Sentences with phrase «many travel companies»

While it received approval to dig a two - mile test tunnel beneath the headquarters of Musk's space travel company, SpaceX, in Hawthorne, California, the Boring Company will have to convince a number of local governments that its tunnels will be useful in order to conduct enough research and development to make an operational tunnel network a reality.

«I've had several inquiries from Chinese interested in purchasing properties in Pyongyang, Wonsan and Sinuiju,» said the founder of INDPRK, a travel company in Dandong that runs tours to North Korea, who goes by the name Griffin Che.

Southwest Airlines isn't selling flights, they are selling the experience of travelling as affordably as possible, making them the most accessible travel company to the widest range of people.

Expedia's stock surged after the travel company reported better - than - expected quarterly sales and a sharp increase in booking volume.

Travel companies were quick to pounce on the trend, offering some awesome deals that both Trump and Hillary supporters alike will love.

Glenn Fogel, Bookings Holdings CEO, and CNBC's Seema Mody talk about the company's better - than - expected fourth quarter sales as the online travel company receives a boost from a rise in reservations and strong performance from its international business.

Bruce Poon Tip, founder of the adventure travel company, encourages distractions to expand employees» horizons

Airbnb announced a program Thursday that will expand it into something like a full - fledged travel company.

To attract more customers, travel companies have aggressively cut their rates.

«While they wanted to focus on distribution methods and details, I began explaining my vision for a whole host of new Student enterprises, from magazines to travel companies to banks.

British tour operator Thomas Cook said on Thursday it had entered into a strategic alliance with Expedia to make the online travel company its preferred provider of hotels for certain holiday sales.

Such expertise led American Airlines and several other travel companies to help set up the trip and use it to pick the brains of these veteran fliers.

He also owns The Washington Post and founded Blue Origin, the space - travel company.

They also secured funding from the Ontario Centre of Excellence and Lewie Gonsalves, a Toronto entrepreneur who also co-founded travel company Worldwide Quest.

Thomas Cook said it had entered into an alliance with Expedia to make the online travel company its preferred provider of hotels for certain holiday sales.

Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi discusses the travel company's latest earnings report and lays out his outlook for the rest of the year.

This vacation deficit is not that surprising, «when you consider that consumer confidence still hovers at relatively low levels coupled with uncertainty about the economy and specifically consumers» own job security,» said Laura Mandala, managing director of Mandala Research, a tourism and travel company.

Newly named Expedia CEO Mark Okerstrom discusses former CEO Dara Khosrowshahi's exit to take the helm at Uber and what he will be leading the online travel company.

The adventure travel company Intrepid Travel has just announced a new category of Digital Detox Trips in which participants pledge, in writing, to swear off all digital devices including cellphones and cameras.

From robot butlers to paying closer attention to bloggers, some travel companies are trying everything possible to lure millennials.

As employees of a travel company, «being connected to the outdoors is very important,» he says.

The travel company United Continental Holdings (ual) came under fire last month when a passenger was dragged off one of its overbooked flights, a fiasco that dragged as much as $ 90 million off the value of Buffett's stake as United stock plummeted amid the ensuing outrage.

Here's a good example: Conde Nast Traveler magazine polled its roughly 810,000 affluent subscribers on travel companies and their social responsibility.

LP Maurice, the CEO and co-founder of Montreal - based bus travel company Busbud, tells me he thinks that first working at a startup is helpful for those hoping for eventual new - business launches.

Jonathan Brunger, general manager of Adventure Life, a Missoula, Mont. - based small group adventure travel company, estimates that 50 percent of the company's employees bike to work during the summer months.

«Having a ship sink as a travel company is a big deal,» says Lorrie King, a partner with Deloitte who coached G Adventures on their Best Managed Companies application process.

If a user is browsing for trip packages on a travel website, for example, that user will later be shown vacation ads on Facebook from that same travel company.

The acquisition, expected to close later this year, represents the online travel company; s initial foray into the dining industry.

«We're excited to join the world's premier online travel company,» said Steve Hafner, Kayak's chief executive and co-founder, in a statement.

When Maelle Gavet accepted a job at Priceline in the summer of 2015, the executive thought she might one day become the travel company's CEO.

Travel companies tap into this behavior and offer coupons and discounts for weekend bookings via social media.

Analysts estimate Priceline is paying about 19 times 2013 EBITDA for Kayak at a time when other online travel companies trade at a multiple of 11.5 on average.

That's comparable with other online - travel companies like TripAdvisor (TRIP), which is up 95 % this year, and recent web IPOs like Facebook (FB), up 102 %, and LinkedIn (LNKD), up 99 %.

No. 120 on the list: «A travel company that arranges for people to stay at others» houses» sounds familiar.

Of the six airlines in the top 15 largest travel companies, including Delta Air Lines ($ 15.77 B), Ryanair ($ 15.35 B), United Continental ($ 10.43 B), Southwest Airlines ($ 9.28), Singapore Airlines ($ 9.21 B) and Lufthansa ($ 9.11 B), three are headquartered in the U.S., two in Europe, and one in Asia.

That will come soon after construction begins, from contracts with the usual distribution - shipping - travel companies.

Invoicera helps our tours and travel company in a great way.

Obinna Ekezie is the co-founder and CEO of Wakanow.com, the leading full - service, inbound and outbound online travel company in Africa.

Prior to co-founding Zillow, Rich founded Expedia, an online travel company, as a group within Microsoft Corporation, a software company, in 1994, which Microsoft spun out as Expedia, Inc. in 1999, and Rich served as Expedia's President, Chief Executive Officer and as a member of its board of directors from 1999 to 2003.

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In 1999, at the age of 24, Spencer co-founded Hotwire.com, a leading Internet travel company, which a few years later he sold to InterActiveCorp (the parent company of Expedia).

In 1999, Spencer co-founded Hotwire, Inc., an online travel company, and managed several of Hotwire's product lines before Hotwire was acquired in 2003 by IAC / InterActiveCorp, Expedia, Inc.'s parent company at the time.

Greg previously served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Starz, an integrated global media and entertainment company, from January 2013 until December 2016; as a director of DIRECTV (and its predecessor), a provider of digital television entertainment services, from June 2008 to June 2010; as a director of Expedia, Inc.; an online travel company, from 1999 to 2003 and Chairman from 1999 to 2002; as a director of Starbucks Corporation, a retailer of specialty coffee, from 1999 to 2006; as a director of Barnes & Noble, Inc., a retailer of books and digital media, from September 2011 to April 2014; and as a director of Electronic Arts, Inc..

As can be seen in Figure 3, Southwest's ROIC is surpassed only by low - cost regional provider Allegiant Travel Company (ALGT), a featured Long Idea in November 2015.

Allegiant Travel Company finds itself on this month's Most Attractive Stocks list in part because of its consistent profit growth.

Haiyin Capital also invested an undisclosed amount in XCOR Aerospace, a Mojave, Calif., commercial space - travel company that makes spacecraft and engines and has worked with NASA.

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Spencer has served on the board of directors of TripAdvisor, Inc., an online travel company, since September of 2013.

Throughout the initial phases of my full - service online travel company, I focused as much on marketing as I did on our actual services.

His experience leading a global online travel company is a logical fit.