travelocity

Update: It was pointed out to me that Travelocity's transactions actually declined about 17% in the second quarter.

The may not be able to beat a major online travel site like Travelocity, but they can compete fairly for that business.

So, does that mean Travelocity would attempt to acquire a hotel business, as Priceline did with Booking. com and Expedia did with Venere?

Travelocity and Open Table will provide exclusive flight, car rental, and vacation packages, as well as hotel and restaurant bookings.

And, perhaps Travelocity sees Latin America as a region where it can be a real force.

Officials speak in respectful tones about Booking. com's relative dominance in Europe.

Travelocity never has to take a campaign down for redesign; it merely has to feed the engine new creative and messaging.

Still, if Travelocity is late to the game, the global hotel business is said to have a $300 billion potential.

I'm unsure how that compares with the growths or declines of Sabre's GDS or airlines solutions businesses.

With the static and mass messages kaput, gone too are Travelocity's fixed sets of campaign creative.

A representative for Travelocity says "a fraction of overall bookings" get dropped.

No word from Travelocity who might feel a tad conflicted on the subject.

Bought by rival Travelocity in 2005, it was possibly the most important site of its kind to emerge from the UK.

Its messages are now targeted in real-time based on visitors' most recent search activities.

Use flight brokers such as travelocity, expedia and opodo.

The GDSs are cash cows, but Travelocity, for example, probably is among Sabre's fastest growing businesses.

If a message is performing well for spa packages, for example, Travelocity can immediately deploy other similar messages for other packages.

At the bottom of hotel displays from Travelocity on Yahoo Travel you'll find banner ads from IgoUgo, which look like the following