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Yahoo Travel drops back - Top US travel sites, August 27 2011

By PhocusWire | August 30, 2011

Only a brief flirtation in the upper echelons of the top travel websites in the US for Yahoo Travel as it falls to third place behind Priceline and Expedia. Read More

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Expedia builds on winning lead - Top Canada travel sites, August 13 2011

By PhocusWire | August 15, 2011

Expedia extended its lead over Flight Network this week in Canada, with 8% market share between the pair in the agency category. Read More

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Expedia, Hotels.com, Priceline ending affiliate ties with Christian Values Network

By Dennis Schaal | August 10, 2011

Expedia says it ended an affiliate relationship with the Christian Values Network after learning the group donates money to some organizations that some people paint as hate groups. Read More

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Expedia and Priceline stretch lead - Top US travel sites, August 6 2011

By PhocusWire | August 10, 2011

Leading brands Expedia and Priceline have extended their dominance of US travel websites, securing almost a quarter of all traffic from agency websites. Read More

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Priceline to continue testing and expanding local deals

By Dennis Schaal | August 4, 2011

Priceline's hotel and car rental business grew substantially in the second quarter, and the company also is pondering local deals as a new revenue stream. Read More

Travelport: GDS share gains at Priceline

By Dennis Schaal | August 4, 2011

Gordon Wilson, hosting his first earnings call today as Travelport's president and CEO, says Travelport is taking an increased share of GDS bookings at Priceline. Read More

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Expedia crowding out competition - Top Canada travel sites, July 30 2011

By PhocusWire | August 2, 2011

Expedia now has a bigger share of web traffic in Canada than the next six leading sites in the agency category combined. Read More

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Priceline peers over shoulder of Expedia - Top US travel sites, 16 July 2011

By PhocusWire | July 20, 2011

Priceline has narrowed the gap between it and first placed Expedia in the top ten travel websites in the US. Read More

Amadeus expands hotel choices with prepaid vouchers

By Dennis Schaal | July 14, 2011

Group-buying sites such as Groupon offer prepaid vouchers and now Amadeus is building up its hotel offerings with prepaid vouchers, as well. Read More

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Online travel agencies seek to suppress court disclosure on service fees

By Dennis Schaal | July 8, 2011

Major online travel agencies are seeking to reverse a federal court's public disclosure of how they calculate their service fees when selling hotel rooms using the merchant model. Read More

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Expedia extends lead at the top - Top Canada travel sites, July 2 2011

By PhocusWire | July 8, 2011

Expedia has secured almost a 10% lead over its nearest rival amongst travel intermediaries in Canada. Read More

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Priceline: Ticketing milestone with American Airlines direct connect

By Dennis Schaal | July 7, 2011

Seldom does a company issue a press release and then refuse all comment about it, but this was the case today with Priceline's announcement that it had reached a milestone in its 6-month-old deployment... Read More

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Why hotels should think of themselves before embracing Facebook and flash sales

By Viewpoints | July 6, 2011

A well-known story for hotels: powerful middlemen that dominate the market and put pressure on the property managers to lower prices and increase the commission. Read More

Orbitz and Cheaptickets join the mob in crowded flash sales field

By Dennis Schaal | June 28, 2011

Soon it seems nearly every travel site will offer members' only flash sales for hotels or local deals. Read More

Sneak peak at new Priceline ad on travel site double-cross

By Dennis Schaal | June 24, 2011

William Shatner and the gang, including actress Sacheen Padilla playing the character Naomi Pryce, return in a Priceline Name Your Own Price ad which will be aired on cable channels nationwide in the... Read More

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