Booking Com news and trends

Booking Holdings Reports 40% Increase in ‘Connected Trip’ Transactions
Earnings // October 30, 2024

Booking Holdings is seeing early results from growth initiatives while also recording better-than-expected gains in the third quarter. The company’s efforts to advance its “connected trip” vision, to continue developing its artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities and to grow alternative accommodations all saw progress during the...

Booking.com Expands AI-Powered Travel Features
artificial intelligence // October 30, 2024

Digital travel platform Booking.com is expanding its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered features. The expansion, announced by the Dutch company Wednesday (Oct. 30), is part of a larger embrace of AI tools within the travel sector. Among the new features is Smart Filter, which lets travelers describe their ideal property in...

Booking Holdings Says ‘Connected Trip’ Attracts New, Repeat Travelers
Earnings // May 02, 2024

Online travel company Booking Holdings is seeing results from its deployment of new tech-driven initiatives. These initiatives include its “connected trip” vision, its artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities and its enhanced Genius loyalty program, Booking Holdings CEO Glenn Fogel said Thursday (May 2) during the company’s quarterly earnings call. While distinct from...

Booking.com Forms Virtual Card Partnership With WEX
Travel Payments // April 25, 2024

Global commerce platform WEX has launched a virtual card partnership with Booking.com. The new arrangement, announced in a news release Thursday (April 25), expands on the two companies’ 11-year-old partnership, with WEX becoming Booking.com’s virtual card provider and WEX’s payment solutions supporting Booking.com’s travel-related products and services sales. “Building...

Interviews & Exclusives
Consumers See Summer Travel as Essential but Look for Bargains

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 Street Journal (WSJ) reported in April. Southwest, for example, saw a quarterly loss of $159 million, which it attributed partly to a travel dip over […]

Invisible Payments Are the Driving Force That Transforms and Connects Ecosystems

November 02, 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...

Indian Consumers Seek Relief From Cross-Border Education, Travel Payments Friction

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,...

Why Booking.com has Made Payments a Strategic Priority

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...

Quick Reads
Booking Holdings Reports 40% Increase in ‘Connected Trip’ Transactions

October 30, 2024
Booking Holdings is seeing early results from growth initiatives while also recording better-than-expected gains in the third quarter. The company’s efforts to advance its “connected trip” vision, to continue developing its artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities and to grow alternative accommodations all saw progress during the quarter, Booking Holdings CEO Glenn Fogel said Wednesday (Oct. 30) […]

Booking.com Expands AI-Powered Travel Features

October 30, 2024
Digital travel platform Booking.com is expanding its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered features. The expansion, announced by the Dutch company Wednesday (Oct. 30), is part of a larger embrace of AI tools within the travel sector....

Booking Holdings Says ‘Connected Trip’ Attracts New, Repeat Travelers

May 02, 2024
Online travel company Booking Holdings is seeing results from its deployment of new tech-driven initiatives. These initiatives include its “connected trip” vision, its artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities and its enhanced Genius loyalty program, Booking...

Booking.com Forms Virtual Card Partnership With WEX

April 25, 2024
Global commerce platform WEX has launched a virtual card partnership with Booking.com. The new arrangement, announced in a news release Thursday (April 25), expands on the two companies’ 11-year-old partnership, with WEX becoming Booking.com’s...