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Very slowly, British travellers start to engage with bots

By Martin Cowen | May 16, 2017

A Kayak.co.uk study into the British traveller reveals some long-term grains of optimism when it comes to bots despite the fact that, presently, more than half the country hasn't heard about them. Read More

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Priceline Group bookings soar by a quarter to hit $20 billion in three months

By Kevin May | May 9, 2017

The Priceline Group has seen gross bookings across the group for the first quarter of 2017 hit a record $20.7 billion. The increase of 24% year-on-year is more than $400 million compared to the sam Read More

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Google tests search for package travel in Europe

By Kevin May | April 19, 2017

Google is experimenting with metasearch for packaged trips - one of the mainstays of the European travel sector. The search giant insists that it is purely in "test" phase with the service, limitin Read More

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Voopter brings in $600K round, claims top flight search role in Brazil

By Kevin May | March 11, 2017

Four-year-old Brazilian flight search engine Voopter has attracted the attention of overseas investors again, this time almost doubling its previous round. Travel Capitalist Ventures is behind the Read More

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Email marketing for hotels - everything you should be doing (and more)

By Viewpoints | March 6, 2017

Here is something that everybody in the hotel industry already knows (or should do): email marketing has become more important than ever. The cost of click and impression-based marketing on search Read More

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Google can rejoice: Priceline Group spent $3.5 billion on PPC in 2016

By Kevin May | February 28, 2017

No wonder travel companies find it hard to compete with the Priceline Group - the company splashed out a record $3.5 billion on marketing last year. Google was most likely the primary recipient of Read More

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Priceline Group scores big in 2016 as bookings soar by 23%

By Kevin May | February 27, 2017

The Priceline Group made $10.7 billion in revenue in 2016 - up from $9.2 billion in 2015 - and has seen a 40% jump in adjusted EBITDA. Agency revenues made up $7.9 billion of the overall pie. Gr Read More

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Momondo was the first punch for new Priceline Group CEO - but what comes next?

By Viewpoints | February 23, 2017

The Priceline Group’s purchase of Momondo for $550 million represents the company’s first acquisition of scale since buying OpenTable for $2.6 billion in 2014. It is also the newly appointed Glenn Read More

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Priceline Group buys Momondo for $550 million

By Kevin May | February 8, 2017

The Momondo Group has sold to the Priceline Group, owner of rival travel search service Kayak, in a $550 million deal. The deal will see the two brands within the group, Momondo and Cheapflights, " Read More

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Pivotal moment in 2016 - when Ctrip bought Skyscanner for $1.8 billion

By Kevin May | December 23, 2016

There are a number of elements to the Ctrip buys Skyscanner story that makes it worthy of being one of the most important of the year. Perhaps the first is that most of those who have watched the g Read More

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Tripping.com nets $35 million, as investors come knocking for travel metasearch

By Sean O'Neil | December 14, 2016

Investors are positioning themselves to take advantage of the proven model of travel metasearch in many of the world’s markets, as witnessed by Ctrip's recent purchase of Skyscanner for $1.7 billion a Read More

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Skyscanner sells to Ctrip for $1.75 billion

By Kevin May | November 24, 2016

Chinese online travel giant Ctrip has made a huge move into the international marketplace with a $1.75 billion takeover of travel search site Skyscanner. The deal, which is a combination of mostly Read More

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Priceline Group predicts rise of travel besties - smart tech that understands traveller needs

By Kevin May | November 21, 2016

"Instant Gratification 2.0" is how the Priceline Group is defining how tech will influence travellers as they look for and interact with travel brands. The industry powerhouse behind companies such Read More

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Hafner isn't having it — Kayak's CEO critiques Google, Airbnb, and others

By Sean O'Neil | November 18, 2016

Steve Hafner, co-founder and chief executive of Kayak, is living up to his reputation for being one of the liveliest annual on-stage interviewees at the Phocuswright Conference. On-stage he says th Read More

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Trivago readies for public life, files for IPO in the US

By Kevin May | November 15, 2016

Trivago has ended months of speculation and announced its intention to list on the public financial markets for the first time. The Germany-based metasearch engine intends to place itself on NASDAQ Read More

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