Booking.com

A string of international acquisitions and investments (plus a new-ish name) to reflect on a global position has the industry speculating about what else lies ahead for the former Priceline Group. Read More

Booking.com's entry into the world of tours and activities has been played out in a fairly low-key way over the years. Read More

Who owns the customer profile is going to change, and it could be an online giant such as Google or Amazon. Read More

Vacation rental property managers in Europe are increasingly turning to Airbnb and Booking.com as distribution channels, however they are seeing gains in direct bookings for certain kinds of properties. Read More

Carlson Wagonlit Travel is running several chatbot pilots to see how and where the technology can best help the travel management company and its customers. Read More

Booking Holdings saw an acceleration in the rate of its room night growth in the third quarter of 2018, exceeding the high end of its guidance, driven by a delayed summer travel peak and improved... Read More

There's been a huge amount of attention on tours and activities during 2018 - perhaps more than any other sector in the industry. Read More

Tools to help professional vacation rental managers save time and control who can book their properties are part of a new suite of products launched this week by Booking.com.   Read More

The very promise to compare rates on hundreds of sites for the same hotel is what makes hotel metasearch inherently flawed. Read More

Booking Holdings is making a major investment and creating a strategic partnership with Grab Holdings, a Singapore-based on-demand transportation platform that operates in 235 cities in eight countries... Read More

The path that I was dutifully walking ended up not being the path that the rest of the industry was taking. Read More

One of the central tenets of the Power Paradox in travel is how some of the biggest brands ever assembled in the industry "have aggregated the content, established the trust and amassed the war chests... Read More

Developments in APAC will require different thinking and tactics on the part of foreign brands that wish to be part of the “next billion users” market. Read More

In what has been a transformative year for tours and activities, perhaps one development stood out more than any other. Read More

Because Airbnb, the online travel agencies and other billion-dollar third parties are waging an arms race to be the world’s biggest travel brand, hoteliers obviously want to optimize their booking... Read More