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Expedia’s leaders ousted after “disappointing” results
Mark Okerstrom, the high-profile CEO of Expedia, has resigned along with Chief Financial Officer Alan Pickerill following a stoush over…
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Booking.com opens 90,000 destinations to crypto payments
Booking.com has partnered with cryptocurrency-friendly platform Travala to open up its accom inventory worldwide to Bitcoin-style payments.
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Booking.com prompts pricing fears with ‘genius’ policy
Booking.com is looking to expand its ‘genius rates’ across affiliates from December, prompting fears of rate leakage as travellers are…
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Industry
OTAs have “positive impact” on Australia, new research suggests
OTAs support one in four Australian tourism jobs and generated a quarter of the $28.4 billion spent by international tourists…
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Booking site uses illegal drip pricing to lure Australian guests
Resort fees may be illegal Down Under, but at least one booking site is flouting Australian consumer law with its…
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Marriott gives Expedia sole rights to wholesale rates in industry game changer
Marriott International has signed a deal with Expedia Group giving the online travel agency exclusive distribution rights for its wholesale…
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Travel colossus goes broke, blaming competition
Amoma.com, the third largest worldwide reservations platform, collapsed on Friday leaving travellers stranded as hotels stopped honouring reservations made through…
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Industry
Is this the shortest path to a direct booking?
When it comes to hotel advertising channels, metasearch advertising is the new, big kid on the block, spanning multiple platforms,…
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Google: Finally becoming an OTA?
Google is spreading its grip on the web - both on a global scale and across the vast majority of…
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Australasian brands go global as Expedia takes on Airbnb
Stayz and Bookabach, two quintessentially homegrown brands, are listing properties overseas as parent company HomeAway looks to encroach on Airbnb…
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