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Online Travel

Hopper Will Let Customers Pay a Fee to Leave the Hotel After Check-In for Any Reason

Hopper's leave-for-any-reason hotel offering would seemingly be attractive to many guests, but can also be a headache for hotels and open to abuse.

Dennis Schaal | 2 years ago

Hopper Will Let Customers Pay a Fee to Leave the Hotel After Check-In for Any Reason

Hotels

Lodging Advertisers Love of Video May Persist Through 2022 and Beyond

You can debate the degree to which cities will come back and the future grip of remote work, but it seems clear that video advertising will remain on a new perch for awhile.

Dennis Schaal | 2 years ago

Lodging Advertisers Love of Video May Persist Through 2022 and Beyond

Online Travel

Uber as Next Travel Powerhouse? Highly Doubtful

If you think Dara Khosrowshahi is going to toggle a switch and turn Uber into the next Expedia or Booking, then consider the years-long effort Booking Holdings is putting into building "the connected trip." Who's going to plan a vacation and start with a rideshare app?

Dennis Schaal | 2 years ago

Uber as Next Travel Powerhouse? Highly Doubtful

Online Travel

Booking.com Warns Car Partners About Using Over-the-Top Promo Lingo

Booking.com doesn't want affiliates or other partners to make unsubstantiated promotional claims about the online travel agency having the "best," meaning the lowest prices, which it admits it doesn't have. With regulators in Europe and elsewhere watching its every move, Booking.com doesn't want to play like that.

Dennis Schaal | 2 years ago

Booking.com Warns Car Partners About Using Over-the-Top Promo Lingo

Ground Transport

Volkswagen Close to Buying France’s Europcar in Hot Car Rental Market

If Volkswagen succeeds in its bid to purchase Europcar, consumers would greatly benefit as the deal would likely lead to electric vehicles becoming more available.

Gwénaëlle Barzic and Arno Schuetze, Reuters | 3 years ago

Volkswagen Close to Buying France’s Europcar in Hot Car Rental Market

Online Travel

Booking Holdings and Expedia in Arms Race to Deliver the Connected Trip

From the wishful thinking and hype of years ago, the connected trip is beginning to draw real investment and become a thing. It will take a very extended period of time to make it a more meaningful development. In that faraway horizon, will there indeed be any differentiation among the leading providers?

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 4 years ago

Ground Transport

Omio Buys Rival Rome2Rio in Mashup of Door-to-Door Booking Sites

If search for travel looking for door-to door trip options was a massive potential market, then Expedia, Booking Holdings, Ctrip, or Google would have already snapped up these companies, which have been laboring around that premise for years. This stuff is hard to execute, as the relatively modest exit seems to show.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 5 years ago

Omio Buys Rival Rome2Rio in Mashup of Door-to-Door Booking Sites

Airlines

The AOC Effect Comes to Travel, Whether You Like It or Not

U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her Green New Deal have stirred up debate about the path toward a sustainable travel future. She's right on time — and hopefully not too late.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 5 years ago

The AOC Effect Comes to Travel, Whether You Like It or Not

Ground Transport

Uber CEO Hopes IPO Will Solve Its Saudi Arabia Investor Problem

Uber needs to shed its Saudi Arabia investment as long as Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman remains in power, and the country bombs innocents in Yemen. Uber's leaders know they have to do this, but how they dump their Saudi investment and the extent of the divorce remain to be seen.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 5 years ago

Uber CEO Hopes IPO Will Solve Its Saudi Arabia Investor Problem

Online Travel

Booking Holdings Is Taking Its Time to Deliver On a Steep Promise

Booking.com is taking its sweet time to implement a flights-to-attractions travel offering. Some would say the pace is Google-like in its slowness. But behind the scenes, data reigns supreme, and dictates whether a product is scrapped, implemented with a twist, or then reshaped anew. Refill the popcorn. This will take a while.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 5 years ago

Booking Holdings Is Taking Its Time to Deliver On a Steep Promise