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This New Experiment By Expedia Might Give It A Significant Competitive Advantage
We know how competitive the online travel industry is! While the leading players try growing by acquisitions and also organically, there seems to be no dearth of disruptive forces. Hence, in order to remain ahead of competition, leading players n...
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What Are Some Of The Key Drivers For The Online Travel Industry In 2017?
With the increasing ease of travel booking and the advancement of technology, the demand for online travel is growing and expected to rise further in the future. The share of online bookings in total travel bookings is increasing for hotels and a...
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Why Did Expedia Decide To Shut Down Its Italy-Based Hotel Booking Website, Venere?
Expedia acquired Venere with the intention of providing competition to Priceline’s Booking.com, in Europe. However, Venere’s small scale was no match for a behemoth like Booking.com and hence, after almost 9 years of having acquiring ...
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How Has 2016 Been For Expedia And What Are Its Current Focus Areas?
Expedia’s chief has recently claimed that the company is aiming to be the world’s first $100 billion travel agency in the next couple of years. The company, currently witnessing around 30% topline growth, carries on over $71 billion i...
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Trivago Might Be Coming Up With Better Quality And Customized Hotel Search Results In The Future
In a recent interview, Trivago’s CEO, Rolf Schrömgens, expressed that the hotel search options on the online travel and metasearch sites might be lagging in some aspect. According to him, the searches provide results that are all related to...
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Despite A Lackluster Beginning, Here’s Why Trivago Might Be Heading Towards A Better Future
Though Trivago raised an IPO funding far below its expectations and the company is currently spending a lot on marketing, we believe Trivago has significant future growth potential. It doesn’t seem like a good year for metasearch engines. ...
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In An Attempt to Further Wow Its Customers, Expedia Attempts To Provide Voice Search Services Through Amazon Alexa
Recently, we had written about how Expedia is planning to become the first $100 billion online travel company . One of the main drivers to help Expedia reach its target is technological investments. In one of its moves towards technological advan...
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Here’s How Expedia Is Planning On Becoming The First $100 Billion Travel Company
According to Expedia’s chief executive, Dara Khosrowshahi, the OTA aims to become the world’s first $100 billion travel agency in the next couple of years. On the recently held 17th annual Expedia Partner Conference he said that Exped...
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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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Here Are Some Important Strategies That Expedia Is Focusing On For Its Future Growth
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Here’s Why Expedia’s Metasearch Engine, Trivago, Filed For An IPO
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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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Post The Completion Of Its Integration Related Activities, Expedia Seems To Be Back On The Growth Track
Expedia released its Q3 2016 results on October 27th. The company reflected significant year-on-year growth in all its important parameters namely, gross bookings (21%), revenues (33%) and adjusted EBITDA (42%). Last quarter, Expedia’s resu...
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Priceline Vs Expedia: Who Is Growing Faster?
Priceline and Expedia are currently the world’s largest OTAs in terms of geographical spread and revenues. Though Ctrip’s market capitalization ($21 billion) recently surpassed that of Expedia’s ($17 billion) post its stake in Q...
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Would The Rise Of Direct Bookings Through Hotels Adversely Impact The Biggest OTAs?
There has been a rising trend among hotels to encourage direct bookings through their own websites. The biggest incentive for the same is that then these hotel owners can forego the commission they need to pay to the online travel agents, in case...
