Hotel booking margins are better because consumers are much pickier with hospitality bookings, usually seeking the right location, environment and amenities.
Priceline has focused its services on the hotel booking market rather than the more competitive and relatively commoditized airline booking market.
Expedia said that revenues from hotel booking accounted for 63% of its annual revenue in 2010, compared with 12% attributed to air travel.
Just shoot over any email with confirmation details (a flight, car rental, hotel booking, etc.) and it'll update your trip and any connected calendars.
Fundamentally, Expedia's online hotel booking may be hurt as hotels offer customers bigger discounts for booking directly with them instead of through online discounters.
Fueled by robust growth in its hotel booking business, online travel agency Expedia posted a 13% increase in gross bookings and a 14% increase in revenues last quarter.
Expedia, the largest US online travel service provider in terms of booking volumes, recently announced a new agreement with eLong Inc. to further expand the global hotel booking options for users.
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The Travel Channel and hotel booking site Oyster.com worked together to draw up a list of the best hotels to find a room in which you can look Snoopy right in the eye.
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At least initially Home Inns will be hard-pressed to have the immense brand awareness of Ctrip, which has at least a third of the hotel-booking market for nontour-group travelers.
The mere expectation that he would participate in next month's Hawaii Ironman championship in Kona started people booking hotel rooms as early as March.
I'm going to an out-of-town concert next month with friends and, as usual, I ended up organizing everything, booking a hotel room and fronting the money.
In another instance, when I tried booking a hotel in San Francisco for June 25, 2012, the app merely opened a page for me to manually enter data.
Yet buying a car, booking a hotel room, or eating a meal all pale in importance compared to getting good health care or making sure your kids get a good education.
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Expedia Rewards Program is a spend-based program offering members reward points in direct proportion to the amount they spend on booking flights, hotel stays, car rentals and other services on Expedia websites.
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Then again, booking directly through a hotel offers its own challenges, the most obvious being that finding the best property with the best deal can require a lot of time-consuming comparison-shopping.
Expedia competes with other online travel agents like Priceline, Orbitz and Travelocity as well as hotel chains that offer their own online booking services.
To get a foretaste of what is to come, try hiring a car or booking a room at a top hotel without a credit card.
After the booking, Room 77, which has partnerships with a number of hotel chains, will email the customer to inform them of the type of room they received.
He told MPs that a "tranche" of hotel rooms had recently been made available after the cancellation of a block-booking by the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (Locog).
The online travel industry continues to face increasing competition from airlines and large hotel chains offering bookings directly at their websites leading to online travel agencies removing the booking fees to match the prices quoted by the suppliers themselves.
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Booking in May, my wife and I were lucky to nab the last hotel room in the park.
For trips lasting more than three nights, a couple can save 40 to 60 percent booking an empty apartment or a condo with a kitchen, instead of a hotel room.
Benefiting from growth in hotel supply and Rentalcars.com, the company marked 30% growth in international gross bookings while domestic gross booking grew by 7%.
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