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Sabre to Auction Off Lastminute

2014-08-18 by Phil Butler

Sabre Holdings is to sell Lastminute.com according to their announcement. The advisory firm of Houlihan Lokey will oversee the auction of the once profitable booking platform.

Tags: booking, booking sites, Houlihan Lokey, LastMinute, Sabre, Sabre holdings

Q1 Profit and Loss: Weeding Out the OTAs

2014-05-09 by Phil Butler

In a 2014 economy seemingly stagnated OTAs and other travel businesses are feeling some pain. This is not the case for Priceline Group, which just showed a 1st quarter earnings jump of some 36% on international bookings. However, this company’s gain is evidently Orbitz’s and other digital travel business loss. Are we seeing a “weeding out” of good travel entities versus bad ones?

Tags: booking sites, Booking.com, Expedia, lastminute.com, Orbitz, OTA's, SABR, Sabre, travel sites, Travelocity

Britain’s PM Uses Online Booking: Well Maybe

2011-08-04 by Phil Butler

Breakfast with the Prime Minister

It should come as no real surprise that Britain’s Prime Minister, David Cameron, gets his vacation deals via the Internet too. According to the news from Travelmatch and the Daily Mail, Cameron’s booked a luxurious villa in Italy via the online travel portal. He and his family will be headed out on vacation via budget airline, the whole shebang, just like you or I. Well, almost – read on.

Tags: booking sites, Brent Hoberman, Chianti, David Cameron, deals, Eton College, European travel, Italy tourism, Italy travel, LastMinute, PR, Press, press secretary, Travel booking, travel sites, Tuscany travel, vacation deals

Once A Boy Cried Tripwolf – Softly

2010-11-06 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Tripwolf landing

Tripwolf is one of the most complete and useful online travel tools in the world. With its new iPhone and Facebook integration the service should be at the top of the travel booking heap, but somehow it is not. Regardless, Tripwolf is a complete online travel experience, maybe even the best one yet.

Tags: booking sites, iPhone app, online travel, online travel booking, travel app, travel guides, travel portal, travel startup, travel tools, TripWolf, Venture funding

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