The world's largest online travel agency by traffic and bookings. Part of Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG).
Platform changes and revisited configuration cut pods by 30% and memory by 20% with no service code changes.
Vrbo will charge all hosts and property managers a flat 12% commission from October 29, 2026, while sharply cutting guest fees.
An opinion piece argues Booking.com's payment model lets it show guests prices below what hotels load, affecting roughly one in five independent room nights.
At Skift Global Forum, Booking Holdings CEO Glenn Fogel played down AI booking agents, said LLM traffic is "significantly below 1%" of room nights, and pitched Airbnb's hotel push as a possible win for Booking.
In a Hospitality Net op-ed, Booking.com's Peter Lochbihler argues that direct channels still dominate European hotel bookings. HOTREC, which published the underlying study, draws the opposite conclusion about concentration.
Booking.com's connectivity changelog for mid-September clarifies that price is required in every stay_change and that guest misconduct reports need a details_text of at most 240 characters — documentation corrections, not behaviour changes — alongside a second fix in six weeks to missing cancellation messages.
Booking Holdings is running five consumer AI projects, including two stealth internal startups and a soon-to-launch Agoda planner, while Expedia scrapped its single chatbot for a multi-agent architecture.
UEFA has renewed and expanded its partnership with Booking.com across five national team competitions through Women's EURO 2029, and will integrate the platform into the fan ticketing journey itself.
Europe's General Court dismissed Booking Holdings' appeal against the 2023 prohibition of its €1.63bn Etraveli acquisition, endorsing a "reverse leveraging" theory of harm that applies to dominant firms only — leaving Expedia free to keep buying in adjacent categories.
The EU's General Court has rejected Booking Holdings' appeal against the blocked €1.6 billion Etraveli acquisition, endorsing the Commission's view that the deal would have entrenched Booking's dominance in hotel distribution.
Google has rebuilt its European search results page for the Digital Markets Act, splitting aggregators from direct suppliers and stripping date filters, live pricing and the vacation rentals unit.
Booking.com's public connectivity roadmap carries three hard dates in the next eight weeks: campaign sign-ups close 1 October, campaign proofs are due 31 October, and two legacy APIs are being retired in Q4.