Articles tagged “online travel agencies”

Slack is becoming the messaging app of choice for modern work teams, and these nascent travel services are just the start. Expect more established business travel related services and new Slack-native services to crop up in coming months.

Both Expedia and Booking.com know that business travelers having been booking travel on their sites for years. Now both companies are going after small businesses and their employees in a more-organized way.

The state of online travel in Europe is healthy and still growing, especially as some of the eastern European countries are still in relatively early phases of growth.

As hotels seek to increase their direct bookings, the time has come to rethink the way to approach metasearch.

Barring a reversal in market conditions, buckle up because 2015 is looking like it will be a very active year in mergers and acquisitions among online travel companies.

In the era of uber-connectivity and seamless Internet browsing, we’ve become a culture of virtual window shoppers. This is especially true when it comes to online travel, where shopping cart…

In the end, the way things are going, airlines will become hotels, and hotels will become airlines. Taxis will become Ubers, and Ubers will become taxis. Convergence, baby.

A smart look at the factors, including the rush toward direct bookings, that are shaping the entire metasearch sector in 2015.

When Huston took over as CEO of the Priceline Group 13 months ago, a financial analyst told us that Huston would play it safe and not make any bold moves in his first year at the helm because he needed to assure Wall Street about his leadership. Boy, was that analyst wrong.

You are, therefore you book. From maps to mobile and wearables, booking becomes ubiquitous, ever-present.