Online travel giant Expedia has shown just how serious it is about ramping up its global tour offerings by partnering with Australian technology startup Booking Boss.
In August, industry observers predicted the travel giant was expanding its involvement with tours and activities, after adding real-time reviews to their website....
Expedia/Egencia Mobile Index Study of Global Travelers Reveals That They Now Consider the Smartphone to Be Their "Most Indispensable" Travel Companion
Expedia.com®, one of the world's largest full service online travel sites, andEgencia®, the business travel brand of Expedia, Inc. (NASDAQ: EXPE), today released the results of the...
New Functionality Simplifies Point Redemption for Expedia+ Rewards Members
Expedia.com®, one of the world's largest full service online travel sites, today announced a new functionality that enables Expedia+ rewards members to redeem earned points towards merchant hotel purchases.
"The concept is that we want to allow our Expedia+...
With the unofficial end of summer approaching, data analysts at Expedia.com®, one of the world's largest full-service online travel sites1, have unveiled noteworthy trends for the 2015 Labor Day holiday. In addition to identifying hot spots and top under-the-radar destinations, the team analyzed 2014 Labor Day holiday booking data and...
New data from the June Travel Analytics' Monthly iPhone Travel App Tracker – covering 150 individual countries – indicates severe regionality of travel apps which are most popular in Europe accounting for 5.5% of the most popular free applications whereas the category accounts for just 1.6% in Africa.
The data should help travel...
Adds rental cars & local activity options to the Expedia app, alongside flights & hotels
Expedia.ca®, Canada's most-visited full-service online travel provider, today unveiled its latest update to the award-winning Expedia app. The free Expedia app has now introduced the ability to book rental cars and local activities in...
Adds rental cars & local activity options to the Expedia mobile app, alongside flights & hotels; Expedia cites mobile as key future growth driver, continues heavy investment in mobile tech development
Expedia.com®, one of the world's largest full service online travel sites1, recently unveiled several major updates to its...
Orbitz Worldwide (NYSE:OWW) announced that at its annual stockholders meeting today in Chicago, stockholders approved the merger agreement providing for the acquisition of Orbitz Worldwide by Expedia, Inc. (Nasdaq:EXPE). Approximately 74 percent of the shares outstanding voted in favor of the transaction. More than 99 percent of the...
Expedia Inc said it sold its entire stake in Chinese online travel company eLong Inc to rival Ctrip.com International Ltd and others for about $671 million.
Elong's U.S.-listed shares rose 31 percent to a near four-year high of $27 in premarket trading on Friday.
Expedia had raised its stake in eLong to 62.4 percent in 2011 to...
By David Tossell, Vice President of Travel & Hospitality for DataArt, a technology consulting firm
We all saw it coming. The signs were there since 2013 when Travelocity succumbed and became an affiliate of Expedia. And then the fine print was revealed: Expedia had pre-negotiated the right to buy Travelocity outright at a...