When it comes to putting all its brands on a global hotel platform, Priceline continues to think differently than its rivals — and just keeps growing.
While Orbitz Worldwide and Expedia Inc. separately have been laboring to get their far-flung brands on global hotel-technology platforms, Jeffery Boyd, the Priceline CEO, says, in essence, “no thank you.”
During the third quarter, which ended Sept. 30, Priceline saw its hotel room nights grow 47.4% to 40.6 million year over year, and 12.5% sequentially. From a lower base, Expedia saw its room nights increase 16% in the third quarter to 28.7 million compared with the same period in 2010.
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