Priceline Vs. Expedia: By the Numbers in First Quarter 2015
Skift Take
Priceline trounced Expedia in hotel room nights booked in the first quarter but Expedia is growing its still-smaller roster of hotels at a faster rate. This should continue to be a very interesting race over the next few years.
In the ongoing turf battles between the Priceline Group and Expedia Inc. during the first quarter of 2015 it was clear that Priceline is a substantially larger and more impactful company globally in terms of hotel bookings.
But Expedia, pumped up by acquisitions, is growing its smaller number of properties and its room nights booked at a faster pace.
The Priceline Group, including Booking.com, Agoda, Priceline.com, and Kayak, booked many more room nights (104.6 million versus 47.6 million) in the first quarter than did Expedia companies, including Expedia.com, Hotels.com, Venere and Hotwire.
But Expedia's room nights, albeit from a lower base, grew faster (32 percent) than Priceline's (25.4 percent). Expedia's acquisition of Wotif in Australia and its acquisition/consolidation of Exp
