Articles tagged “orbitz”

The author points out an often-overlooked fact that Priceline/Booking.com may now be putting pressure on Expedia and Orbitz in a mature market, the U.S., with the Booking.com advertising campaign that began earlier this year. Hotwire is already engaged in an offline advertising blitz to answer Priceline's inroads, and Booking.com's campaign makes things even testier.

Obitz's much-hyped deal to power the American Express consumer travel site contributed to first quarter growth, but it looks like it isn't turning out to be the bulldozer that Orbitz anticipated.

Blackstone saddled Travelport and Orbitz Worldwide with tremendous debt, and greatly restricted Orbitz's freedom to maneuver. There have to be some champagne corks popping this weeks as Orbitz has a chance to taste some freedom.

American’s agreement with Orbitz is the third and last settlement in a lawsuit filed by the airline claiming that the OTA, alongside Sabre and Travelport, were guilty of anticompetitive practices.

Online travel agencies now owe Hawaii a huge bill to comply with the state's general excise tax, and Hawaii hasn't even won the battle over hotel occupancy taxes yet. Hawaii, which is such a rich vacation market for the OTAs, is giving them a big migraine.

Consumers have more options than ever before from fresh-faced startups to familiar search engines so despite OTAs’ legacy in the industry, they’ll have to keep innovating to keep up with the competition.

Randofli hopefully will bring some stability to the Orbitz CFO operation. The company doesn't need any more diversions.

Orbitz had a grand vision that the Away network would add rich, inspirational content in multiple sectors that could drive transactions. That didn't happen.

It's tough to build your hotel business by laying off hotel-market managers. Still, having the dough to conduct more hotel marketing is mandatory if the company is to compete.