Booking Holdings Expects Record Summer and More AI Testing

Photo Credit: Glenn Fogel, CEO of Booking Holdings, pictured here speaking at Skift Global Forum in September 2022 in New York, is keen on more tech investment. Skift / Neil van Niekerk
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Despite talk of economic uncertainly going on two years, Booking Holdings' results – and forecast – indicate travelers still aren't slowing down.
Booking Holdings said it completed a record number of bookings last quarter, the start to what’s expected to be its best summer ever.
The online travel company completed $39.7 billion worth of bookings last quarter, a 15% increase from the year before, said CEO Glenn Fogel during an earnings call Thursday evening.
Booking Holdings owns online travel booking sites Booking.com, Priceline, Kayak, Agoda, OpenTable, and others.
Gross bookings and hotel bookings both came in ahead of what the company had expected. And Fogel estim