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Booking beats on room nights during holiday travel season

BOOKING Holdings, the parent to travel brands including Kayak and Priceline, delivered better-than-expected fourth-quarter results following a bustling holiday season.

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As at the end of 2023, Booking Holdings employed about 23,600 people.

Booking.com could cut jobs as part of reorganisation plan

ONLINE travel agency Booking.com could cut jobs as part of a review of its organisational structure, it said on Saturday (Nov 9).

Booking.com expresses disappointment with the ruling, and maintains that it operates in a competitive market.

Booking.com’s price curbs on hotels may hinder competition: EU top court

The restrictions don’t seem to be necessary for the company’s economic viability, but are not anti-competitive under EU laws, say judges

Booking's forecast is likely to reignite concerns over a broader slowdown in consumer spending on travel, even though the company’s second-quarter results were solid.

Booking’s soft forecast overshadows second-quarter earnings beat

BOOKING, the parent company to almost a dozen travel brands including Kayak and Priceline, delivered a disappointing forecast for the third quarter, even as it posted second-quarter results that mostl...

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Booking.com sounds alarm on AI-enabled travel scams

AS TRAVELLERS rush to book their summer getaways, Booking.com’s Internet safety boss said to watch out for supercharged artificial intelligence (AI) scams.

Booking Holdings said it expects growth of 4 to 6 per cent in room-night bookings, less than the 7.4 per cent increase analysts were expecting.

Booking says room reservations to slow amid Middle-East conflict

BOOKING Holdings, owner of travel brands Kayak and Priceline, said it expects room-night reservations to slow in the current quarter as tensions in the Middle East curb regional tourism.

Booking Holdings plans to raise 2.75 billion euros (S$4 billion) from a euro-denominated bond sale.

Booking.com owner sells debt for stock buyback as travel cools

THE owner of travel website Booking.com is selling debt to fund a stock buyback after its shares plunged last week on the back of disappointing earnings.

Booking.com works as an intermediary between property owners and guests.

Booking.com settles Italian tax dispute with 94 million euros payment

TRAVEL website Booking.com has agreed to pay about 94 million euros (S$137 million) to settle a tax dispute in Italy, Genoa prosecutors said on Friday (Nov 10).

The company has greater exposure in Europe and the Middle East than rivals such as Expedia Group.

Booking results beat expectations, buoyed by strong summer travel

BOOKING Holdings fell after the company said travel demand had been diminished by the Israel-Hamas war, even while forecasting growth and reporting third-quarter earnings that beat expectations.