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 adds email alerts for hotel winning bids
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Priceline adds email alerts for hotel winning bids
By Dennis Schaal | June 9, 2011
Looking to boost its Name Your Own Price business and revenue for participating hotels, Priceline added email alerts for winning hotel bids. Read More
CarTrawler takes in new investment, shuffles executive pack
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CarTrawler takes in new investment, shuffles executive pack
By Kevin May | May 9, 2011
Ireland-based car hire distribution system CarTrawler has confirmed it is looking to offload a share of the company to help fund its next period of growth. Read More
Priceline shuffles executives, but Boyd stays on
By Dennis Schaal | May 5, 2011
Priceline -- meaning the Priceline group of companies -- shuffled its executive ranks in North America and Europe. Read More
Adioso begins Booking.com love affair with Valentine travel site
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Adioso begins Booking.com love affair with Valentine travel site
By Kevin May | February 15, 2011
On the one hand it's just another hotel partnership with a travel search engine, so good to see some creativity being used to showcase what might be around the corner. Read More
Ebookers claims European mobile first for booking all travel products
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Ebookers claims European mobile first for booking all travel products
By Kevin May | January 11, 2011
Ebookers reckons it is the first online travel agency in Europe to develop and mobile-ready website for users to select every product and manage their bookings. Read More
Kukunu launches Hotel Me application for Facebook
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Kukunu launches Hotel Me application for Facebook
By Kevin May | December 7, 2010
London-based startup Kukunu has extended its social travel recommendation engine outside of the main site into the world's biggest network, Facebook. Read More
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
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