Some financial analysts are downplaying Room Key’s potential threat to the all-important hotel businesses at online travel agencies Priceline and Expedia.
Financial analysts downplay Room Key threat to Expedia and Priceline
January 12, 2012 By 5 Comments
Travelport CEO: We have resources and momentum
November 9, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Having seen his company recently restructure its heavy debt load, Gordon Wilson, Travelport president and CEO, wants to get the word out that Travelport has “momentum.”
Booking.com driving 50% of European online hotel reservations
October 14, 2011 By 22 Comments
Booking.com has emerged overwhelmingly as the dominant distribution channel for European hotels according to a survey of more than 200 hotels.
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US government delivers transparent warning to GDSs and online travel agencies
February 14, 2011 By 4 Comments
The U.S. Department of Transportation wrote a “display bias” letter to major global distribution systems and online travel agencies, warning them “not to engage in undisclosed display bias.”
BCD Holdings to operate five online travel agencies as one unit
January 21, 2011 By 1 Comment
BCD Holdings is taking its Vayama online travel agency and uniting it with four other OTAs with presences in the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, France and Singapore and will operate them as one unit within BCD.
Expedia wants quick-strike teams, but on social media going slow
November 18, 2010 By 1 Comment
How does the world’s largest travel company, Expedia Inc., respond to the mind-numbing changes in the travel tech marketplace?
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Will online travel agencies cease selling NYC hotels after state court ruling?
November 15, 2010 By 1 Comment
It hasn’t received much publicity but a New York state court handed online travel agencies, traditional travel agencies and tour operators a stinging rebuke on the hotel tax and service fee issue — one that might have far-reaching repercussions in New York City and beyond.
Online travel agency group would bar cities and states from making intermediaries liable for hotel occupancy tax
June 30, 2010 By 3 Comments
Online travel agencies are lined up to try to bar cities from leveling hotel-occupancy taxes against intermediaries.
Will Priceline come back to the field?
March 3, 2010 By 1 Comment
Among the three U.S.-based public company online travel agencies — Expedia, Priceline and Orbitz Worldwide — Jake Fuller sees Expedia and Orbitz closing the gap a bit on a global basis with “outperformer” Priceline in 2010.
Online travel agencies, ASTA, USTOA sue NYC on new hotel tax law
December 22, 2009 By 6 Comments
MarketWatch reports that major online travel agencies, plus ASTA and the U.S. Tour Operators Association, filed a lawsuit against New York City over its new law that holds intermediaries responsible for the tax on the retail rate when they sell hotel rooms using the merchant model.
This marks the first time that tour operators have taken sides in the OTAs’ national battle with cities and counties about the hotel tax issue.
The law, which went into effect in September 2009, says “room remarketers” are responsible for the full rent, meaning they would remit tax on the net rate to the hotels, as OTAs customarily do, and then pay tax on the remaining rent, including service fees, directly to the NYC tax commissioner.
