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Booking Holdings will appeal $530M fine by Spanish competition authority
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Booking Holdings will appeal $530M fine by Spanish competition authority
By Mitra Sorrells | February 22, 2024
Booking Holdings reported its fourth quarter and full year 2023 earnings late Thursday, with records across multiple financial metrics including revenue that soared 40% higher than 2019. Read More
Bookings Holdings names new CFO to replace retiring Goulden
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Bookings Holdings names new CFO to replace retiring Goulden
By Mitra Sorrells | December 13, 2023
Ewout Steenbergen will join the company in March as executive vice president and chief financial officer. He was most recently at S&P Global. Read More
Booking Holdings posts record earnings, expects to grow AI, flight offerings
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Booking Holdings posts record earnings, expects to grow AI, flight offerings
By Morgan Hines | November 2, 2023
Booking Holdings’ total revenue came in at $7.3 billion, showing a 21% increase over the same quarter last year, and adjusted EBITDA clocked at $3.3 billion - a 24% increase from the same quarter of... Read More
Booking’s Fogel sees signs of “record summer travel season”
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Booking’s Fogel sees signs of “record summer travel season”
By Derek Catron | August 3, 2023
Booking Holdings enjoyed record gross travel bookings in Q2, but CEO Glenn Fogel sees even better things coming based on July figures.   Read More
Agoda unveils wholesale distribution platform for hotel partners
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Agoda unveils wholesale distribution platform for hotel partners
By Derek Catron | June 30, 2023
Booking Holdings brand Agoda now offers more transparency for hotels to track volume and rates and maximize revenues.    Read More
Booking Holdings sees opportunity to recreate "human travel agent” with generative AI
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Booking Holdings sees opportunity to recreate "human travel agent” with generative AI
By Mitra Sorrells | May 4, 2023
The comments regarding generative AI came as the company shared its first quarter financial results, which had both gross bookings and room nights at record levels for a quarter.  Read More
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Citi’s new travel portal powered by Booking Holdings goes live
By Mitra Sorrells | March 21, 2023
The site includes supply from Booking.com – such as 1.4 million hotels around the world - and is powered by technology from Rocket Travel by Agoda, another of Booking Holdings’ brands. Read More
Travel’s movers, shakers and newsmakers 2022
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Travel’s movers, shakers and newsmakers 2022
By PhocusWire | December 21, 2022
These are the people and topics that have made headlines in 2022 and that we expect to hear more about in 2023. Read More
Asia panel PCW 2022
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How travel is rebounding in Asia without China
By Kathryn Walson | December 20, 2022
In the panel “Around Asia: Hello, New World,” key players in the industry discuss their observations and predictions for the region, including the takeoff of autonomous vehicles, electric aircraft and... Read More
Pundits divided on the outlook for travel in 2023
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Pundits divided on the outlook for travel in 2023
By PhocusWire | November 21, 2022
Travel industry experts with decades of experience join forces at The Phocuswright Conference to try to make sense of current and future trends. Read More
Can tech help travel brands meet growing expectations?
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Can tech help travel brands meet growing expectations?
By Alfred Siew - Techgoondu | October 13, 2022
Travel executives from Agoda, Klook and more discuss why the industry must work harder to deliver new experiences. Read More
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Guesty expands hotel offerings with acquisition of YieldPlanet
By Mitra Sorrells | September 14, 2022
Guesty is also launching a new Distribution Hub that adds direct connections with Hopper, Trip.com, Marriott Homes & Villas and Google’s hotel and vacation rental search products. Read More
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Agoda’s Tim Hughes on preparing for the coming travel boom
By Mitra Sorrells | August 15, 2022
"We don’t want to be at the starting line of the COVID travel boom standing still, we want to be racing," says Agoda's vice president of corporate development. Read More
Booking Holdings nearly doubles revenue in Q2 2022
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Booking Holdings nearly doubles revenue in Q2 2022
By Jill Menze | August 3, 2022
Revenues for Q2 2022 were up 99% year-on-year to $4.3 billion, while room nights booked surpassed 2019 levels. Read More
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Travel pundits talk plumbing, pandemic and emerging tech
By PhocusWire | June 29, 2022
The travel industry remains complex, and some are concerned the opportunity to build back better may be lost. Read More