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...sick of handing over part of their profits to online travel bookers. So they tried last spring to persuade the operators of the largest hotel in Cendant's Ramada franchise, the 1,015-room New Yorker in Manhattan, to avoid business from online agents like Expedia, Hotels.com Travelocity and Orbitz, which take a cut for every room they fill. "We had to tell them no," recalls Tom McCaffrey, director of marketing at the New Yorker. "These sites fill 200 rooms a night for us, more than Ramada's website and toll-free phone line together...
...Cendant, the online onslaught was beginning to feel like water torture as cyberbookers chipped away at its core business: playing middleman between customers and the company's many franchisees. So last month CEO Henry Silverman, a veteran wheeler-dealer, moved to protect his turf by agreeing to buy Orbitz for $1.25 billion. The acquisition catapults Silverman to the top tier of online travel. His biggest rival there is another celebrity CEO, Barry Diller--the onetime Hollywood mogul who created the Fox network--whose IAC/InterActiveCorp owns Expedia, Hotels.com and Hotwire. That these inventive personalities are now jockeying over the online travel...
...listed e-tailers. Every time you buy something, a percentage of the total ticket gets kicked into an account; when you've got enough for a savings bond (they start at $50), it's yours. Other brands on board--most offer between 2% and 10% back--include Mikasa, Orbitz and Toshiba...
...still buy tickets through Orbitz, Travelocity or any other site and get their fares and frequent-flyer miles. Mobissimo just does the research and lets you choose. Some flights shown are from overseas providers and may be listed in foreign languages, but Mobissimo converts everything to U.S. dollars...
...finds a flight with eight open seats and then gets everyone to pay me back for reservations made on my credit card. It's easier with the Internet, but it's still a pain." So many groups book their tickets online that travel websites have begun to catch on. Orbitz now allows groups to buy as many as nine tickets at a time, instead of the usual four...