Articles tagged “hotels.com”

This isn't a new loyalty program for Hotels.com, but a double-edged feature that may be attractive. The former book 10 nights and get one night free was very popular, but likely too expensive for the company.

Expedia Group's consumer brands aren't firing on all cylinders. It's a priority to rev them up.

Google Hotels is still strong, but weakened by the Digital Markets Act — and Google's own AI Overviews. Agentic AI may one day make the changes we've seen to date under the DMA a mere footnote in the evolution of travel search.

The United-JetBlue alliance is just that, and not an acquisition. Still, as with such transitions, it brings substantial changes to United.com's non-air partnership roster.

For today’s pod we look at some really big AI announcements by Google and a smaller one by Hotels.com. We also look at the stocks members of the U.S. congress are trading.

The Hotels.com app is integrated with the chatbot in a simplistic way that makes it easy to use, but the errors don't help to set it apart.

The decline in interest in visiting the U.S. is real - and we're seeing it in Expedia's results.

Expedia is trying to get the right blend of layoffs and hirings to get its operations moving — fast.

Expedia Group's initial goal of democratizing loyalty programs through One Key apparently ran into financial realities.

Depending on the fine print, Vrbo giving vacation rental property managers more flexibility in how they run their businesses can't be a bad thing.