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Articles tagged “instant booking”

Online Travel

Ex-HomeAway Execs Hope Their Tours and Activities Startup Can Finally Break Through

OnceThere is trying to develop a robust private label business for tours and activities but in so doing it faces the challenge of having to split the revenue with partners in a sometimes-low margin business that's largely failed to live up to expectations.

Dan Peltier, Skift | 8 years ago

Ex-HomeAway Execs Hope Their Tours and Activities Startup Can Finally Break Through

Online Travel

TripAdvisor CEO Asks Investors to Wait a Year or Two for Instant Booking Improvements

TripAdvisor CEO Stephen Kaufer gets mystical about the company following "our North Star, navigating our path toward creating the best user experience in travel." Investors could care less about TripAdvisor journey toward the North Star as long as it means great returns on their investments, which ultimately is Kaufer's goal, as well.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 8 years ago

TripAdvisor CEO Asks Investors to Wait a Year or Two for Instant Booking Improvements

Online Travel

Exclusive: Major Hotel Chain Won Financial Protections in TripAdvisor Instant Booking

As TripAdvisor Instant Booking kicks into gear it appears as though it is breaking new ground and becoming a hotel-friendly channel -- for chains that sign up, that is. Chains such as Hilton Worldwide and InterContinental Hotels Group, which have not hopped on the bandwagon, can probably afford to sit on the sidelines for awhile to gauge how the whole thing shakes out.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 8 years ago

Exclusive: Major Hotel Chain Won Financial Protections in TripAdvisor Instant Booking

Online Travel

Challenges in Travel Booking 2016: TripAdvisor Isn’t Afraid of Google’s New Products

This likely will be a year of building out what TripAdvisor already has in hotel Instant Booking, vacation rentals and tours and activities. One big challenge will be how to focus effectively in so many huge areas simultaneously without some getting short shrift.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 8 years ago

Challenges in Travel Booking 2016: TripAdvisor Isn’t Afraid of Google’s New Products

Hotels

Starwood Joins New Sibling Marriott in TripAdvisor Instant Booking

Starwood's decision to follow Marriott into TripAdvisor Instant Booking begs the question: How long with InterContinental Hotels Group and Hilton Worldwide continue to be conscientious objectors? Hint: TripAdvisor officials say they are talking to everyone.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 8 years ago

Starwood Joins New Sibling Marriott in TripAdvisor Instant Booking

Online Travel

Expedia CEO Says TripAdvisor’s Booking Deal With Priceline Group Is Exclusive

TripAdvisor wanted to keep the details secret. But the price for finally getting the Priceline Group/Booking.com into TripAdvisor Instant Booking was playing the online travel agency exclusivity card. Expedia is shut out for now and can join later. Will Book on Google play a similar game?

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 8 years ago

Expedia CEO Says TripAdvisor’s Booking Deal With Priceline Group Is Exclusive

Hotels

Booking.com Goes Live on TripAdvisor Instant Booking With Pervasive Branding

As this TripAdvisor-Priceline Group partnership takes off, observe it closely because it signals a new stage in earnest in travel bookings -- the real emergence of third-party sites such as TripAdvisor and perhaps Google at some juncture that were primarily media sites as real forces in travel transactions.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 8 years ago

Booking.com Goes Live on TripAdvisor Instant Booking With Pervasive Branding

Online Travel

TripAdvisor Says It Doesn’t Need TV Ads Now, Thanks to Booking.com Partnership

TV advertising by online travel agencies has been very much in vogue over the last couple of years. But TripAdvisor decided it doesn't need it for now and instead is going to take its new partnership with Booking.com and run with that instead.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 8 years ago

TripAdvisor Says It Doesn’t Need TV Ads Now, Thanks to Booking.com Partnership

Online Travel

First Look at Trivago Express Booking Shows Sharp Contrast With TripAdvisor

Trivago is trying to develop a more partner-friendly booking flow than TripAdvisor has done with Instant Booking. But Trivago, which admittedly is still experimenting with its new features, still has ample consumer confusion to sort out.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 8 years ago

First Look at Trivago Express Booking Shows Sharp Contrast With TripAdvisor

Online Travel

Expedia’s Answer to TripAdvisor-Priceline Deal? Direct Hotel Booking on Trivago

Expedia is concerned that Booking.com's booking partnership with TripAdvisor will hurt Expedia traffic from TripAdvisor. Expedia's answer for now is Trivago taking hotel bookings. It's not a big answer for now, but it's a start. And Expedia might forge a booking partnership with Google in the future.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 8 years ago

Expedia’s Answer to TripAdvisor-Priceline Deal? Direct Hotel Booking on Trivago