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Exploring the travel payments landscape in Asia

By Linda Fox | March 20, 2024

PhocusWire discusses the complexities of travel payments in Asia with Agoda chief commercial officer Damien Pfirsch. Read More

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Booking Holdings will appeal $530M fine by Spanish competition authority

By Mitra Sorrells | February 22, 2024

Booking Holdings reported its fourth quarter and full year 2023 earnings late Thursday, with records across multiple financial metrics including revenue that soared 40% higher than 2019. Read More

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Bookings Holdings names new CFO to replace retiring Goulden

By Mitra Sorrells | December 13, 2023

Ewout Steenbergen will join the company in March as executive vice president and chief financial officer. He was most recently at S&P Global. Read More

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Booking Holdings posts record earnings, expects to grow AI, flight offerings

By Morgan Hines | November 2, 2023

Booking Holdings’ total revenue came in at $7.3 billion, showing a 21% increase over the same quarter last year, and adjusted EBITDA clocked at $3.3 billion - a 24% increase from the same quarter of... Read More

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Booking’s Fogel sees signs of “record summer travel season”

By Derek Catron | August 3, 2023

Booking Holdings enjoyed record gross travel bookings in Q2, but CEO Glenn Fogel sees even better things coming based on July figures. Read More

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Agoda unveils wholesale distribution platform for hotel partners

By Derek Catron | June 30, 2023

Booking Holdings brand Agoda now offers more transparency for hotels to track volume and rates and maximize revenues. Read More

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Booking Holdings sees opportunity to recreate "human travel agent” with generative AI

By Mitra Sorrells | May 4, 2023

The comments regarding generative AI came as the company shared its first quarter financial results, which had both gross bookings and room nights at record levels for a quarter. Read More

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Citi’s new travel portal powered by Booking Holdings goes live

By Mitra Sorrells | March 21, 2023

The site includes supply from Booking.com – such as 1.4 million hotels around the world - and is powered by technology from Rocket Travel by Agoda, another of Booking Holdings’ brands. Read More

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Travel’s movers, shakers and newsmakers 2022

By PhocusWire | December 21, 2022

These are the people and topics that have made headlines in 2022 and that we expect to hear more about in 2023. Read More

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How travel is rebounding in Asia without China

By Kathryn Walson | December 20, 2022

In the panel “Around Asia: Hello, New World,” key players in the industry discuss their observations and predictions for the region, including the takeoff of autonomous vehicles, electric aircraft and... Read More

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Pundits divided on the outlook for travel in 2023

By PhocusWire | November 21, 2022

Travel industry experts with decades of experience join forces at The Phocuswright Conference to try to make sense of current and future trends. Read More

News / Technology

Can tech help travel brands meet growing expectations?

By Alfred Siew - Techgoondu | October 13, 2022

Travel executives from Agoda, Klook and more discuss why the industry must work harder to deliver new experiences. Read More

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Guesty expands hotel offerings with acquisition of YieldPlanet

By Mitra Sorrells | September 14, 2022

Guesty is also launching a new Distribution Hub that adds direct connections with Hopper, Trip.com, Marriott Homes & Villas and Google’s hotel and vacation rental search products. Read More

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Agoda’s Tim Hughes on preparing for the coming travel boom

By Mitra Sorrells | August 15, 2022

"We don’t want to be at the starting line of the COVID travel boom standing still, we want to be racing," says Agoda's vice president of corporate development. Read More