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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 ...
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This New Feature By Expedia Might Further Wow Travelers And Increase Traction On Its Websites
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Do Hotel Chains’ Loyalty Programs Pose A Significant Threat To The OTAs?
Online travel agencies (OTAs) and hotels seem to have somewhat of a love/hate relationship. Though OTAs bring more customers to hotels because of the increased exposure that they offer, hotels need to pay a certain percentage of commissions to th...
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Key Takeaways From Expedia’s Q4 2016 Earnings
Expedia released its Q4 and full year 2016 results on February 9th. All its segments performed well and the company is planning on gearing up its marketing and product development spends even further for quite a few of its segments. For the full ...
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What To Watch For In Expedia’s Q4 2016 Earnings
Expedia is slated to release its Q4 2016 earnings on February 9th . Starting off on a strong note in the first quarter of 2016, the company’s performance lagged in the second quarter due to the integration issues of its acquired entities, h...
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How Might President Trump’s Recent Travel Ban Impact The Various Stakeholders Of The Travel Industry?
The recent travel ban put forward by the US President, Donald Trump, has brought forward some concerns by the various stakeholders of the travel industry with a few companies filing a federal lawsuit against it. The impact of the ban on the US tr...
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This New Experiment By Expedia Might Give It A Significant Competitive Advantage
We know how competitive the online travel industry is! While the leading players try growing by acquisitions and also organically, there seems to be no dearth of disruptive forces. Hence, in order to remain ahead of competition, leading players n...
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What Are Some Of The Key Drivers For The Online Travel Industry In 2017?
With the increasing ease of travel booking and the advancement of technology, the demand for online travel is growing and expected to rise further in the future. The share of online bookings in total travel bookings is increasing for hotels and a...
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Why Did Expedia Decide To Shut Down Its Italy-Based Hotel Booking Website, Venere?
Expedia acquired Venere with the intention of providing competition to Priceline’s Booking.com, in Europe. However, Venere’s small scale was no match for a behemoth like Booking.com and hence, after almost 9 years of having acquiring ...
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How Has 2016 Been For Expedia And What Are Its Current Focus Areas?
Expedia’s chief has recently claimed that the company is aiming to be the world’s first $100 billion travel agency in the next couple of years. The company, currently witnessing around 30% topline growth, carries on over $71 billion i...
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Trivago Might Be Coming Up With Better Quality And Customized Hotel Search Results In The Future
In a recent interview, Trivago’s CEO, Rolf Schrömgens, expressed that the hotel search options on the online travel and metasearch sites might be lagging in some aspect. According to him, the searches provide results that are all related to...
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Despite A Lackluster Beginning, Here’s Why Trivago Might Be Heading Towards A Better Future
Though Trivago raised an IPO funding far below its expectations and the company is currently spending a lot on marketing, we believe Trivago has significant future growth potential. It doesn’t seem like a good year for metasearch engines. ...
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In An Attempt to Further Wow Its Customers, Expedia Attempts To Provide Voice Search Services Through Amazon Alexa
Recently, we had written about how Expedia is planning to become the first $100 billion online travel company . One of the main drivers to help Expedia reach its target is technological investments. In one of its moves towards technological advan...
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Here’s How Expedia Is Planning On Becoming The First $100 Billion Travel Company
According to Expedia’s chief executive, Dara Khosrowshahi, the OTA aims to become the world’s first $100 billion travel agency in the next couple of years. On the recently held 17th annual Expedia Partner Conference he said that Exped...
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Do The Existing Online Travel Players Need To Feel Threatened By Google’s Possible Entry Into Their Territory?
Hence, Google already earns a travel revenue that is not only greater than that of the largest OTA, Priceline’s, but its revenues are also double the size of the second largest OTA, Expedia’s revenues. It is also assumed that Google e...
