Capital A Eyes U.S. and Hong Kong Listing, Names New Deputy CEO
Malaysia’s Capital A is strengthening its management team as it exits PN17, tees up dual listings, and scales five businesses all at once.
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OpenAI’s Next Advertising Step
Online travel agencies have spent billions on legacy search. Can OpenAI capture a share of this business?
Tripadvisor and Starboard Value Make Peace: Activist Investor Could Get 4 Board Seats
Get ready for sales of Viator and/or TheFork — or at least attempts to sell them. Alternately, you also can't rule out a sale or merger of the entire company.
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Travel’s AI Future Is in the Missing Middle
The real AI battle in travel isn't booking — it's what comes before.
Tripadvisor Board Chair Greg Maffei to Step Down With Activist Investor in the Wings
Liberty's giving up voting control over Tripadvisor was the end of an era. The departure of Greg Maffei — with Starboard Value making a push to control the board — puts an exclamation point on it.
Travel’s Most Celebrated Number Is Its Most Meaningless
The travel industry celebrates loyalty member counts the way it celebrates sustainability commitments: loudly, frequently, and with very little evidence the numbers have changed anything.
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Capital One Travel Bets on Its Future
Capital One Travel liked Hopper's tools and people so much it's taking many of them in house.
Capital One to Make ‘Payout’ to Acquire the Hopper Tech and Employees that Built Its Travel Portal
It will soon be independence day for Capital One Travel, and Hopper adds to its own challenges.
MakeMyTrip Eyes an IPO in India
MakeMyTrip has long been seen as a likely candidate for an India listing, but the company had never explicitly said so. Its latest filing finally puts that possibility on record, signaling that India’s booming capital markets may soon attract one of the country’s biggest travel platforms back home.
Who Owns the Customer When OTA Clients Try to Rebook a Flight During the Iran War
Online travel agencies and suppliers have more flexible rebooking and refund policies during the Iran war than during the pandemic. But with the volume of customer support requests, customers sometimes don't get the assistance they deserve.