Expedia News and Updates

Expedia Group is one of the most influential players in online travel, with a portfolio of brands and platforms that shape the digital booking landscape. PhocusWire provides timely, in-depth coverage of Expedia news and updates, including leadership changes, platform innovation, and shifts in its global strategy across lodging, air, and experiences.

The latest developments from Expedia and the OTA market

Track how Expedia is evolving its technology stack, streamlining traveler engagement, and reimagining its marketplace to compete in a rapidly changing OTA environment. Our reporting includes insights on product development, loyalty integration, and strategic partnerships that reflect broader trends in online travel retail.

Expedia, Millennials and the pattern recognition business
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Expedia, Millennials and the pattern recognition business
By Linda Fox | April 13, 2016
Expedia has conducted research into the behaviour of Millennials when searching and booking travel. It's not ground-breaking, but more of an affirmation of some of the trends out there on the attit Read More
Expedia turns back the clock for London visitors
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Expedia turns back the clock for London visitors
By Kevin May | April 13, 2016
Expedia has switched to the UK capital of London in a bid to add more bells and whistles to its destination pages. Historic London is a microsite available from the Expedia UK website which combine Read More
Airbnb is forecast to have $12.3 billion in bookings in 2016
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Airbnb is forecast to have $12.3 billion in bookings in 2016
By Sean O'Neil | April 11, 2016
Hard data on the financials of private company Airbnb are notoriously difficult to nail down. But a new estimate by US investment bank Cowen & Company predicts that the bookings site will process Read More
HomeRez woos Euro 4 million from Expedia vet and others, plots expansion
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HomeRez woos Euro 4 million from Expedia vet and others, plots expansion
By Kevin May | April 11, 2016
Vacation rental online booking and distribution service HomeRez has banked Euro 4 million from a panel of angel investors and two financial houses. Investing in the two-year-old company are Entrepr Read More
Expedia-backed Wingz, the airport ride service, talks expansion
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Expedia-backed Wingz, the airport ride service, talks expansion
By Kristine Hansen | April 8, 2016
Geoff Mathieux was on his way to the airport one day when he had an idea for a business start-up. Would it be possible to get a ride from someone else also en route to catch a flight? And so Wingz Read More
Expedia programmes marketing campaigns from TV to Facebook and Instagram
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Expedia programmes marketing campaigns from TV to Facebook and Instagram
By Kevin May | April 1, 2016
Expedia is one of a number of consumer brands that have been first to test a technology that connects the dots between TV and social media advertising. The US-based online travel agency has worked Read More
Seeing is believing – imagery, icons and interaction in destination marketing
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Seeing is believing – imagery, icons and interaction in destination marketing
By Sponsored Content | March 31, 2016
Destination marketers are tasked with building awareness and positive perceptions about a place - whether a city, country or region - to drive new and repeat visitors. NB This is a viewpoint by Ang Read More
Expedia helps some ill children travel with virtual reality [VIDEO]
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Expedia helps some ill children travel with virtual reality [VIDEO]
By Sean O'Neil | March 23, 2016
Sadly, many young child face cancer treatments that confine them to long hospital stays. But a handful of such children at St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital were able to escape briefly, thanks t Read More
Inside Expedia's new tool that lets hotels email with its bookers
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Inside Expedia's new tool that lets hotels email with its bookers
By Sean O'Neil | March 3, 2016
Expedia has been doing roadshows at industry events for marketing and sales hotel professionals to introduce its tool for direct communication between guests (who book through the online travel compan Read More
Expedia's new bidding model: Some hotel experts remain skeptical [UPDATED]
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Expedia's new bidding model: Some hotel experts remain skeptical [UPDATED]
By Kristine Hansen | March 3, 2016
Online travel-booking engines rarely change. So any wrinkle introduced by a company is bound to get a lot of close examination. Witness the industry's attention to Expedia Inc’s gradual debut of i Read More
Expedia brings Meeting Market out of the shadows
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Expedia brings Meeting Market out of the shadows
By Martin Cowen | February 24, 2016
Expedia's under-the-radar site Meeting Market is looking to expand beyond its current German base and become a pan-European, if not global, portal for the MICE sector. The site brings Expedia into Read More
Egencia connects corporate travellers to Uber services
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Egencia connects corporate travellers to Uber services
By Kevin May | February 24, 2016
Business travellers are being handed additional ground transportation options on the Egencia mobile app, through an integration with Uber. The Expedia Inc-owned travel management company has partne Read More
The Montcalm Mystery - comparison widgets, Booking.com and a PR fail
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The Montcalm Mystery - comparison widgets, Booking.com and a PR fail
By Kevin May | February 22, 2016
The idea of being able to compare rates from online travel agencies on a hotel website seems to get folk hot under the collar at the moment. Triptease has the comparison widget at the heart of its Read More
HomeAway tweaks its rental commissions, adds traveler fee
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HomeAway tweaks its rental commissions, adds traveler fee
By Sean O'Neil | February 19, 2016
This week HomeAway, the vacation rental platform, began rolling out a traveler fee to its US websites (HomeAway, VRBO, and VacationRentals.com), with a plan to introduce the fees globally later this y Read More
Priceline Group spent $2.8 billion on online advertising in 2015
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Priceline Group spent $2.8 billion on online advertising in 2015
By Kevin May | February 18, 2016
Little wake-up call shared today by the Priceline Group for consumer-facing startups thinking they can challenge the big boys and girls of the online travel world. In its fourth quarter and full ye Read More
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