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Articles tagged “priceline”

Online Travel

Tonight-only hotel deals start a smartphone app arms race, but who does it best?

Everyone wants a little chunk of the last-minute business. It's going to come down to who makes it easiest to find what a user wants with the least number of taps on the smartphone.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 12 years ago

Airlines

Priceline: Get ready for higher holiday fares, thanks to lower capacity

Plan ahead, be prepared, scheme accordingly. Airfares have become a contact sport, thanks to lower capacity and higher yield play by domestic U.S. airlines

Skift | 12 years ago

Travel Technology

Priceline adds its travel deals to mobile platforms

Priceline was one of the first booking sites a couple of years ago to point to the new booking pattern: mobile users booking hotels while in-destination. Express Deals are a logical extension to its mobile platforms.

Ellen Creager, Detroit Free Press | 12 years ago

Skift Originals

Mobile users find the best rates on Priceline’s Tonight-Only Deals on Thursdays

In less than a year Priceline's act-now deal app has quintupled in destinations. Even better for users is the savings they're seeing booking via mobile as opposed to published rates on Prineline's website.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 12 years ago

Skift Originals

Priceline’s CEO says people looking to book online just love to shop

Boyd of Priceline understands all too well that travelers are driven to shop and compare prices, and that hotel rates change so fast and are so complex that there is always the opportunity to find a deal.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 12 years ago

Priceline’s CEO says people looking to book online just love to shop

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

Media and PR

SkiftAds: William Shatner’s Negotiator returns to Priceline’s advertisements

Like Travelocity's gnome, it's hard to imagine the Priceline brand without a little bit of Shatner. Any website can offer a travel deal, but can they do it with over-the-top acting?

Lynn Elber, Associated Press | 12 years ago

Skift Originals

Booking.com goes on the offensive against UK rate-fixing allegations

The provisional decision in the UK about hotels' and OTAs' pricing practices is a shot heard round the world. If other countries pile on, the dollars at stake would be huge.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 12 years ago

Travel Booking

Online travel agency stock fall on bad results, global slowdown

OTAs are mirroring global macro trends, but are also hurting as airlines cut back on capacity to cut costs.

Associated Press | 12 years ago

Skift Originals

Priceline names its own challenges as discounting and mobile competition heat up

Priceline has stated for months that its growth rates would inevitably decline given the size of its business, and Expedia is apparently making some gains, too -- at least domestically.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 12 years ago