Articles tagged “priceline”

A changing of the guard at Hotwire was inevitable given the challenges it has faced all year due to Priceline's advertising and overall gains. Hotwire's own advertising wasn't effective enough to blunt the onslaught.

Rentalcars.com won't bring in the mega wealth that Booking.com has done because of the disparate nature of the car and hotel businesses. But, there is a whole wide world out there, and Rentalcars.com, with Priceline's resources and experience at its disposal, has the potential to be a huge player on the global stage.

Frontier may have discovered that its attempt to get more direct purchases wasn't worth lost business from customers turned off by the $100 baggage charge, or it may hope to score popularity points by bucking the extra-fees trend. Either way, this is a win for Priceline, which now boasts one more reason to book through its site instead of the airline's.

Priceline's new homepage is a lot prettier than its immediate predecessor. No, William Shatner isn't pretty, but he and Kaley Cuoco accomplish Priceline's goals of touting its Hotwire-like product, Express Deals, as bidding gets shuffled to the background.

Tourism expanded globally, airlines and rental car companies faced consolidation, guidebook brands were sold off, and travel tech got better: We don't expect these major stories to disappear in the next year and plan on covering where they lead us just as carefully.

Priceline, Orbitz and Expedia may be taking the easy way out by not showing itineraries for any flights to Iran, even those operated by airlines with no blood on their hands, but that's doing a disservice to travelers who want to get there.

Priceline's iPad app reduces potential confusion about its panalopy of hotel services. Just tap on a services, such as Express Deals or Name Your Own Price, and you're in.

Suppliers, namely airlines, hotels, a cruise line and a car rental company, clearly dominate the top 15. Priceline and Amadeus are the only middlemen represented.

If you thought Priceline was the largest publicly traded travel company in the world by market cap, you'd be very wrong. Two Taiwanese airlines and a global hotel and casino business boast greater bragging rights.