Expedia Celebrates the Seattle Seahawks: We have a lot of Seattle Seahawks fans at Expedia and as you can imagine, there was a lot of excitement at Expedia HQ in the days before and after the Hawks’ historic Superbowl victory. We made the local and national news when a group of employees stayed after work…
@TravelTekker’s Reviews & Impressions TravelTech pros’ takes on the latest websites, apps and gear Priceline app function searches by vacation type, not destination – Travel Weekly In the latest version of Priceline’s iPad app, users can try out a new “Explore Destinations” path. Users input a date and city of origin and then choose from…
Important Announcement from Denise Denise gets to go first this time because she has a Very Important Announcement: Win an Expedia Yellow Suitcase and support Passports With Purpose 2013!! I’m auctioning off a genuine Expedia Yellow Suitcase!!! How to get in on the bidding? Passports with Purpose is the annual Expedia-sponsored online auction to benefit…
Online Travel Industry Expedia peers into the future of travel, focusing on Millennials – Tnooz I’m really appreciating the quality of Tnooz reporter Sean O’Neill’s reporting on travel surveys and studies. Besides providing good summaries of the study findings, he has made a point to cover survey methodologies. As I commented on the Tnooz site: …
Focus on: China Skift Country Profiles: Chinese Online Travel Market in 2013 Informative article on the Chinese Travel Market, with some astounding numbers: “Total revenues of the travel industry in China grew from RMB1.16 trillion (US $190 billion) in 2008 to RMB2.57 trillion (US$419 billion) in 2012, representing a CAGR of 22.0%, according to iResearch.…
Online Travel Industry Survey reveals half of users do not trust travel review websites TripAdvisor reviews are rated as most trustworthy. I would have expected the Hotels.com and Priceline reviews to be perceived as more trustworthy, since both sites only allow reviews from people who have actually made a paid booking at a hotel (Expedia was not…
Online Travel Industry Hotwire Needs to Pivot Toward Last-Minute and Mobile, Expedia CEO says – Skift The article quotes lots of strategic insights from Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi. Expedia tests Shazamable travel ads – would you, seriously? | Tnooz Expedia is testing a new use for the popular Shazam music matching app. Rather than using the…
Anticipatory Assistants • Focus on: Social, Reviews, Tours, Innovation Blockers, Air Distribution, Space Travel • 180 Travel Briefs • Awesome Travel Photos • Tech Briefs • I Write Like… Editor’s Note I’ve been very busy with my day job, helping to deliver a next-generation travel search and booking site and it has been far too…
GetGoing Mini Review: an Interesting Variation on Opaque Booking Priceline and Hotwire have proved that airlines and hotels are willing to provide deep discounts on unsold inventory through “opaque” distribution channels. The idea is that the shopper purchases the product based on a generic description and the actual brand and product are revealed only after…
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