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While Expedia Delivered A Lukewarm Quarter, Its New CEO Plans To Steer The Company To Better Days Through A Focus On Organic Growth
It took Expedia (NASDAQ: EXPE) a new CEO and a lukewarm third quarter to finally come to the conclusion that focusing on organic growth might be the best way to pursue the top position in the online travel market. Expedia was on an acquisition sp...
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Expedia Is Expected To Deliver A Strong Third Quarter Under Its New CEO
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How Will Blockchain Help Regulate OTA Commissions And Who Are Some Of Its Early Adopters
Under Blockchain, OTAs Will Continue Doing Business But In A Fairer Playing Field OTAs might still thrive through their services of aiding travelers in finding the exact property they are looking for from a curated list. However, they might st...
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Here’s How Blockchain Might Create A Fairer Playing Field In The Online Travel Market
The online travel behemoths like Priceline, Expedia, and Ctrip are increasingly gaining markets and becoming synonymous to travel booking, especially among the Millennials and Generation Z demographics. With their growth in clout, the online trav...
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Expedia’s New CEO Now Has More Reasons To Grow The Company Even Further
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This Is How Airbnb Is Gradually Becoming A Direct Competitor For The Leading OTAs
Priceline’s restaurant booking website, OpenTable, will now face a new competitor. Airbnb, in its endeavors to eventually become a full service travel-booking company, is now set to launch its own restaurant booking platform . The Airbnb we...
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Why Did Expedia’s CEO Recently Join Uber?
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Expedia’s Investments Are Reaping Benefits While The Company Displayed Steady Growth In Q2
Trivago (Expedia’s metasearch arm where it has a majority stake) is one of the fastest growing metasearch platforms. After going public last year, in Q1 2017, Trivago registered a 62% Y-o-Y growth in its revenues to $286 million whil...
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Though Short Term Profitability Might Remain Dampened, Expedia’s Focus On Expanding Services And Geographical Presence Might Generate Long Term Growth
Expedia is slated to release its Q2 2017 earnings on July 27th. After delivering a strong 2016 with over 30% growth in its top line and nearly 40% growth in EBITDA, the company had decided to invest more on its products and marketing in 2017 to g...
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Why Are The Regulatory Bodies Stepping Up To Curb The Growing Influence Of OTAs And What Might Be The Implications?
In a recent analysis, we showed how hotels are getting increasingly agitated with the rising commissions posed to them by online booking agencies like Priceline and Expedia. In an attempt to cut out the OTA middlemen, many large hotel chains had ...
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Can Big Hotel Chains Really Manage To Cut Out The OTA ‘Middleman’ By Offering Incentives To Direct Hotel Bookers?
The tussle between hotel owners and online travel agencies seems to be heating up. OTAs charge a substantial commission to hotel owners for hotels booked through their websites, however, given their popularity, hotel owners cannot avoid them enti...
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Here’s Why Expedia Is Currently Focusing On Expanding Its Presence In Asia
By now, we know that between the two OTA leaders, Priceline and Expedia, the former is more international in the spread of its business with over 90% of its revenues coming from overseas markets. Expedia, on the other hand, has so far been mostly...
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Here’s Why Expedia Acquired Rail Service Distributor SilverRail Technologies
While Priceline boasts of its impressive growth rate that is mainly organic, with fewer acquisitions compared to its closest peers, and also about how it is eating into its competitors’ market shares, it seems that Expedia is steadfast with...
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Key Takeaways From Expedia’s Q1 2017 Earnings Results: Non-Core Segments Promise Higher Future Growth
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In Line With 2016, Expedia’s Robust Growth Is Expected To Continue In Q1 2017 Driven By Its Strong Brands
Expedia is about to release its Q1 2017 results on April 27th. After delivering a strong 2016 where its top line grew by 32% y-o-y to around $9 billion, and its EBITDA grew by 39% to $1.6 billion, the company has decided to boost its product and ...
