Articles tagged “booking holdings”

Online Travel

Booking Holdings to Lay Off Employees, Shift Spending Priorities

Was Booking Holdings getting too fat? With operating costs outpacing revenue growth, something had to give. We might not know the exact chess moves for awhile.

Dennis Schaal | 6 days ago

Booking Holdings to Lay Off Employees, Shift Spending Priorities

Online Travel

Booking Holdings: How It’s Using AI at its 5 Biggest Brands

Glenn Fogel recognizes that generative AI is still young — and full of bugs — but there's no time to experiment like the present.

Justin Dawes | 1 week ago

Booking Holdings: How It’s Using AI at its 5 Biggest Brands

Online Travel

Booking and Expedia: A Post-Pandemic Hiring Spree Versus Modest Growth

Booking's revenue has blown past pandemic levels, and it added back nearly 4,000 employees. Expedia trimmed its workforce anew in 2024 following completion of a tech migration.

Dennis Schaal | 1 week ago

Booking and Expedia: A Post-Pandemic Hiring Spree Versus Modest Growth

Online Travel

Booking Holdings Points to Strength in Room Nights, Rentals, Flights, AI and Asia

The biggest company in travel thinks it has the building blocks for steady — if not dramatic — growth for years to come.

Dennis Schaal | 2 weeks ago

Booking Holdings Points to Strength in Room Nights, Rentals, Flights, AI and Asia

Online Travel

Airbnb, Booking and Expedia: Expect More Stock Buybacks, Not Much M&A in 2025

Slow growth and not much merger and acquisition activity. Welcome to online travel's not "terribly exciting" period, according to BTIG.

Dennis Schaal | 1 month ago

Airbnb, Booking and Expedia: Expect More Stock Buybacks, Not Much M&A in 2025

Online Travel

Priceline Testing OpenAI’s Advanced Voice Tech for ‘Penny’ Chatbot

Priceline is among a handful of companies testing OpenAI's new voice tech. Priceline envisions that its future voicebot will be able to accompany a traveler through an entire trip.

Justin Dawes | 1 month ago

Priceline Testing OpenAI’s Advanced Voice Tech for ‘Penny’ Chatbot

Hotels

First Flights, Now the Travalyst Climate Coalition Turns to Hospitality Data

Travalyst's challenge in hospitality will be in trying to make itself a leader in sustainability measurement. This will be a tougher sell than flights.

Dennis Schaal | 2 months ago

First Flights, Now the Travalyst Climate Coalition Turns to Hospitality Data

Online Travel

Booking Holdings CEO: Competition with Airbnb and Growing Short-Term Rentals

Booking Holdings now has 7.8 million short-term rental listings worldwide, but not enough in the U.S. That's an opportunity, the CEO said.

Justin Dawes | 2 months ago

Booking Holdings CEO: Competition with Airbnb and Growing Short-Term Rentals

Online Travel

Is the Thrill Gone in Online Travel? Experiences to the Rescue? Hear More at Skift Global Forum

Five years from now, will Airbnb be at the top of the heap in short-term rentals? Will Chase Travel be a headliner? Will future generations yearn to travel as current ones do?

Dennis Schaal | 2 months ago

Is the Thrill Gone in Online Travel? Experiences to the Rescue? Hear More at Skift Global Forum

Airlines

Demand Surges for Festive Season Travel – India Report

The upcoming festive season is driving a surge in demand for travel across India. Airfares remain stable due to early bookings and special discounts, but there could be a spike as travel dates near.

Bulbul Dhawan | 2 months ago

Demand Surges for Festive Season Travel – India Report