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Travel Booking News

Essential news about Expedia, Booking.com, TripAdvisor, and the leading online travel brands. Our editors and journalists bring readers breaking news and exclusive reports from the sector.

Online Travel

New iPad app iTravel combines inspiration with booking, but isn’t an Apple product

The travel inspiration with social integration field is quite crowded and without content to distinguish iTravel from the others, the only thing the company may have going for it is an enviable name.

Skift | 12 years ago

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Why Kayak wants its IPO now and why it thinks $22 a share is the right price

A dream deferred no longer -- maybe. Kayak can almost taste the public markets now, but as its IPO roadshow kicks into gear, this is not yet a done deal.

Skift | 12 years ago

Hotels

Qantas gets into online accommodation with Hooroo launch

Every new travel site is a new kind of travel site. How Qantas competes with specialists/startups in online rentals/shares remains to be seen, though it has the advantage of packaging deals with air reservations.

Skift | 12 years ago

Online Travel

Kayak downplays threat from Google Travel in IPO materials

Expect Kayak to increase its leave of absence from the classic metasearch approach and to expand into new travel verticals with its Kayak booking path. Others, including Room 77, already are following Kayak's lead.

Skift | 12 years ago

Online Travel

Kayak hits the road with $100 million IPO try

Start your engines. Kayak is beginning its road show in a bid to raise more than $100 million in an IPO. The company will face tough questions about Google's acquisition of ITA Software and whether it can paint a big enough growth story to satisfy would-be investors.

Skift | 12 years ago

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China’s Ctrip, hearing footsteps, dips into $500m marketing budget

With its perch threatened by foreign-backed and internal competitors in China, Ctrip is upping the ante with a substantial marketing campaign. It's all an unwitting advertisement for the ratcheted-up competitive travel market in China.

Skift | 12 years ago

Hotels

Wyndham Vacation Rentals launches new site and starts to rebrand

The new Wyndham Vacation Rentals site offers some modern, e-commerce pizazz. The rebranding to a more widely known brand makes sense, too.

Skift | 12 years ago

Online Travel

OTA Yatra may have raised $14.5 million in Series D funding

This should help refill Yatra's coffers, as the investment amount if correct is just a few million shy of what it spent to acquire Travelocity's Travelguru.com last week

Skift | 12 years ago

Online Travel

Skyscanner: The unhyped Scottish startup that took off

Nice to see an OTA build outside of the U.S. bubble.

Skift | 12 years ago

Hotels

Room 77 to remain in the cloud after Amazon outage

Travel companies should fine-tune their cloud strategies after an Amazon Web Services outage took down Room 77, Pinterest, Instagram and Netflix. Given the cost-savings and efficiencies of cloud computing, travel companies won't be abandoning such services -- nor should they -- any time soon.

Skift | 12 years ago