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"Expedia is providing support to any employees transitioning out of the company, " the company said in a news release.

A few Choice hotels that have independent contracts with Expedia still can be found its sites, but just a handful.

At the time of writing this book, Minh T. Nguyen was a website development engineer with Expedia. com.

With FrontPage 2002, you can add an Expedia map or a link to the Expedia Web site to see a dynamic map with a location already marked.

The company's market share is five times bigger than that of its nearest competitor, eLong Inc. , a unit of Expedia Inc.

"In the early days of Expedia, there were lots of passionate arguments about things, and we'd really go at it, " he says.

There is no doubt that Expedia has gained new market clout in this economic downturn.

After contacting Expedia for help, the company denied recollection of the conversation, and offered a $100 hotel voucher.

In 2004, the company said it had about 200 employees in the Tacoma call center.

Now that this no booking fee promotion has been made permanent, it will further reduce Expedia's annual air revenue.

In 2008, 44% of Expedia's global revenue came from the sale of airline tickets, which brought less than 15% of the company's global revenue.

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

When travelers book their flight and hotel simultaneously on Expedia, the result is called a Vacation Package.

Nokia has partnered with Expedia for the US and UK launch of the tool after using HRS for a replica system in Germany and Finland.

Thus, Expedia is harnessing the collective creative wisdom of the American traveler to rename its package booking offering.

Online travel company Expedia Inc. announced Wednesday it will close its Tacoma call center by the end of the year.

When asked whether Expedia could compete against Priceline Inc's booking. com, Khosrowshahi said that the market in Europe was "huge" .

Khosrowshahi says metasearch is not one of Expedia's top 3 channels, but it's an important one.

Furthermore, contributions from individuals may be matched twice over by Expedia, Inc. and the UN Foundation.

In fact, that Hampton Inn hadn't been taking reservations since that morning, yet Expedia was accepting reservations for it.

a unit of Expedia Inc. , has been in Latin America since 2004, and opened a Sao Paulo office about a year and a half ago.

It didn't matter that I had an Expedia reservation number -- I didn't have anything from the hotel chain itself.

The deal will make Tencent eLong's second biggest shareholder after Expedia, which owns 56 per cent of the company.

Hotels that ignore these "sales opportunities" are risking losing their "preferred status" with Expedia.

Several months later Expedia went public, a process Harford helped facilitate by running investor relations.

Priceline wouldn't confirm or deny whether it has been impacted by American Airlines-related developments at Orbitz and Expedia.

In contrast, Ctrip co-founder Fan Min still runs his company, which is now valued at $10 billion, more than Diller's Expedia itself.

Expedia's corporate travel business still is small relative to Expedia Inc. 's leisure and media businesses.

The second-place winner will win a $500 Expedia credit. Voters also have the opportunity to win one of several $250 travel credits.

Expedia- Much like Orbitz, a good resource for finding and booking discount flights, hotels and cars.

Expedia. co. uk with 10% came out slightly ahead of sister company hotels. co. uk (9%).

Mr. Chheda: At Microsoft I worked on several acquisitions and deals, including the IPO of the travel Web site Expedia. com.

Expedia's approach is similar to smaller and midsize hotel chains and boutique and luxury hotel brands.

Choice yanked their inventory for two weeks before the parties came to an agreement and signed a new three-year deal a couple of weeks back.

The project was spearheaded by Expedia UK's director of online partner marketing, Alex Gisbert.

Expedia is to power a new hotel search system on Nokia GPS handsets in the US and UK using the mobile manufacturer's Ovi maps system.

We logged on to Expedia -- the largest online travel agency -- and were lucky to find a reservation at a Hampton Inn eight miles away.

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Expedia Travel Agent Affiliate Programs (TAAP) launched in Australia, Canada and New Zealand.

Expedia says travelers can also request changes and cancellations through TripAssist without being subject to additional fees.

Now, the former Expedia CEO is jumping back into the online travel game.

Alas, for Expedia and American Express Business Travel, there is such symmetry between their own research and business goals.

Expedia is waiving the fee to those who sign up and transact before the end of April.

On Google, however, you'll see results from online travel agencies such as Expedia as well as travel search engines such as Kayak.

In the first quarter of 2009, due to the "no booking fee" promotion, Expedia's revenue per ticket declined 14%.

Expedia has also dropped fees for New Zealand customers.

Microsoft, for example, spent millions on obtaining the rights to the name " Expedia" ahead of its launch in the mid-1990s.

The tool marks the first time TripAdvisor destination content is available on Expedia. com.

Tencent invested $84. 4 million in eLong for a 16% stake, while Expedia increased its holdings of eLong from to 56% from 48%.

When travelers book them at the same time, Expedia can offer prices that airlines and hotels won't reveal separately.

According to Expedia's estimates, travelers leave billions in potential savings on the table every year.

Now, Google users can plug in dates and cities, but only get links to other booking sites, such as Orbitz, Expedia and Hotwire.

Expedia Inc. 's Hotwire unit acquired a controlling interest in CarRentals. com in 2008.

The survey for hotels. com, part of the Expedia group, was conducted among over 1, 900 travellers between May 11-28 this year.

Most people think that Expedia Inc invented the media model for travel sites, but Ryanair is also pretty good at monetizing its traffic.

In May Tencent, another online giant, snapped up 16% of eLong, a Chinese online travel company that is part-owned by Expedia.

TripAssist has been downloaded over 100, 000 times, and Expedia has seen transactions completed on mobile phones increase 25%.

Use flight brokers such as travelocity, expedia and opodo.

Expedia, the online travel firm, says bookings to London have more than tripled from last year during the period of the royal nuptials.

Expedia says TAAP currently has 8, 000 members worldwide.

Expedia sites offer nearly 50, 000 hotels in the EMEA region and over 10, 000 in APAC countries.

Egencia's revenue in the third quarter was about 3. 5% of Expedia's leisure revenue.

Also OTAs such as Expedia share weekly city wise production rankings for hotels to be aware of who is eating their market share.

Case Study: Expedia's Revenue from a New York City Boutique Hotel under net rate contract

Furthermore, hoteliers should develop a robust strategy to decrease over-dependence on Expedia and offset loss of business from this OTA

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