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TripAdvisor’s Instant Booking Is Expected To Receive A Significant Boost With The Inclusion Of Expedia’s Websites
After months of conjecture whether Instant Booking will be a game changer for TripAdvisor or whether it will spell doom for the company eventually making it an acquisition target, it seems TripAdvisor’s confidence in its Instant Booking pla...
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Here’s Why TripAdvisor Might Have Invested In Business Travel Data Aggregator, Traxo
In a possible attempt to strengthen the travel services portfolio for its business travelers, TripAdvisor has decided to be the lead investor in the Series B funding round worth $5.2 million for Traxo, a company that collects data in the business...
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Does TripAdvisor’s Vacation Rental Segment Have The Potential To Become The Next Market Leader?
Though TripAdvisor seems to be troubled by its biggest investment, Instant Booking right now, it seems that the company’s other investments are paying off. In fact, we have earlier spoken about how TripAdvisor’s non-hotel business mig...
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Do The Existing Online Travel Players Need To Feel Threatened By Google’s Possible Entry Into Their Territory?
Hence, Google already earns a travel revenue that is not only greater than that of the largest OTA, Priceline’s, but its revenues are also double the size of the second largest OTA, Expedia’s revenues. It is also assumed that Google e...
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What Might Be Troubling TripAdvisor Currently?
TripAdvisor’s recent third quarter earnings showed that the company still has a long way to go before it starts showing signs of a turnaround in its persistently weak performance. The primary reason for the same has been TripAdvisor’...
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TripAdvisor’s Third Quarter 2016 Remains Dampened As It Keeps Waiting For Instant Booking’s Success
Following the cue of the last two quarters of 2016, TripAdvisor’s performance continued being dampened in the third quarter. Though its top line grew by a mere 1% year-on-year, its EBITDA declined by 12% year-on-year. The biggest reason for...
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TripAdvisor’s Third Quarter 2016 Earnings Preview
TripAdvisor is expected to release its third quarter 2016 earnings on November 9th. So far this year, TripAdvisor’s performance has not been promising owing to its continued investments across its platforms as well as its strategic acquisit...
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The New Group That Is Currently Dominating Business Travel And Its Implications
A new report called the Portrait of Business Travelers published by MMGY Global indicates that the millennials are the group predominating the set of business travelers currently. Their patterns of buying also varies distinctly from those of the...
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Here’s Why TripAdvisor Believes It Can Effect A Turnaround
TripAdvisor is currently going through troubled times. The continued investments across its platforms, as well as strategic acquisitions, are keeping the company’s performance dampened currently. In the second quarter, TripAdvisor’s t...
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Facebook’s New Travel Product Might Help OTAs With More Exposure
Now online travel agencies can push their products further to their potential clientele with the help of Facebook’s new Dynamic Ads for Travel . This feature has been launched in June on both Facebook and Instagram to help travel companies influ...
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Here’s How TripAdvisor Can Be Impacted By “Google Trips”
Editor’s Note: Do you have an analysis request? Feel free to email content@trefis.com ________________________________________________________________ According to our estimates, Unique Visitors To TripAdvisor’s sites per month is a key dr...
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This New Entrant In The Tourist Attraction Domain Might Adversely Impact Some Of The OTAs
Yesterday, Google launched a new smartphone application called Google Trips. Described as a ‘ personalized tour guide ‘ this application will help travelers to plan their vacation days with reservations, things to do, food and drink, ...
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How Is The U.S. Travel Industry Faring Currently?
According to the U.S. Travel Association’s Travel Trends Index report, domestic leisure travel in the U.S. is at its lowest growth level since December 2012. This might imply lower domestic travel spending as is evident by the year-on-year decl...
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TripAdvisor Acquires Citymaps To Further Boost Its Tours And Activities Platform
Even though it currently seems to be struggling under the burden of its investments, TripAdvisor – the world’s largest travel review website – had recently acquired New York-based Citymaps, a map-based guide for things to do in a city. ...
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Can TripAdvisor’s Quest To Emerge As A Booking Site Spell Doom For It?
We recently downgraded our stock price estimate for TripAdvisor by around 12% post the company’s Q2 2016 results . TripAdvisor’s continued investments across its platforms, as well as strategic acquisitions, are keeping the company&#...
