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After AirAsia, Expedia Now Partners With South African Airways
Expedia (NASDAQ:EXPE) recently announced a private-label partnership with South African Airways (SAA), the leading airline carrier in Africa. This follows a trend of online travel agencies offering hotel bookings on airlines’ websites, and now Ex...
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Expedia Partners With AirAsia
Expedia (NASDAQ:EXPE), the world’s largest online travel agency, recently announced an alliance with AirAsia to sell flights, hotel bookings and holiday packages in South-East Asia, the world’s fastest growing aviation and tourism market which is...
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Expedia’s Game Plan for the Indian Travel Market
Expedia (NASDAQ:EXPE), the largest online travel portal came to India almost two years ago and now plans to scale up its India operations. This is a follow up note to one we published earlier this week that discussed why India is an attractive ma...
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What Brings Expedia To India?
Gone are the days when travel in India primarily referred to inbound tourists to the Taj Mahal and to palaces in Rajasthan. The increasingly affluent Indian middle class is now packing its bags and heading out on international holidays. Expedia ...
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Expedia Shareholders Should Cheer the TripAdvisor Spin-Off
Expedia (NASDAQ:EXPE), which competes with Priceline (NASDAQ:PCLN) and Kayak in the online travel industry, announced its plans to spin-off its media and advertising business arm TripAdvisor into a separate publically traded company.
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Air Travel Bookings Add Little to Priceline
Though Priceline (NASDAQ:PCLN) is one of the few names people think for online travel services along with competitors Expedia (NASDAQ;EXPE), Travelocity, and Orbitz (NASDAQ:OWW), air travel bookings make up less than 2% of our $479 Trefis price e...
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Expedia’s Stock Value Threatened by New Social Network for Travelers
Expedia (NASDAQ:EXPE) could be facing a very serious threat to its business, although not from the usual suspects like Priceline (NASDAQ:PCLN) or Kayak . This time, it comes in the form of a new social network for travelers, Gogobot.. Still in t...
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Expedia Likely to Take a Hit in Japan
The leading online travel agency, Expedia (NASDAQ:EXPE) draws almost 41% of its business from outside of the U.S. Expedia had started to rely heavily on the growth opportunities internationally, particularly in Asia Pacific similar to peers Price...
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Bing Travel’s New Features Step on Google and Expedia’s Toes
Microsoft’s (NASDAQ:MSFT) Bing has recently added a new feature called Price Predictors to its travel searches, which automatically suggest flights based on the best air fares and suggests if you should buy now or hold off for a better fare based...
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We See Expedia as a $29 Stock Despite Margin Concerns
Expedia ’s (NASDAQ:EXPE) stock took a hit in the markets dropping almost 17% on the release of its FY 2010 earnings on February 10. The response was largely on account of the overall decline in the company’s EBITDA margin from over 32% in 2009 to...
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Improving Hotel Occupancy Levels Spell Upside for Priceline’s Stock
Priceline.com (NASDAQ:PCLN) mainly competes with Expedia (NASDAQ:EXPE), Travelocity and Orbitz (NYSE:OWW) in online travel services like bookings for air tickets, hotel stays and car rentals. Priceline recently released its Q4 2010 results. Two h...
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Competition from OTAs & Hotels May Erode Expedia’s Revenue Margin on Hotel Bookings
Expedia’s (NASDAQ:EXPE) revenue margin on hotel bookings (calculated as a percentage of total hotel bookings) made through its various websites (Expedia.com, Hotels.com, Hotwire.com) increased from 23% in 2007 to above 25% in 2009 due to de...
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Expanded Offerings on Air Carrier Websites Pose a Threat to Online Travel Agencies
In an attempt to draw bookings from third-party distributors, U.S. airlines have been revamping their websites with a more user-friendly interface and are adding additional features like luggage pick-up and specialty snacks (at a price) beyond th...
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Launch of Trefis Coverage on Expedia – Stock Sensitivity to Advertising Revenues
Expedia (NASDAQ:EXPE) is the world’s leading online travel agency in terms of booking volumes, operating a variety of travel portals such as expedia.com, hotels.com and hotwire.com. Customers can research and purchase air tickets, hotel sta...
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Launch of Trefis Coverage on Priceline – Stock Sensitivity to Hotel Bookings Market Share
Priceline (NASDAQ:PCLN) is one of the leading online travel agencies offering consumers a wide range of travel services including bookings for hotel stays, airline tickets, car rentals, cruises and vacation packages. Priceline is the second large...
