Darren Huston Talks About Direct Booking

CEO Darren Huston maintains the company had no interest in acquiring HomeAway because of its business model and the high cost. He attempt to build an effective home rental product.

At the ITB Berlin Convention 2016 , Priceline Group CEO Darren Huston said he’s annoyed by the efforts of hotel brands to push back against online booking sites.

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Darren Huston

Title: Darren Huston, President and CEO
Born: January 3, 1966, Hope, British Columbia
Education: BS in economics, Trent University; MA in economics, University of British Columbia; MBA, Harvard Business School
Early Marker: Vice president at Starbucks responsible for acquisitions and new product development.
Big Idea: The former Microsoft exec stepped up
Wave of the Future: M-commerce, App-economy, experiential economy
to the top job at Priceline in January 2014 after running the group's main revenue generator, Amsterdam-based Booking.com. Since 2011 he has been tackling the challenges of its main advertising outlet, Google, increasingly competing with it for travel-related bookings, of expanding its hospitality-related services, such as with its acquisition of OpenTable, and of retaining its customers as they migrate from desktop to mobile devices.