedia Won’t Help TripAdvisor With Its Booking Problems

Online Travel

Expedia Will Try to Capitalize on Priceline’s and TripAdvisor’s M&A Distractions

Expedia's strategy is worth a shot: Focus on hotels and other core products while competitors the Priceline Group and TripAdvisor play around with restaurant reservations, and tours and activities. If Expedia sticks to its focus-on-what-we-got strategy, it is a huge gamble.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 10 years ago

Expedia Will Try to Capitalize on Priceline’s and TripAdvisor’s M&A Distractions