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.

Priceline boss on mobile and dynamic packaging in Europe
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Priceline boss on mobile and dynamic packaging in Europe
By Kevin May | November 19, 2010
Priceline boss Jeffery Boyd says mobile is the most exciting opportunity currently available in travel and will consider following its rival Expedia by acquiring technology to compete. Read More
hotels.com pushes harder into Latin America
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hotels.com pushes harder into Latin America
By Dennis Schaal | October 25, 2010
hotels.com is accelerating its push into Latin America, particularly in Brazil and Mexico, as it competes with Priceline's Booking.com and providers of pre-packaged holidays. Read More
Priceline takes search lead over rivals in new global markets
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Priceline takes search lead over rivals in new global markets
By Dennis Schaal | October 8, 2010
Priceline global brands such as Agoda and Booking.com are eclipsing their rivals from the Expedia and Orbitz camps around the world when it comes to a presence in paid-search. Read More
Glenn Fogel of Priceline on bleeding edges, failures and acquisitions
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Glenn Fogel of Priceline on bleeding edges, failures and acquisitions
By Siew Hoon Yeoh | October 7, 2010
Early-September in Beijing, a Christmas jingle is playing in the lobby lounge of the GeHua New Century Hotel. Read More
Skoosh takes hotel rate fight to Canadian authorities
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Skoosh takes hotel rate fight to Canadian authorities
By Kevin May | September 23, 2010
UK-based hotel website Skoosh is taking its dogged fight against the industry to Canada in yet another very public row, this time with two hotel chains. Read More
UK regulator steps in to investigate online hotel bookings
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UK regulator steps in to investigate online hotel bookings
By Kevin May | September 16, 2010
British business watchdog the Office of Fair Trading is looking into possible breaches of competition law around hotel booking on the web. Read More
Priceline on mobile apps, branding, Google-ITA, TripAdvisor
By Dennis Schaal | September 7, 2010
Do Priceline's bookings from its mobile apps cannibalize its website business or are they incremental? Read More
Yapta partners with Booking.com to supplement Orbitz hotel search
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Yapta partners with Booking.com to supplement Orbitz hotel search
By Dennis Schaal | July 30, 2010
Yapta turned to Priceline's Booking.com to plug holes in hotel-search data from Orbitz, particularly in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Read More
Priceline begins switching global car hire partners to TravelJigsaw
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Priceline begins switching global car hire partners to TravelJigsaw
By Kevin May | July 26, 2010
Priceline is wasting little time making the most of its recent acquisition, online car hire firm TravelJigsaw, transferring control from current partners to the new system. Read More
HomeAway, Booking.com lead the way -- Expedia resigned to me-too
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HomeAway, Booking.com lead the way -- Expedia resigned to me-too
By Dennis Schaal | May 20, 2010
When he talks about HomeAway's lead in vacation rentals and Booking.com's edge in the retail-hotel business in Europe and Asia, Expedia Inc.'s Dara Khosrowshahi offers a similar refrain. Read More
How will Thomas Cook become a top European online travel agency?
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How will Thomas Cook become a top European online travel agency?
By Kevin May | April 27, 2010
Even in an industry full of hyperbole the claim by tour operating giant Thomas Cook that it will become one of the top online travel agencies in Europe needs examining. Read More
Priceline CEO on metasearch swan song, private sales, Expedia, Asia strategy
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Priceline CEO on metasearch swan song, private sales, Expedia, Asia strategy
By Dennis Schaal | February 24, 2010
Priceline CEO Jeffery Boyd thinks metasearch's best days are behind it, argues that Jetsetter's private, members-only hotel sales will forever remain a niche endeavor, and rules out relaunching a... Read More
For Priceline, Booking.com, Agoda -- it's a sharing and marketshare thing
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For Priceline, Booking.com, Agoda -- it's a sharing and marketshare thing
By Dennis Schaal | February 18, 2010
Priceline continued its torrid growth, particularly internationally, in the fourth quarter and increasingly is sharing hotel inventory across its brands. Read More
What is it about Ryanair and its white label partnerships?
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What is it about Ryanair and its white label partnerships?
By Kevin May | February 16, 2010
Reports today suggesting Ryanair has settled out of court with Expedia over their ill-fated partnership has thrown the spotlight once again on the airline's white label deals. Read More