After beating earnings expectations, Darren Huston discusses how macro factors like oil and terrorism impact the travel environment.
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Wednesday, September 25, 2019
Monday, September 23, 2019
Darren Huston : Hope to show America our fantastic product
Priceline stock is lower on downbeat guidance for the current quarter. CEO Darren Huston discusses his differentiated product to Airbnb.
CEO Darren Huston Says Health of the business is strong
Darren Huston, Priceline Group Pres. & CEO discusses business and investment strategies and Priceline for the Apple Watch.
Saturday, September 21, 2019
Darren Huston : Company Has The Largest Inventory on the Planet
Priceline President & CEO Darren Huston,
says the company has the largest inventory on the planet, and discusses
what customers really want out of hotel and restaurant services.
Friday, September 20, 2019
Darren Huston Holds Masters in Economics from University of British Columbia
Darren
Huston, President & CEO of The Priceline Group since 1 January
2014, and also Chief Executive Officer of Booking.com B.V.
(Netherlands), a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Priceline Group and the
number one online hotel reservation service in the world, a position he
has held since September 2011.
Darren Huston came
to the Group from Microsoft Corporation, where he served as Corporate
Vice President, Consumer & Online from 2008 and President & CEO
of Microsoft Japan from 2005.
Prior
to joining Microsoft in 2003, Mr Huston was also Senior Vice President
at Starbucks Corporation, responsible for acquisitions and new product
development. He holds a Masters in Economics from the University of
British Columbia and a Masters in Business Administration from Harvard
University.
Thursday, September 19, 2019
Darren Huston : The CEO at Booking.com in Amsterdam, Netherlands
Darren Huston
were named Chief Executive Officer of Booking.com. Booking.com was a
part of The Priceline Group and is the number-one online hotel
reservation service in the world, offerred over 165,000 hotels in 43
languages.
Darren Huston,
who is a Canadian native, brings a deep portfolio of related experience
to Booking.com. Since 2008, he served as Microsoft Corporation’s
Corporate Vice President, Consumer & Online, responsible for the
company’s consumer and advertising businesses in over 40 countries.
From
2005–2008, he served as President and Chief Executive Officer,
Microsoft Japan, which is the company’s largest subsidiary outside the
United States.
Before
joining Microsoft in 2003, Mr. Huston was a Senior Vice President at
Starbucks Corporation, responsible for acquisitions and new product
development. He has also served as an executive with McKinsey &
Company, and as an economic advisor to the Government of Canada.
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Monday, September 16, 2019
Darren Huston climbed the corporate ladder at Starbucks & Microsoft as a senior VP
Darren Huston,
the family farmhand turned CEO of $60-billion Priceline Group Inc., is
arguably one of the most successful C-suite exports to come out of this
province that you’ve never heard of.
Born
in Hope, B.C., and equipped with a Master of Economics from UBC and an
MBA from Harvard, Huston quickly climbed the corporate ladder at
Starbucks and Microsoft as a senior VP, including a three-year run as
president and CEO of Microsoft Japan.
In
2011, he landed at Amsterdam-based travel website Booking.com as CEO;
in less than three years’ time, he tripled the size of that operation,
and in January of this year Huston was named CEO of the parent company,
Priceline.
In addition to Booking.com and its eponymous website,
Priceline’s other online properties include Kayak, Rentalcars, Agoda and
Villas.
This
June, Priceline expanded into a new digital realm, purchasing
table-booking app OpenTable, the preeminent restaurant reservation site,
for $2.6 billion.
Thursday, September 12, 2019
Travel Insider: Darren Huston
Ten years from now, travel won’t involve any paper, says Darren Huston,
president and CEO of the Priceline Group and booking.com. “You’ll have
no passport, no credit cards, no confirmation,” predicts the
Amsterdam-based Canadian. “You’ll just have your phone in your pocket,
and if you lose it, everything will be in the cloud.”
Until
someone invents teleportation, though, we’ll still have to fly —
something Huston doesn’t actually like to do. (He makes the most of his
air time by sleeping and working.) But for now, it’s the only way he can
access all the local experiences he craves. “I like bizarre flavours
and tastes. I’ve eaten ants in Nairobi, frogs in Vietnam and lots of
strange things in China — I really enjoy that about travel.”
Black book: Europe
Comfort
food: “In Amsterdam, if I feel homesick, I go to Restaurant Red. They
only serve three things: steak, Canadian lobster and wine.”
Local
fave: “Outside of Amsterdam is a little city called Delft, which is
where Vermeer did his paintings. Everything still looks like it did in
the 1600s.”
Greek
treat: “One place I just discovered and should have already known about
is the Greek islands. Mario Restaurant in Naousa is super authentic and
has a wonderful evening vibe. It’s Greek food and the Greek islands at
their best.”
Weekend
getaway: “I like spontaneous travel. I used to be a very ‘Let’s plan
two months ahead’ kind of person, but now I like making plans the week
before. There are so many choices within two hours of Amsterdam. One
weekend, I said to my family: ‘Why don’t we just go to Milan? I think
the Expo’s on.’ We booked on a Thursday and ended up in Milan for two
days. You have to be careful with flights, but in the world of hotels,
prices sometimes go down at the last minute and you can get great deals
if you’re not in high season.”
Read Full Article @ https://www.ellecanada.com/culture/travel/travel-insider-darren-huston/
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
Darren Huston Interview on Acquiring Homeaway with Skift
Priceline
Group CEO says his company didn’t get involved when HomeAway put itself
up for sale because “we’re quite picky” and HomeAway’s model of
allowing vacation rental owners to wait 24 hours before confirming a
booking and charging travelers a booking fee “just didn’t fit us.”
Expedia
Inc. announced that it would acquire HomeAway for $3.9 billion in cash
and stock. Asked whether the Priceline Group got involved in that sales
process, Darren Huston said:
“No. Although we’ve talked to them for years. We were very much aware
of it. We knew kind of how it was going. We did a little bit of thinking
and said this isn’t the right thing for us. We’re quite picky.”
Sunday, September 27, 2015
Priceline buying OpenTable | Darren Huston on Business Financial Post
The OpenTable deal is the first big move for Priceline Chief Executive Officer Darren Huston,
who took over in January with a challenging task: continue to fuel
growth after his predecessor Jeffery Boyd, who stayed as chairman,
generated a 100-fold stock surge in 11 years.
Priceline
Group Inc. stepped up its acquisition spree by buying OpenTable Inc. in
a deal valued at $2.6 billion, adding restaurant bookings to an online
travel business already spanning flights, hotels and cars.
The
all-cash offer of $103 per share for the popular Internet restaurant
reservation company is 46 percent higher than OpenTable’s closing price
yesterday. The deal is expected to be completed in the third quarter,
the companies said in a statement today.
Also Read : Darren Huston : Priceline is in Competition
Priceline
is buying a company that seats over 15 million diners per month across
more than 31,000 restaurants via online bookings. As consumers
increasingly use services like OpenTable on mobile devices, the deal
boosts Priceline’s presence on smartphones and further connects the
company to local businesses.
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