Informational Diary: Booking.com Made Brand Push in Canada : Darren Hus...

Informational Diary: Booking.com Made Brand Push in Canada : Darren Hus...: Darren Huston knows all about hotel rooms — staying in one at least 80 days a year for his job. As chief executive officer of Bookin...

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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.

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.

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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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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.

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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.”

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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.”

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