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Calm before the coronavirus storm - recap of latest online travel earnings

By Steven Lerner | March 23, 2020

We've updated PhocusWire's visual history of online travel company revenues to include the most recent quarter. Read More

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Lastminute.com Group expects bookings to return in May, predicts offline competitors will fail

By Linda Fox | March 19, 2020

The business posted gains in revenue and EBITDA for full-year 2019 and claims a strong cash position to weather the COVID-19 storm. Read More

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Hotel websites hold firm in booking rankings, Airbnb makes progress

By Linda Fox | February 14, 2020

SiteMinder reveals the top sources of online bookings for hotels in 2019. Read More

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How I Got Here, episode 14 - Jerome Touze of WAYN

By Kevin May | November 21, 2019

WAYN (Where Are You Now?) was one of the first travel social networks. Co-founder and former co-CEO Jerome Touze joins hosts, David Litwak of Mozio and PhocusWire's Kevin May. Read More

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VIDEO: Brent Hoberman on the missed chance to buy Booking.com

By Jill Menze | May 17, 2019

During a pair of interviews at Phocuswright Europe, Brent Hoberman discussed his investment strategy, emerging technologies and much more. Read More

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Lastminute.com Group now also a media company, offers out marketing services

By Linda Fox | April 15, 2019

Lastminute.com Group launches Forward as an independent media business. Read More

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How travel sites can minimise booking abandonment

By Viewpoints | August 9, 2018

This is a viewpoint by Graham Charlton, editor-in-chief for SaleCycle. Booking abandonment is a problem for travel websites, but there’s still plenty they can do to keep the problem to a minimum. I Read More

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Booking.com adds packages, rail and cruises

By Kevin May | December 22, 2017

Booking.com has quietly started testing partnerships for other travel products, including package trips via a deal with Lastminute.com. Read More

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Lastminute.com buys Weg, as Europe mid-level consolidation continues

By Kevin May | December 21, 2017

Lastminute.com Group has secured a deal to buy the Comvel business from ProSiebenSat.1 Group, giving it a chance to grow its presence in Germany. Read More

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Is the UK's ad police going after dynamic pricing?

By Martin Cowen | January 4, 2017

The UK's Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has upheld complaints about "misleading prices" in adverts from Ryanair and lastminute.com, with the ruling on the latter potentially having implications Read More

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Lastminute.com finds the light amid the darkness

By Martin Cowen | October 26, 2016

A 20% overnight increase in searches would send the business analysts at most OTAs into mathematical meltdown, delving deep into the data to identify the patterns and create order from the chaos. O Read More

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Direct hotel booking battle - a potted history [INFOGRAPHIC]

By Kevin May | August 23, 2016

The seeds of the current face-off between hotels and intermediaries go back to the mid-1990s, when online travel agencies first arrived on the scene. The creation of Expedia, Travelocity, Orbitz, L Read More

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Executing on a marketing plan - hello, TV

By Kevin May | April 25, 2016

Very few online travel companies can try and compete with the likes of Expedia Inc and the Priceline Group in ad-spending power - so other approaches are needed. Yet whilst the likes of Lastminute. Read More

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Lastminute.com says too hard for consumer startups to enter travel battle

By Kevin May | April 21, 2016

Travel startups attempting to muscle in on consumer travel will face an uphill task if they want to challenge the status quo. That's the pessimistic view from the deputy CEO of Lastminute.com Group Read More

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Why you should never consider a travel planning startup

By Viewpoints | January 14, 2016

Having founded WorldMate and Desti (which also swallowed Plnnr), not a week goes by without me being approached by an entrepreneur who has started/is starting/is contemplating a travel startup. NB: Read More

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