Articles tagged “priceline”

Airbnb, with its roughly $24.5 billion valuation, would likely be too big for most of the online travel agencies to acquire but if they are forced to enter the sharing economy in a bigger way several years from now they always have the resources to buy their way in.

There could be less than meets the eye in the new Kayak-HomeAway partnership. But even if that were true it wouldn't soften the speculation about a blockbuster deal for HomeAway.

There's something to remaining a private travel company, not to mention one of the world's largest, like The Travel Corporation. The company is private and profitable and gets more freedom and flexibility than public companies that have to answer to shareholders every quarter.

Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi couldn't have been more vehement in recent months about his company's long-term investment in and commitment to eLong. Well, there goes that.

Matching future travel dates with options that are price or value conscious is key to personalizing travelers' mobile experience.

Higher gas prices don't seem to be worrying travelers and it looks like summer travel will do well on its important first seasonal test as hotel stays this Memorial Day shape up to be more expensive than last year.

The Priceline Group is adding pieces to its new B2B hotel technology division, which it expects will be a substantial business eventually.

There are really never any absolutes in travel or in life but Priceline Group CEO Darren Huston feels confident that we'll never get to an app-only world. The desktop and mobile Web will live on, at least until Al Gore invents the next big thing.

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.

Booking.com's focus on hotels plus TV and online advertising, which gets more guests into those hotels, is obviously paying off.