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Priceline, Orbitz Slammed on Expedia Hotel, Fare Promotion

in News on March 11, 2009 at 11:32 am PT

As the recession-pressured market for leisure travel shrinks, the competition for online travel customers is heating up. Expedia today unveiled an aggressive new promotion, which it calls “Free Nights and No Fee Flights,” offering to pick up the tab for one night in a hotel for stays of three, four or five days at a group of more than 700 participating hotels, and also waiving booking fees for flights booked before the end of May.