Corporate News and Innovation

Air New Zealand is expanding its digital travel retail experience with a new Expedia partnership, giving customers streamlined access to Expedia’s unrivalled selection of hotels at discounted rates when they book their flight and room together on the airline’s website.

From today, customers booking a flight on the airline’s website can access additional hotel discounts, with all properties backed by Expedia’s Price Match. Airpoints™ members will also earn Airpoints Dollars™ on their stay, with a launch offer of triple Airpoints Dollars until 21 April 2017. Read more

The World’s Best-Reviewed Hotels:

Expedia.com Releases 2015 Insiders’ Select List

Four New Zealand properties featured among 650 global properties named to the annual elite list, resulting from two million+ guest review

AUCKLAND, New Zealand, September 2, 2015 – Expedia.com®, one of the world’s largest full-service online travel sites*, has released the New Zealand results of the Expedia® 2015 Insiders’ Select® rankings, an annual crowd-sourced list of the world’s best-reviewed hotels. Read more

        11 August 2015

        Media Release

The Expedia® Value Tracker reveals top international destinations

for New Zealand travellers

·         Of Kiwi favourites, Australia offers best value for money

·         South America and Russia lead the way in affordability

As the Kiwi dollar struggles against some of the world’s major currencies, and holidays on home-soil grow in appeal for many, the Expedia Value Tracker, out today, reveals the overseas destinations offering the best value for money for travellers. Read more

Savvy Kiwis love loyalty programs

• New research reveals 82 per cent of New Zealanders are fans of rewards programs
• 53 per cent of New Zealanders belong to at least one travel loyalty program

New Zealanders are passionate about making their hard-earned dollars go further, with new research out today revealing 82 per cent are fans of reward programs and 44 per cent of respondents highlighting travel rewards as most valuable.

Half the population (53%) says they are currently using travel loyalty programs in a bid to make their travel dreams a reality, with an estimated 8.2 million travel loyalty memberships registered across the country[1]. Read more

Expedia Launches New Tablet App that Reimagines Search

New Expedia Tablet App Introduces Industry-First Combined Hotel and Flight Search,

Integrates Personalised Travel Data Across Multiple Devices

AUCKLAND, New Zealand, September 4, 2014– Expedia.com, one of the world's largest full service online travel sites*, today released the all-new Expedia app for tablets. It is available for free download from the App Store and Google Play.

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