- November 10, 2023
Booking.com launched Cruises as a new travel vertical for customers in the United States.
The move comes in response to the growing demand for cruise bookings in the U.S., which represents ...
- November 1, 2023
Competition is heating up in PYMNTS’ Provider Ranking of Travel apps as Airbnb and Booking.com remain tied for No. 1 and both gain points to score a perfect 100.
KAYAK and ...
- September 29, 2023
As the travel industry continues to evolve, the PYMNTS Provider Ranking of Travel Apps offers insights into the top movers and shakers.
There are ties, apps that have fallen, and some ...
- September 7, 2023
Online travel platform Booking.com has partnered with payment network Affirm to provide travelers with flexible payment options when making travel bookings.
Through this partnership, Affirm will be available at checkout across several Booking Holdings travel brands, expanding ...
- September 5, 2023
In the traveler’s quest to plan the perfect trip, having reliable information is crucial. The PYMNTS Provider Ranking of Travel Apps offers insights into top travel service providers, from airlines and hotels ...
- August 4, 2023
Booking Holdings’ brands are sharing among themselves what they’ve learned as they develop and implement artificial intelligence (AI)-powered tools.
So said Booking Holdings CEO Glenn Fogel during the company’s quarterly earnings ...
- August 3, 2023
Online travel company Booking Holdings reported strong results for the second quarter, driven by robust leisure travel demand and a focus on artificial intelligence (AI) technology.
“I am pleased to report that in ...
- May 27, 2023
Three in five Americans say inflation has affected their summer travel plans. But that doesn’t mean they’ve opted to forego their trips. It just means they need to be more savvy.
To ...
- May 22, 2023
Despite earnings losses, carriers predict soaring demand as the United States enters the summer travel season.
Airlines’ summer flight forecasts range from rosy to hesitant after a disappointing holiday travel season, The Wall ...
- April 25, 2023
As peak summer travel season rapidly approaches, patterns are forming in PYMNTS’ Provider Ranking of Travel Apps with fewer tied scores and many apps holding their positions month over month.
That ...
- March 21, 2023
Decades of earning miles and points for booking travel on various credit cards has led to the inevitable rise of bank-owned travel portals to use those points more directly, cutting ...
- March 20, 2023
Citi has launched a travel portal that gives customers a wealth of ways to book trips.
Citi Travel, created in partnership with Booking.com, is debuting “in time to book spring and ...
- March 17, 2023
Let’s get a move on. Seriously. Thanks to the Provider Ranking of Travel Apps that’s easy to say and do, so there’s no excuse. Fiji here we come.
The Top 5
Big ...
- February 23, 2023
Online travel agency Booking Holdings delivered a strong fourth quarter, driven in no small part by changes in its payments strategy and digital booking capabilities, notably its mobile app.
On its ...
- February 10, 2023
Voxel has partnered with Booking.com to deploy an invoice collection tool for the travel industry.
TravelDailyNews reported Friday (Feb. 10) that the Spanish B2B payments firm and the travel website developed a tool to automate invoice ...
- January 3, 2023
Tech layoffs in 2022 were nearly double those seen in the sector during the pandemic.
According to Layoffs.fyi — a website that tracks layoffs in the industry — tech companies eliminated ...
- November 15, 2022
In this month’s edition of PYMNTS’ Provider Rankings of Travel Apps, a handful remains in the same spot as before, although one new name has pushed into the top 10.
While ...
- November 2, 2022
Macroeconomic headwinds did little to slow the airspeed of Booking.com and its portfolio of brands as the largest online travel agency (OTA) saw a return to 2019 levels in flights ...
- November 2, 2022
Consumers all over the world are conducting more of their routine activities using digital methods, whether that’s booking trips, buying food, gassing up the car, shopping for any number of ...
- August 29, 2022
The great reopening is upon us: Travel is surging, airports are crowded and railways are congested. Cross-border travel is seeing a snapback.
