Expedia Tops Estimates In Q3, Promises Tougher Competition With Enhanced Trivago & Newer Offerings

The highlight of its earnings call was the recent Priceline-TripAdvisor collaboration through Booking.com's participation on TripAdvisor's Instant Booking platform. Expedia's management spoke at length over the strengthening of its metasearch platform, Trivago, which might offer some competition to Instant Booking in the future. However, Expedia did admit that, in case TripAdvisor decides to give it more branding opportunity on the Instant Booking platform, then Expedia might also consider the p...