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Booking engines on tourism websites - they're good, not evil

By Viewpoints | December 10, 2013

Debates about whether to have booking engines on DMO sites comes up very often in conferences and webinars. Should we have one? Does it really work? NB: This is an analysis by Ashwin Kamlani, pr Read More

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Priceline duo speak: Huston on the future and Boyd on the past

By Kevin May | November 21, 2013

For years Priceline top brass such as CEO Jeff Boyd would rarely speak to the media beyond the obligatory appearances with the financial press around earnings. But with him recently stepping aside Read More

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Priceline gets into inspiration game (thanks to Travelport)

By Kevin May | November 19, 2013

Priceline is the latest travel brand to try and re-engineer the way people get ideas for travel after integrating an inspiration engine provided by Travelport. The tool being rolled out on a new ve Read More

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Dear Mr Huston, some advice as you become new CEO of Priceline

By Viewpoints | November 18, 2013

New CEOs always have big shoes to fill, but when you're the incoming boss of Priceline you have the biggest shoes to fill in the travel world. Under your predecessor, Jeff Boyd, Priceline went from Read More

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Priceline shock move - Jeff Boyd steps aside as CEO and president, Huston promoted

By Kevin May | November 7, 2013

In a development straight out of the leftfield, Priceline CEO and president Jeff Boyd has handed over control of the company to Booking.com boss Darren Huston. The announcement was made as Pricelin Read More

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Life in Yahoo Travel remains - in Taiwan and Hong Kong anyway

By Karthick Prabu | October 30, 2013

The top travel website (by traffic) in Taiwan and Hong Kong is not a global OTA, nor an airline - it is Yahoo Travel. ComScore, the web traffic measurement service, reveals more data in a study Read More

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I'll take the standard room with the big cat, please (AKA how Agoda tests its web pages)

By Kevin May | October 19, 2013

Developers and web engineers are notorious for testing out web pages with cheeky and often weird content - but did the Agoda team mean to do so in a live environment? Word reaches us of a mysteriou Read More

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SouthWest secures quarter of all airline web traffic - Top US travel websites, September 2013

By PhocusWire | October 15, 2013

Southwest is winning almost a quarter of all traffic to airline brands in the list of leading US travel websites during September this year. The carrier added some 0.5% to its overall market share Read More

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Odigeo joins the big boys in travel search, buys Liligo from SNCF

By Kevin May | October 9, 2013

Speculation in recent months that European online travel agency powerhouse Odigeo was eyeing its own move into travel search has come to fruition - it has bought French site Liligo from SNCF. The o Read More

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Kayak ploughs ahead with international expansion as travel search gets super hot

By Linda Fox | October 3, 2013

Kayak has had its thunder stolen with news of Europe-based Skyscanner's investment windfall on the same day as its own announcement of sites in eight new markets. Priceline-owned Kayak has already Read More

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Survey reveals half of users do not trust travel review websites

By Karthick Prabu | September 23, 2013

Content is STILL proving to be the king. About 60% of review website users pay more attention to customer comments rather than to the numerical or star ratings reviewers provided. But there is a fl Read More

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Google Wallet comes to iPhone, and travel companies sign up for mobile payments

By Sean O'Neil | September 19, 2013

Two announcements today about Google Wallet suggest travelers may soon start paying for things at US destinations with their mobile devices. Google Wallet -- an app that lets users send money from Read More

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Priceline ups advertising ante with sponsored listings for hotels

By Linda Fox | September 16, 2013

Priceline has unveiled a pay-per-click service enabling hotels to target potential guests at the time of purchase. Read More

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Behind the scenes, Booking.com is quietly powering hotel search for a trio of major European agencies

By Kevin May | August 27, 2013

With all the coverage and analysis of the Expedia-Travelocity deal last week, another major partnership at the European end of the industry has slipped under the radar. Read More