Articles tagged “online travel agencies”

In the perpetual tug of war between airlines and online middlemen, a bit of turnabout is fair play.

The global tourism recovery is starting, but the Australian travel agency that came to be 40 years ago on airline bookings feels left out, being stuck with carriers reducing their commissions and a population still reluctant to book overseas vacations like they did in 2019.

A public company, HomeToGo is still very small. However, in metasearch, albeit for short-term rentals, it is going places where larger rivals were unsuccessful.

Kyte wants to simplify car rentals, while yet another short-term rental platform, this time in Germany, raises millions.

The short booking travel booking windows that became the predominant mode of booking in the pandemic -- for obvious reasons with lots of uncertainty around Covid & travel plan --…

Busbud, an online marketplace for bus and other ground transport tickets, is now offering more software services to operators in that industry following a company acquisition. 

China’s Trip.com has struck two new partnerships, covering the UK and Asia Pacific, to give customers the opportunity to delay or spread out payments for their purchases.

Airbnb said that the flexible search features it has rolled out since early 2021 have so far diverted bookings from destinations coping with overtourism and peak travel times, according to…

The online travel agent is playing the long game when it comes to onboarding as many long-term value customers as possible, turning them into members and eventually putting them onto its loyalty program. CEO Peter Kern is clearly a patient man.

CEO Glenn Fogel is focused on making Booking Holdings apps easier for consumers to use. Apparently he's doing something right.