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Articles tagged “hotwire”

Airlines

Hotwire launches airfare price-drop site in race to the bottom

It's deal-time 24/7 in the world of online and mobile travel. There's nothing particularly wrong with that, although it would be nice to see some originality. It's like a commercial AT&T is currently airing, when the kids in it implore, "We want more, we want more."

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 11 years ago

Hotwire launches airfare price-drop site in race to the bottom

Ground Transport

Shatner and Priceline put pressure on Hotwire as parent Expedia’s Q1 net loss widens

Things have come full circle in the decade-long Priceline-Hotwire skirmish. Over the last couple of years, Priceline officials conceded that Hotwire was taking share from Priceline's Name Your Own Price business, which has been de-emphasized. Now Expedia execs say Priceline's Express Deals have been eating Hotwire's lunch.

Dennis Schaal , Skift | 11 years ago

Shatner and Priceline put pressure on Hotwire as parent Expedia’s Q1 net loss widens

Online Travel

Hotwire and TripIt co-founder Brockway launches furniture marketplace

Brockway will likely find out that his flirtation with a business outside the travel industry was a flight of fancy. We like his criteria for starting a new business though -- think big.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 11 years ago

Hotwire and TripIt co-founder Brockway launches furniture marketplace

Online Travel

Many working Americans will have 9 unused paid vacation days left at the end of this year

Hotwire suggests that employees take advantage of deals between Thanksgiving and Christmas, but a bigger question is how the industry can encourage them to take breaks earlier in the year.

eTurboNews | 11 years ago

Many working Americans will have 9 unused paid vacation days left at the end of this year

Tourism

Romney loses again: More Americans choose President Obama as their travel companion

Is it possible that this survey, administered before November 6, could have been used to predict the final winner?

Samantha Shankman, Skift | 11 years ago

Hotels

U.S hotel room prices rose during the first half of 2012, led by California and Hawaii

Almost all the growth is driven by double-digit increases in San Francisco, Monterrey, Santa Barbara, and Honolulu. Otherwise the numbers along each coast are relatively similar.

Skift | 12 years ago

Hotels

Hotwire.com says European hotel rates are lowest they’ve been in five years

Weak economies, an excess of rooms left empty after the Olympics, and seasonal slowdown means trouble for Europe's tourism industry -- but great rates for off-season travelers. Go now.

Chris Erskine, Los Angeles Times | 12 years ago

Hotwire.com says European hotel rates are lowest they’ve been in five years

Hotels

Hotwire’s president says Priceline’s new Express Deals look pretty familiar

Hotwire indeed has been taking share from Priceline in the U.S. Hotwire is coming very late to Europe and Asia-Pacific, and can't be assured of success there.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 12 years ago

Hotwire’s president says Priceline’s new Express Deals look pretty familiar

Hotels

Hotwire to shut Travel Ticker deals newsletter and website

It's hard to believe that Travel Ticker was merely a victim of Hotwire's international expansion plans. If the opaque travel market, where Hotwire plays, is getting very crowded, the deals newsletter space is getting even more so.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 12 years ago

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The top 10 cities that Americans are traveling to this Labor Day Weekend

The list has shifted as travelers are now choosing cheaper destinations, but some citizens are still willing to pay top dollar to spend the American holiday in iconic cities like New York and Chicago.

Skift | 12 years ago