Booking.com News

As a global leader in online accommodations and travel services, Booking.com continues to shape the digital travel experience through innovation, platform evolution, and strategic partnerships. PhocusWire delivers the latest Booking.com news to keep industry professionals informed on how this travel giant is adapting to shifting market dynamics and consumer expectations.

Key Booking.com updates, partnerships, and market trends

Follow developments in Booking.com’s core technology, loyalty strategies, and supplier relationships, along with its expansion into flights, experiences, and payments. Our reporting covers how the brand is responding to competitive pressures, regulatory environments, and the increasing demand for seamless, personalized travel.

Diary of a hotel company in digital transformation
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Diary of a hotel company in digital transformation
By Linda Fox | November 26, 2015
In a fast-changing distribution landscape, who'd run a hotel these days, much less the multi-branded group with thousands of properties that is AccorHotels? Chairman and chief executive Sebastian B Read More
Booking.com fires legal threat at rate widgets, demands hotels switch off
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Booking.com fires legal threat at rate widgets, demands hotels switch off
By Kevin May | November 25, 2015
Booking.com has ordered hotels to remove a widget that displays its rates for the property alongside other online travel agencies. A letter sent to hoteliers which have installed the Price Check wi Read More
Booking.com tells hotels it's not a zero-sum game
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Booking.com tells hotels it's not a zero-sum game
By Sean O'Neil | November 25, 2015
Pepijn Rijvers knows more than most about Booking.com's meteoric rise. Last April, Rijvers became CMO of Europe's largest online travel company, which also happens to be the key engine behind Price Read More
Booking.com predicts alternative accommodation could overtake hotel stays
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Booking.com predicts alternative accommodation could overtake hotel stays
By Kevin May | November 17, 2015
Interesting gaze into the crystal ball from hotel giant Booking.com, with it saying non-hotel bookings will rise to outweigh traditional stays for business travellers in some countries. The analysi Read More
New focus on activities as Booking.com partners with buoyant GetYourGuide
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New focus on activities as Booking.com partners with buoyant GetYourGuide
By Kevin May | November 13, 2015
As GetYourGuide was trousering $50 million this morning in Series C funding, details also emerged to what has been going on behind the scenes for a while at Booking.com. Without any fanfare until n Read More
Booking.com brags about number of rooms (instead of properties)
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Booking.com brags about number of rooms (instead of properties)
By Kevin May | November 9, 2015
By a remarkable coincidence, following the acquisition of HomeAway by arch rival Expedia, Priceline Group has decided to "reveal Booking.com room stats for the first time". Booking.com has more tha Read More
Booking.com claims China Mobile link-up is world's biggest ever
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Booking.com claims China Mobile link-up is world's biggest ever
By Martin Cowen | November 6, 2015
The Qunar/Baidu/Ctrip share swap has grabbed the headlines in China, but Priceline Inc also deserves a mention for finding an innovative way to bring booking.com into the mix. A partnership with Ch Read More
Expedia acquires HomeAway for $3.9 billion
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Expedia acquires HomeAway for $3.9 billion
By Kevin May | November 4, 2015
So it wasn't the Priceline Group after all - Expedia has announced its intention to buy vacation rental brand HomeAway for $3.9 billion. It is the second biggest deal in travel tech in this decade, Read More
Airbnb, HomeAway, TripAdvisor, Booking, and Rented talk vacation rentals
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Airbnb, HomeAway, TripAdvisor, Booking, and Rented talk vacation rentals
By Nick Vivion | November 2, 2015
The mainstreaming of vacation rentals, regional consolidation, regulation and technology-driven operational efficiency were themes at the closing session of the annual Vacation Rental Managers Associa Read More
TripAdvisor says learning as it goes along with instant booking
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TripAdvisor says learning as it goes along with instant booking
By Kevin May | October 26, 2015
TripAdvisor's foray into Instant Booking for its hotel metasearch had been motoring along reasonably well until just a few weeks ago. And then it signed an agreement to have the Priceline Group bra Read More
Hotel chains disagree over Accor's open marketplace concept
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Hotel chains disagree over Accor's open marketplace concept
By Kevin May | October 22, 2015
To say the decision by Accor Hotels to open a "marketplace" has divided opinion would be a bit of an understatement. The global hotel chain announced in June this year that it would be allowing its Read More
Fear, loathing, and category killers: A chat about hotel distribution and merchandising
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Fear, loathing, and category killers: A chat about hotel distribution and merchandising
By Valyn Perini | October 20, 2015
The past month has been a "wow" moment for hotels, at least when it comes to distribution and merchandising. Last week, Priceline Group abandoned its resistance and signed up to provide its hotel i Read More
Priceline Group hotels go down instant booking route via TripAdvisor
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Priceline Group hotels go down instant booking route via TripAdvisor
By Linda Fox | October 14, 2015
The direct booking versus OTA debate just ratcheted up a notch with news that Priceline Group's hotel inventory will be made available via the TripAdvisor instant booking platform. It was only rela Read More
Booking.com claims 170,000 of its hotel stays each day are for corporates
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Booking.com claims 170,000 of its hotel stays each day are for corporates
By Kevin May | October 14, 2015
It's now six months since Booking.com officially started trying to woo business travellers and their travel managers. That's not to say that the hotel booking giant was never used by corporate trav Read More
Hotel group claims millions of online bookings every year are scams
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Hotel group claims millions of online bookings every year are scams
By Kevin May | October 5, 2015
The American Hotel & Lodging Association has claimed 15 million online hotel bookings in the US alone have been affected by "deceptive rogue affiliates". The lobbying group obviously has a vest Read More
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