UK regulator to investigate Expedia and Priceline meta acquisitions

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Britain’s Office Of Fair Trading (OFT) is investigating the recent acquisitions of Trivago by Expedia and Kayak by Priceline.

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A Katz fight at a pivotal moment — Ex-CEO of Orbitz takes on Google brand-killing

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Jeff Katz, the CEO of Nextag who formerly headed Orbitz and Swissair, picked a fight with Google in the runup to a July 2 European Union deadline.

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What is the value of web-based competitions for travel brands? Apparently quite a lot

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Back in February this year, tour operator Contiki launched what appeared to some be a rather complicated competition.

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YouTube, StreetView, Facebook and music integration – all for a travel competition?

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The lengths travel brands will go to these days to come up with a competition idea. The latest being a mashup of YouTube, Google Maps and Streetview, Facebook and music.

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Expedia takes bragging rights for largest ever prize draw on Facebook

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A milestone of sorts for Expedia after launching what it claims is the biggest ever giveaway on Facebook, handing over $1 million worth of travel products at users.

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Amadeus unveils competition to improve the travel experience

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Travel technology giant Amadeus is launching a global initiative to find new ideas to “help transform the travel experience”.

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Beware of competitions on the web, nowhere to hide for Zugu

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When price comparison website Cheapflights unveiled its metasearch offshoot Zugu in February it backed the launch with a fun social media competition.

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GAP Adventures turn for dream job-picture-trip online competition

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GAP Adventures is the latest in what is becoming an increasingly long line of travel companies to turn to online competitions to raise their profile.

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How Expedia handled the crisis, took ‘air out of the competition’

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Dara Khosrowshahi, the Expedia Inc. president and CEO, was getting downright philosophical about the crisis the company faced a year or so ago, the situation that led to its fee-cutting frenzy.

“I think it was [White House Chief-of-Staff] Rahm Emanuel who said, ‘Never let a good crisis go to waste,’” Khosrowshahi says, drawing some laughs from the crowd at Citi’s 20th Annual Global Entertainment, Media & Telecommunications Conference in San Francisco Jan. 5.

The end result was Expedia eliminated air and reduced hotel booking fees and took a pretty good whack at Orbitz and Travelocity.

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