Students are going back to school in person, shaking ...
- August 18, 2022
Citi will be debuting a new portal, Citi Travel, with Booking.com to help customers plan and book their trips, a press release from the bank said.
It comes as Americans are ...
- August 3, 2022
It’s still wheels up for Booking.com despite economic headwinds in its second quarter that slowed the takeoff to full recovery while showing solid pent-up travel demand being unleashed.
The online travel ...
- July 31, 2022
JPMorgan Chase is putting together its own full-service travel business, The Wall Street Journal wrote Saturday (July 30).
JPMorgan has been bought a booking system, a restaurant review company and a ...
- June 14, 2022
There isn’t much movement in this month’s edition of PYMNTS’ Provider Ranking of Travel apps. The 11 apps that have earned a place in the top 10 were here last ...
- May 16, 2022
Are we traveling again? We are? How wonderful. You know what Mark Twain said about travel?
Seriously. Do you know? Someone’s asking. If only there was an easy way to search ...
- March 1, 2022
You can almost feel the recovery. Mask mandates falling off. Warm weather on its way.
Show of hands, who’s up for a little getaway? Oh, absolutely everyone? Good.
You’ve come to the ...
- November 22, 2021
In today’s top Europe, Middle East and Africa news, Ericsson acquires Vonage in $6.2bn stock deal, and the U.K. leads the EU in driving global growth in the HealthTech sector. ...
- November 22, 2021
Question: When is a global travel conglomerate not a simply global travel conglomerate?
Answer: When it’s also a FinTech.
Discussing new initiatives during the recent third-quarter earnings call, Booking.com CEO Glenn Fogel ...
- September 21, 2021
Hospitality-focused B2B payments and business intelligence service Onyx CenterSource on Tuesday (Sept. 21) unveiled a partnership with online travel marketplace Booking.com for a payment platform for the travel agencies that ...
- April 29, 2021
PYMNTS’ Provider Ranking of Travel Apps traverses the known digital world, occasionally going off-road and off-the-grid in rating apps that take us to wondrous places outside. Remember outside? Sure, you ...
- January 11, 2021
Crypto.com has put in an early bet that 2021 will see a rebound in the battered travel market.
The Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency and payments platform on Monday (Jan. 11) unveiled a ...
- December 22, 2020
Russia’s federal anti-monopoly service (FAS) has accused Booking.com of reportedly violating antitrust laws in the country and abusing a dominant market position, according to Reuters Monday (Dec. 21).
FAS opened an ...
- December 10, 2020
Amadeus is teaming with Conferma Pay and Booking.com on a new streamlined travel booking and payment process, according to a press release.
The idea, the release stated, came from the need ...
- November 8, 2020
European Union regulators determining how to implement new rules governing dominant internet players may include short-term rental leaders Airbnb and Booking.com on a list of companies the guidelines cover, the ...
- October 26, 2020
Brussels-based Booking.com is speaking out against the European Union’s plans to regulate the reservation site as a “gatekeeper” in the hotel industry, according to a report in the Financial Times.
Considered ...
- August 4, 2020
Booking Holding Inc., the Connecticut-based company that owns travel website Booking.com, plans to reduce its workforce by as many as 4,250 positions as its business continues suffer during the COVID-19 ...
- January 6, 2020
As 2020 dawns, regulators are continuing to focus on taxes and possible anti-competitive behavior on the part of tech’s marquee names.
Russian regulators are seemingly taking aim at larger U.S. tech ...
- December 30, 2019
The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) in Russia has opened a probe into hospitality and reservation site Booking.com over anti-competition issues, according to a report by Reuters.
According to the regulator, Booking.com ...
- December 20, 2019
Booking.com has agreed to change the way it sells on its site, including ending time limits for offers and claiming that a room is the last one available, according to ...
- October 9, 2019
You have to give digital and mobile technology some credit — over time, the complexities of travel pricing and costs (along with other parts of the process) have become at least ...
