Articles tagged “orbitz”

Orbitz Rewards members aren't going to get huge savings initially, but they will be getting something right away. Whether this will be enough to be a meaningful boost to Orbitz's hotel ambitions remains to be seen.

Under the partnership, Orbitz passed customers' credit card information to Trilegiant without notifying consumers. Orbitz terminated the practice starting in 2008, but a judge says Orbitz still has to make the payments that the contract called for.

How long will it be before we talk about travel websites as always having an essential, if limited place, in much the same way that we sometimes talk about print guidebooks? Smartphones with bigger screens, tablets of mini and maximum dimensions ... buckle your seatbelts.

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.

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.

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.

Giving the head of your international businesses a monetary incentive to improve their performance is just plain old capitalism and a bow to human nature.

Orbitz, like all brands living online today, is tasked with producing creative original content to share via social media. In this case, it seems they’ve been more than happy to hand that responsibility over to a travel personality.