Tag: Booking.com

Booking.com and CHOOOSE partner for “mindful” travel vision

Reading Time: 2 minutesWorldwide: Amsterdam-based online travel agency Booking.com has strategically partnered with Norwegian climatetech company CHOOOSE as part of their shared vision to make it easier for everyone to travel more “mindfully”.

Booking.com cites hiring “complexities” for Iranian job withdrawals

Reading Time: 2 minutesIran / Netherlands: Online travel agency Booking.com has revealed that it had to withdraw a “small number” of job offers that were made to prospective employees in Iran earlier this year due to “complexities” that it uncovered in its international hiring process.

Eurostat: 2022 platform tourism levels surpass 2019 figures

Reading Time: 3 minutesEurope: Eurostat, the statistical agency of the European Union [EU], has revealed that guests spent around 199 million nights in short-term rental accommodation booked via Airbnb, Booking.com, Expedia or Tripadvisor in the EU in the first half of 2022.

JP Morgan Chase to offer full service travel agency

Reading Time: < 1 minuteUS: JP Morgan is putting together a full service travel business, which could make it the third largest travel agent in the world.

Booking.com expected to cut 3000 jobs worldwide

Reading Time: 3 minutesAmsterdam: Online travel agency Booking.com has announced that it plans to cut up to 3000 jobs worldwide due to a reorganisation of the company

Travel app downloads reach 143m installs in Q2

Reading Time: 2 minutesWorldwide: The travel app category reported strong year-on-year growth rates in Q2, with vacation rental apps leading the way in the recovery of the accommodation sector post-pandemic.  With the vaccination and infection rates rising and dropping simultaneously, travel app downloads reached 143 million installs during the second quarter. Overall downloads were up by 104 per […]

Booking to repay $110m in Covid aid to governments

Reading Time: 2 minutesNetherlands / US: Online travel agency Booking Holdings has revealed it will repay up to $110 million in coronavirus aid to governments who supported the company during the height of the pandemic. including around $78 million [€64 million] to the Dutch government over an executive pay row. Booking announced it would repay the aid in a […]

Holidu appoints Thresh as MD for North America

Reading Time: 2 minutesGermany / US: Munich-based holiday rental search engine Holidu is extending its growth into the United States with the appointment of former Booking.com regional director for North America, Stephen Thresh, as its new managing director for North America. Despite the Covid-19 pandemic hitting the travel industry especially hard, Holidu has emerged from it by achieving […]

Booking.com partners with cryptocurrency platform Crypto.com

Reading Time: 2 minutesHong Kong: Booking.com has announced that it has partnered with payment and cryptocurrency platform Crypto.com to deliver travel deals to Crypto.com users, exclusively via the company’s app. As a result, Crypto.com users will be able to benefit from discounts of up to 25 per cent when making accommodation reservations through Booking.com. Those who pay using […]

Vacation rental revenues halved, $35b loss in 2020

Reading Time: 2 minutesWorldwide: According to data from StockApps, the revenue of the global vacation rental industry is expected to drop by $35 billion in 2020, which equates to a 42 per cent drop year-on-year. In 2017 the industry generated $78.7 million in revenue, which rose by seven per cent to almost $84 billion in 2019. However in […]