Expedia News

Online Travel

Booking Boost at Expedia Leads to 52% Earnings Increase in Q2

Jason Clampet, Skift | 10 years ago

Online Travel

CEO Interview: GetYourGuide Funding Was Protection Against Bigger Players

With GetYourGuide's latest funding, making it the most heavily funded startup in the annals of tours and activities, a potential acquisition price just got racheted up. With TripAdvisor's acquisition of Viator, the market indeed is a "land grab" now for global expansion.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 10 years ago

Media and PR

Expedia Piggybacks on #TBT Social Media Trend for Summer Promotion

Expedia is showing off its marketing acumen by tapping into a popular social media trend that gets people talking about the brand and thinking about their own upcoming trips.

Samantha Shankman, Skift | 10 years ago

Online Travel

Top 10 Booking Site Sales Rankings Remain Remarkably Stable in 2013

Business travel-oriented companies, including American Express, Carlson Wagonlit Travel, BCD Travel and HRG, are not as large as leisure-oriented Expedia and Priceline, but the business travel agencies are entrenched near the top of the heap, and they aren't going anywhere in the short term.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 10 years ago

Online Travel

Expedia Gives Its Loyalty Program a Makeover

Expedia and Orbitz, which launched a rewards program in October 2013 geared to incentivize hotel bookings, are battling for consumer loyalties and competing against one another with these new programs.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 10 years ago

SkiftX

Expedia Takes Extraordinary Step of Denying eLong Sale Rumors

Expedia doesn't comment on rumors and speculation unless it is convenient or necessary to do so. It has done so regarding eLong sales rumors because Expedia has a long-term commitment to grow eLong in the highly competitive and strategic Chinese market.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 10 years ago

Online Travel

The Consolidation in the Online Travel Booking Space Over the Last Two Years

While it is exciting to see the consolidation happening in the online travel booking space, the lack of new scaled startups to challenge the biggies remains a worry for anyone. And possibly consumers as well.

Rafat Ali, Skift | 10 years ago

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Expedia Acquires Australia’s Wotif Group for $658 Million

While this seems like an opportunistic buy with Wotif's financial troubles, for Expedia this ties into two priorities: Expanding in Asia-Pacific and growing its global hotel business in competition with the Priceline Group's Booking.com and Agoda.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 10 years ago

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Expedia and Sabre Extend Their Already Deep Relationship

When Expedia gets around to talking about acquiring Travelocity outright, the relationship between Travelocity parent Sabre and Expedia is already so close they will have no problem getting their phone calls answered. Sabre is counting on such a sale, telling investors that it is guaranteed to increase shareholder value.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 10 years ago

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Expedia Acquires European Car-Rental Site Auto Escape Group

The merger and acquisition frenzy in the travel industry continues apace, and Expedia's acquisition of the Auto Escape Group will enhance Expedia's global competition with the Priceline Group.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 10 years ago