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This Is How Airbnb Is Gradually Becoming A Direct Competitor For The Leading OTAs
Priceline’s restaurant booking website, OpenTable, will now face a new competitor. Airbnb, in its endeavors to eventually become a full service travel-booking company, is now set to launch its own restaurant booking platform . The Airbnb we...
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Why Did Expedia’s CEO Recently Join Uber?
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Expedia’s Investments Are Reaping Benefits While The Company Displayed Steady Growth In Q2
Trivago (Expedia’s metasearch arm where it has a majority stake) is one of the fastest growing metasearch platforms. After going public last year, in Q1 2017, Trivago registered a 62% Y-o-Y growth in its revenues to $286 million whil...
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Though Short Term Profitability Might Remain Dampened, Expedia’s Focus On Expanding Services And Geographical Presence Might Generate Long Term Growth
Expedia is slated to release its Q2 2017 earnings on July 27th. After delivering a strong 2016 with over 30% growth in its top line and nearly 40% growth in EBITDA, the company had decided to invest more on its products and marketing in 2017 to g...
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Why Are The Regulatory Bodies Stepping Up To Curb The Growing Influence Of OTAs And What Might Be The Implications?
In a recent analysis, we showed how hotels are getting increasingly agitated with the rising commissions posed to them by online booking agencies like Priceline and Expedia. In an attempt to cut out the OTA middlemen, many large hotel chains had ...
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Can Big Hotel Chains Really Manage To Cut Out The OTA ‘Middleman’ By Offering Incentives To Direct Hotel Bookers?
The tussle between hotel owners and online travel agencies seems to be heating up. OTAs charge a substantial commission to hotel owners for hotels booked through their websites, however, given their popularity, hotel owners cannot avoid them enti...
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Here’s Why Expedia Is Currently Focusing On Expanding Its Presence In Asia
By now, we know that between the two OTA leaders, Priceline and Expedia, the former is more international in the spread of its business with over 90% of its revenues coming from overseas markets. Expedia, on the other hand, has so far been mostly...
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Here’s Why Expedia Acquired Rail Service Distributor SilverRail Technologies
While Priceline boasts of its impressive growth rate that is mainly organic, with fewer acquisitions compared to its closest peers, and also about how it is eating into its competitors’ market shares, it seems that Expedia is steadfast with...
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Key Takeaways From Expedia’s Q1 2017 Earnings Results: Non-Core Segments Promise Higher Future Growth
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In Line With 2016, Expedia’s Robust Growth Is Expected To Continue In Q1 2017 Driven By Its Strong Brands
Expedia is about to release its Q1 2017 results on April 27th. After delivering a strong 2016 where its top line grew by 32% y-o-y to around $9 billion, and its EBITDA grew by 39% to $1.6 billion, the company has decided to boost its product and ...
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This New Feature By Expedia Might Further Wow Travelers And Increase Traction On Its Websites
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Do Hotel Chains’ Loyalty Programs Pose A Significant Threat To The OTAs?
Online travel agencies (OTAs) and hotels seem to have somewhat of a love/hate relationship. Though OTAs bring more customers to hotels because of the increased exposure that they offer, hotels need to pay a certain percentage of commissions to th...
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Key Takeaways From Expedia’s Q4 2016 Earnings
Expedia released its Q4 and full year 2016 results on February 9th. All its segments performed well and the company is planning on gearing up its marketing and product development spends even further for quite a few of its segments. For the full ...
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What To Watch For In Expedia’s Q4 2016 Earnings
Expedia is slated to release its Q4 2016 earnings on February 9th . Starting off on a strong note in the first quarter of 2016, the company’s performance lagged in the second quarter due to the integration issues of its acquired entities, h...
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How Might President Trump’s Recent Travel Ban Impact The Various Stakeholders Of The Travel Industry?
The recent travel ban put forward by the US President, Donald Trump, has brought forward some concerns by the various stakeholders of the travel industry with a few companies filing a federal lawsuit against it. The impact of the ban on the US tr...
