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Articles tagged “travelocity”

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Analysis: It’s Expedia Against Everyone Else After Orbitz and Travelocity Deals

Expedia, Travelocity, Orbitz, CheapTickets, Hotels.com, Hotwire, and Trivago -- they would all belong to Expedia Inc. if this Expedia-Orbitz deal gets approved by regulators. It's nice to be king -- although Priceline and Booking.com may have something to say about that.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 9 years ago

Analysis: It’s Expedia Against Everyone Else After Orbitz and Travelocity Deals

Announcements

Megatrends 2015: The Online Travel Duopoly Won’t Reign Forever

It would be prudent for the established leaders in online travel not to get over-confident. They are going to have to work extremely hard to maintain their positions, which will undoubtedly be altered

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 9 years ago

Megatrends 2015: The Online Travel Duopoly Won’t Reign Forever

Online Travel

Expedia Is Not Worried About the Sharing Economy and HomeAway for Now

The Priceline Group can acquire a restaurant reservations platform in OpenTable and add tons of vacation rentals to its Booking.com unit, but Expedia Inc. plans on sticking with its guns and focusing on the hotel business. Will that focus win out? Expedia certainly has been making strides, but this is still the beginning of the beginning.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 9 years ago

Expedia Is Not Worried About the Sharing Economy and HomeAway for Now

Online Travel

Expedia Accelerated Room Night Growth in the Fourth Quarter

After years of struggling, Expedia Inc. is executing well and gaining market share around the world.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 9 years ago

Expedia Accelerated Room Night Growth in the Fourth Quarter

Online Travel

What Happens to the Travelocity Brand Under Expedia Ownership?

The Roaming Gnome himself whispers to us that he is very happy about the Expedia acquisition of Travelocity. It was touch and go under Sabre ownership for such a long time as Sabre, with priorities elsewhere, totally bungled ownership of Travelocity and Lastminute.com.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 9 years ago

What Happens to the Travelocity Brand Under Expedia Ownership?

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Expedia Acquires Travelocity for $280 Million

Expedia is expected to retain the Travelocity brand. It would be foolish not to because the whole value proposition is to tap into the allegiances of Travelocity loyalists. And that leaves Orbitz out in the cold. It is unable to achieve scale and Expedia and the Priceline Group are apparently not interested in scooping Orbitz up.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 9 years ago

Expedia Acquires Travelocity for $280 Million

Media and PR

Orbitz Gives In, Hires Bankers to Find a Buyer

Orbitz Worldwide is putting itself up for sale, and the leak to Bloomberg may be a signal that the bidding hasn't been particularly robust to date.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 9 years ago

Orbitz Gives In, Hires Bankers to Find a Buyer

Online Travel

Expedia Closing in on Acquisition of Travelocity From Sabre

Barring complications, it looks like Travelocity will become the newest Expedia Inc. brand fairly soon.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 9 years ago

Expedia Closing in on Acquisition of Travelocity From Sabre

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Bravofly to Acquire Lastminute.com for $120 Million

Sabre acquired the once-proud brand, Lastminute.com, for nearly $1.2 billion in 2005 -- and now is selling it for about one-tenth of the initial acquisition cost. Sabre bungled the Lastminute.com acquisition and integration and now it is finally unloading the company after years of trying so Sabre can get rid of a profit drain and focus on its core businesses.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 9 years ago

Bravofly to Acquire Lastminute.com for $120 Million

Online Travel

Skift Forum Video: Travelocity Founder Terry Jones on the Next Big Thing in Booking

Jones is now headed into a territory where few have survived, but if anyone is prepared it is he.

Jason Clampet, Skift | 9 years ago

Skift Forum Video: Travelocity Founder Terry Jones on the Next Big Thing in Booking