eDreams advantages

eDreams is an online travel agency founded in March 1999 that offers in their page different tourism services as flights, hotels, vacation packages, train tickets, car rentals... around the world. The website can be visited in 5 languages.

The company’s headquarters is in Barcelona, Spain with branch in Milan, Italy.

Despite the crisis, eDreams has grown considerably in the last years and has increased its profit.

The fact of not having physical offices allows offer really competitive prices, to be less cost structure without reducing the quality of service.

In addition, thanks to the huge investment that eDreams held annually in the latest technology, the company can offer prices up to 70% cheaper than traditional agencies or other airlines.

Its technological development allows them to send almost 400 request for information per second to its suppliers, and analyze over 160.000 combinations of routes and prices. This way they can present us the information completely optimized.

eDreams also has a second field of activity: Marketing and Advertising services, where more than 500 companies are already customers, doing their advertising campaigns through this portal. 

Booking Vs. Expedia

News which said: "Hoteliers prefer price and profitability Booking.com" To us it has attracted attention.

We want to know if we also get more profitable for one night in a hotel in booking  or in Expedia, and we've found!

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In Subur Sitges hotel we found a double room for Valentine dates.

On booking we get the room for 129 € and expedia we get for 54 €. This means that we would have more profitably by expedia. But thanks to the offers that they would offer us the room at one of these two pages costs 44.26€.

Booking has a condition that says: "How? 'Another website offers a lower price? Match it ". This is granted if the reservation is the same with the same conditions. We believe that booking has reduced the price by this condition.

                      

The negotiations with hoteliers

Hoteliers complain that the fee charged by Expedia (25%) is "very high" and notes that this is the factor leading hoteliers to opt for other agencies as Booking online, which charges between 15% and 17%, which means more profit for the business.

 

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 Moreover, they prefer the method of payment of Booking because the customer pays directly at the hotel and should not wait 60 days to receive the money. "At Expedia are good payers, but not without money themselves rather than the hotel"

Another factor is that Booking is well positioned in the European market and especially in the very short term sales while Expedia works great in selling to within 40-45 days in advance but at the last minute lost force.