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Articles tagged “trip.com”

Online Travel

Travel Companies Are Hiring Despite Epic Job Losses

Amidst the carnage, there are job openings in the travel industry. However, many of the opportunities won't get rank-and-file restaurant or hospitality workers back collecting paychecks and benefits anytime soon.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 4 years ago

Travel Companies Are Hiring Despite Epic Job Losses

Coronavirus

Chinese Online Platforms View the Great Travel Recovery as a Drawn-Out Process

An unfortunate first-mover in the pandemic, China, in turn, got an early start on its travel recovery. But officials at major travel companies there view a robust bounce back as taking a year or longer — and much of that pace depends on how quickly coronavirus gets neutralized in the rest of the world.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 4 years ago

Coronavirus

Assessing the Coronavirus Damage to Online Travel: New Skift Research

The online travel industry is marginally better positioned to deal with this current outbreak than many of their suppliers in the hotel and airline industry. Still, the damage will get worse — and be severe and long-lasting.

Seth Borko, Skift Research | 4 years ago

Assessing the Coronavirus Damage to Online Travel: New Skift Research

Coronavirus

American Airlines’ Big Decision and 11 Other Coronavirus Travel Stories This Week

In our coronavirus coverage this week, American Airlines slashes international routes for the summer, indicating it doesn't think demand will come back any time in the short-run. Plus, Airbnb CEO apologizes to hosts in the form of a $260 million relief package. And Booking Holdings CEO Glenn Fogel is the first high-profile travel CEO to disclose he has contracted coronavirus.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 4 years ago

Online Travel

What’s Next for Trip.com Group as Coronavirus Crisis Subsides in China?

For Trip.com Group’s top leader, the message is clear. Countries around the world should not squander any chances to control the virus, and neither should the travel industry let a serious crisis go to waste by not seeking out new opportunities.

Xinyi Liang-Pholsena, Skift | 4 years ago

What’s Next for Trip.com Group as Coronavirus Crisis Subsides in China?

Tourism

Trip.com Group Expects 50 Percent Drop in First Quarter Revenue But Sees Some Local China Recovery

To hear that signs of recovery are in sight from China’s biggest travel firm is offering the battered tourism industry a glimmer of hope.

Xinyi Liang-Pholsena, Skift | 4 years ago

Trip.com Group Expects 50 Percent Drop in First Quarter Revenue But Sees Some Local China Recovery

Online Travel

The Most Important Story in Online Travel in 2019

Airbnb overtook Expedia in room nights booked in the first quarter of 2019, but questions loom for 2020. Will Airbnb lose its focus as it vows to go public and become a broader online travel agency? Will Expedia, which seems lost in terms of creating a revised strategy, find its way? So many headlines to come.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 4 years ago

The Most Important Story in Online Travel in 2019

Tourism

Singapore’s New Hotel Automation Stokes Big Brother Image

A new system that enables the sharing of guest data between hotels and the authorities is meant to increase productivity at hotels. Really? Better communication is needed.

Raini Hamdi, Skift | 4 years ago

Singapore’s New Hotel Automation Stokes Big Brother Image

Online Travel

EDreams Adds Hotels to Prime Subscription Scheme

EDreams is certainly putting a lot of effort into its Prime subscription offering. The test will be how it goes down in other markets and how it performs over a number of years. Do the numbers stack up over the long term and will people keep renewing?

Patrick Whyte, Skift | 4 years ago

EDreams Adds Hotels to Prime Subscription Scheme

Mergers and Acquisitions

TripAdvisor and Ctrip Enter Into Chinese Joint Venture and Global Licensing Agreement

The TripAdvisor-Trip.com Group deal is both a shocker and a non-shocker. When Ctrip decided to change the parent company name to Trip.com Group, you could see a certain affinity with the TripAdvisor brand. On the other hand, Booking Holdings has been Ctrip's longtime best friend in China.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 5 years ago

TripAdvisor and Ctrip Enter Into Chinese Joint Venture and Global Licensing Agreement