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Articles tagged “getyourguide”

Travel Booking

Expedia Gives GetYourGuide Big Lift and 9 Other Travel Stories This Week

In big travel news this week, Skift looked Expedia partnering with GetYourGuide to help give it a big U.S. presence, four airlines that made more on ancillaries than ticket sales in 2020, and what the retirement of longtime CEO David Kong means for the future of Best Western.

Tom Lowry | 3 years ago

Expedia Gives GetYourGuide Big Lift and 9 Other Travel Stories This Week

Online Travel

Google’s Ticketing for Attractions Off to Rough Start

Google's attractions ticket beta has been among its least elegant in travel to date. This has angered many tour operators because it couldn't have come at a more inopportune time.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 3 years ago

Google’s Ticketing for Attractions Off to Rough Start

Business Travel

Expedia Partners With GetYourGuide on Tours and Activities in a Blow to Viator

GetYourGuide, which has been trying to break into the U.S., scored a major partnership by securing a deal with Expedia.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 3 years ago

Expedia Partners With GetYourGuide on Tours and Activities in a Blow to Viator

Online Travel

Google Launches Attractions Tickets Globally on Mobile

Eventually, Google's new Tickets feature may turn out to be one of the most important developments in a long time for the tours and activities sector. Google will certainly move to monetize the feature with paid ads, and it will ultimately expand to tours, and other products, too.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 3 years ago

Google Launches Attractions Tickets Globally on Mobile

Online Travel

Marriott’s Arne Sorenson Upended Travel Distribution

Arne Sorenson was a maverick in his own way. He quietly visited Airbnb headquarters in 2014 to get a better understanding of short-term rentals, which culminated in Marriott's Homes & Villas. And he found a way to have a mutually beneficial relationship with those "evil" online travel agencies.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 3 years ago

Marriott’s Arne Sorenson Upended Travel Distribution

Online Travel

GetYourGuide’s Latest Financial Moves Hint at Future Acquisitions

Reading in between the lines, it seems like the Berlin-based online travel agency is hoping to make an acquisition or minority investment, most likely one that would expand its product portfolio such as for its white-labeled "originals" experiences.

Sean O'Neill, Skift | 3 years ago

GetYourGuide’s Latest Financial Moves Hint at Future Acquisitions

Business Travel

TUI Musement Emerges as a Tours and Activities Player in Europe in Shadow of GetYourGuide

Will it suffice for TUI Musement to focus on the partnership side of its business, as it does with Booking.com and major cruise lines, or does it need to master the uphill task of becoming a breakout consumer brand beyond TUI's existing customer base? Acquisitions could be part of the mix when the pandemic dust settles.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 3 years ago

TUI Musement Emerges as a Tours and Activities Player in Europe in Shadow of GetYourGuide

Online Travel

CEO of GetYourGuide Concedes It Had Its Own Google-Like Bias Issue

When GetYourGuide criticized Google for promoting an uneven competitive playing field, some GetYourGuide partners accused GetYourGuide of similar transgressions in the way it markets its Originals tours. GetYourGuide vowed to make amends, the results of which will only become clear in a few months.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 3 years ago

Online Travel

GetYourGuide Grabs $134 Million Loan for Experiences Bookings: Travel Startup Funding This Week

Ten travel startups collectively announced more than $167 million in funding lately. Concepts included the online booking of tour guides, tour packages, Vietnamese domestic travel, Indian hotels, and e-visas.

Sean O'Neill, Skift | 3 years ago

GetYourGuide Grabs $134 Million Loan for Experiences Bookings: Travel Startup Funding This Week

Hotels

Hyatt’s Potential Defections and 12 Other Top Travel Stories This Week

In Skift's top stories this week, we covered Sonesta's rapid growth at the expense of Marriott and IHG, Asia's travel recovery, AirAsia's digital transformation, and Southwest's business travel strategy, among others.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 4 years ago

Hyatt’s Potential Defections and 12 Other Top Travel Stories This Week