Good Sunday morning from Seattle . . . Our first Online Travel Update for 2025 is below. The past two weeks produced a number of interesting stories, including the Department of Justice’s attempt to stop the planned Amex GBT / CWT merger, interesting predictions coming out of Skift’s recent Megatrends events and valuable reminders for
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2024 in Review: Key Highlights from Online Travel Updates
Good Sunday morning and Happy New Year!! We are again providing a roundup of a few of the stories that we feel made the biggest impact in the online travel industry over this past year (and continuing into this year). Wishing all our readers a great 2025.
Breaking Down the FTC’s Junk Fee Rule: What’s Next for Travel and Events
Good Sunday morning from Seattle and happy holidays . . . Well, we definitely missed this one. Last week I wrongly predicted that we would see little near term progress on national junk fee regulation. With leadership at the FTC poised to change with the upcoming presidential transition, many thought that the FTC’s ongoing efforts…
Travel Trends Under the Spotlight: Google, Booking, and Loyalty Programs
Good Sunday morning from Seattle . . . Our Online Travel Update for the week ending Friday, December 13, 2024, is below.
Google and its “efforts” to comply with the DMA again garnered most of the industry’s attention. As I said last week, expect this story to continue well into 2025. Skift also provided a…
Travel Industry Trends: Junk Fees, Layoffs, and Expedia’s Package Deal Shake-Up
Good Sunday evening from Seattle . . .
As many of you know, I returned a few weeks ago from an extended sabbatical – three months well spent traveling, cooking, reading and driving my wife crazy. Now that I am back in the office, it is time to start again our Online Travel Update. We…
Travel Tidbits: Breaking News and Insights from the Online Travel World
By Greg Duff
Good Sunday morning from Seattle . . . Our weekly Online Travel Update (my last for the next 3 months) for the week ending August 2, 2024, is below. Last week was a busy week in the online travel industry with second quarter earnings releases, junk fee updates and important competition announcements in the EU…
Online Travel Update: Google's Shift on Cookies & Booking.com's Legal Scrape
By Greg Duff
Good Sunday morning from Seattle . . . Our weekly Online Travel Update for the week ending Friday, July 26, 2024, is below. It was a relatively quiet week this past week in the online travel industry, at least until Google’s (not surprising) announcement. Enjoy.
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- Google Changes Direction Again. So much for those many sessions
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This week’s Online Travel Update: Amazon’s Prime Day travel offerings, Kayak’s new business booking features, and a record fine for Booking.com.
By Greg Duff
Good Sunday morning from Seattle… Our weekly Online Travel Update for the week ending Friday, July 19, 2024, is below. This week’s Update features a variety of stories, including news on the latest fines to be levied on Booking.com. Enjoy.
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- Recent Prime Day Travel Offerings Re-Kindle Amazon Rumors. Regular readers of our weekly Update will
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Weekly Travel Update: Marriott's New SMB Platform, Expedia's Co-Branded Cards, and Amazon's Prime Day Travel Deals
Good Sunday morning from Seattle . . . Our weekly Online Travel Update for the week ending Friday, July 12, 2024, is below. Marriott and its launch of a new small and medium sized business travel platform garnered most of the attention this past week. While announcements by Expedia and Sumitomo Mitsui Card underscore an…
Unlocking Trends: HOTREC’s Distribution Insights and Kayak’s SME Revolution
By Greg Duff
Good Saturday afternoon from Manson, Washington…I hope everyone is enjoying their holiday week/weekend, at least those of you in the United States. Our weekly Online Travel Update for the week ending Friday, July 5, 2024, is below. As you can seek, it was a quiet week. Enjoy.
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- HOTREC Releases 2024 Distribution Study. European hospitality association
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