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Mobile bookings increase to over $3 billion in 2012 - over 20 million apps downloaded to date AMSTERDAM, April 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Mobile devices are taking the on line accommodation market by storm with a spectacular increase in the number of customers using mobile devices to book accommodations. Booking.com (http://www.booking.com), the largest brand in the global on line accommodation sector, has seen the total transaction value of mobile hotel bookings rise from $1 billion...

SILVER SPRING, Md., March 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Choice Hotels International, Inc. (NYSE: CHH), one of the world's largest lodging franchisors, today announced that it has entered into a global corporate agreement with Booking.com, a leading online travel agency (OTA), that attracts over 30 million unique online visitors from both leisure and business markets worldwide. This agreement with Booking.com expands the reach of the Choice Hotels brands to millions of consumers in 180...

AMSTERDAM, Jan. 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The world's best-kept travel secret is about to be revealed to U.S. consumers. Booking.com (http://www.booking.com), the largest brand in the global online accommodation sector, is set to bring an end to the "click-and-hope-for-the-best" era of online travel planning. Planet Earth's #1 accommodation site, is undertaking a major brand launch in the U.S. to introduce American travelers to a delightful booking experience that has already been...

NORWALK, Conn., Dec. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- In a recent J.D. Power and Associates consumer satisfaction study of travel websites, the Priceline Group's (Nasdaq: PCLN) Booking.com hotel reservation service ranked #1 and priceline.com ranked #3. J.D. Power and Associates' 2012 Independent Travel Website Satisfaction Report was based on responses from 2,009 consumers who made an online purchase from an independent travel website in the past 12 months. The report found that...

AMSTERDAM, Dec. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Booking.com (http://www.booking.com), the world's leading online hotel and accommodation reservation company, today announced the launch of its free native Kindle Fire app in all Amazon's Appstores. The new app allows Booking.com's customers to easily make and access their hotel and accommodation bookings anywhere, anytime via their Kindle Fire devices. The free Booking.com Kindle Fire app is available for download in all Amazon Appstores...

AMSTERDAM, Oct. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Booking.com (http://www.booking.com), the world's leading online hotel and accommodation reservation company, today announced the launch of its first Windows 8 app. This free app allows Booking.com's customers to easily make their hotel and accommodation bookings from the new Windows 8 platform using either their Windows 8 PC or Microsoft's new Surface tablet. Booking.com consistently seeks to deliver innovation to its tens of millions of...

AMSTERDAM, Oct. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Booking.com announces today that the latest release of its iPhone app has a new feature: Passbook. Passbook allows users to easily access their hotel and accommodation bookings, along with entry tickets, boarding passes and much more all in one place. Adding Passbook to the app builds upon the seamless multi-device experience Booking.com strives to deliver to its growing base of over 10 million iPhone and iPod touch users. The latest version...

SHANGHAI and AMSTERDAM, Aug. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- CTRIP.com International, Ltd. (Nasdaq: CTRIP), a leading travel service provider of hotel accommodations, airline tickets, packaged tours and corporate travel management in China ("Ctrip"), and Booking.com, the world's leading online hotel reservation service and part of the Priceline Group (Nasdaq: PCLN), today announced an agreement under which Ctrip can reach Booking.com's global portfolio of over 235,000 participating hotels...

AMSTERDAM, April 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Missed your train? Flight delayed? Need a hotel fast? No problem. Today, Booking.com, the world's leading online hotel reservation company and part of The Priceline Group (Nasdaq: PCLN), launched Booking.com Tonight. Booking.com Tonight is the first global last-minute hotel booking app offering same-night hotel rooms at special savings up to 50% over regular rates, plus the world's widest variety of accommodations, bookable all the time...

NORWALK, Conn., Sept. 26, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Priceline Group (Nasdaq: PCLN) today announced that former Microsoft executive Darren Huston, 45, has been named Chief Executive Officer of Booking.com. Booking.com is part of The Priceline Group and is the number-one online hotel reservation service in the world, offering over 165,000 hotels in 43 languages. As announced earlier this year, Booking.com's previous CEO, Kees Koolen, will transition to Chairman of Booking.com. Mr. Huston,...