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Orbitz Worldwide, the parent company of Orbitz.com, was formed in 2000 and is currently based in Chicago, Illinois. Orbitz promotes itself as a "leading global online travel company that uses innovative technology to enable leisure and business travelers to research, plan, and book a broad range of travel products."

Orbitz was the airline industry's first attempt at getting back direct sales of tickets through their own conglomerated site. By doing this instead of having users use sites such as Travelocity to book their flights, the airlines are able to keep all of the money to themselves rather than share some of the profits with these online travel agencies.

Orbitz is well known for using former game show host Wink Martindale in commercials touting its services. Orbitz also hosts sites for accessing their services by mobile phone and for playing games.

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• They Sold You Out: Screw You Orbitz, Shutterfly, Fandango, and more…

  
  bengarvey.com — Authority: 104
  I only called out Orbitz, Shutterlfy, and Fandango because I’m a big customer of theirs. Fandango not so much since I hardly ever go to the movies anymore, but I use it almost every time I go. Each company built great technology and delivered a great product until they got greedy and decided to break an ethical ...
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• Orbitz reveals which airports to avoid this Thanksgiving

  
  Gadling — Authority: 703
  Filed under: Airlines , Airports As we slowly head into the worst time of year to be traveling, Orbitz has revealed which airports to avoid this Thanksgiving. The list is not really filled with any surprises, but it is always nice to see some solid research done by those that actually have the data needed to ...
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• Newly Enhanced Orbitz Lowest Price $50 Guarantee

  
  Loyalty Traveler — Authority: 427
  “Under the new program, customers who find their prepaid hotel room available for a lower price on any site, including Orbitz, can receive a refund for the difference and a $50 discount on a future hotel or vacation package booking. Plus, Orbitz now allows customers to submit a claim right up to the time of the ...
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• Orbitz Enhances Program With Low Price Guarantee

  
  TravelBrook — Authority: 122
  Earlier this year travel-booking site Orbitz extended their Price Assurance program to not only airfare but also hotels, offering users automatic reimbursements. Now the website is offering up a low price guarantee that will ensure that you not only receive an automatic rebate but also a promo code  for $50 off ...
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• Orbitz enhances its low price guarantee

  
  HOTELMARKETING.COM — Authority: 440
  Under the new program, customers who find their prepaid hotel room available for a lower price on any site, including Orbitz, can receive a refund for the difference and a $50 discount on a future hotel or vacation package booking.
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• The Sordid World of Post-Purchase Marketing

  
  Technologizer — Authority: 657
  Earlier today I was squawking about the sales tactics of PeopleFinder’s Stud or Dud? iPhone app : Once it has your credit-card info, it attempts to use a discount to convince you to sign up for various services that cost $24.95 a month, a price that’s mentioned only in fine print. As I did my grumbling, I ...
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• Travel Smarts - 10% off Los Angeles Hotels near Cruise Port - Smooth Sailing for Your Budget

  
  Fabu Daily Coupon Blog — Authority: 127
  Whether you’re taking a weeklong cruise along the gorgeous Mexican coast or a sport fishing daytrip not far from the harbor, it pays to book a couple of nights close to the LA Cruise Port. You’re just a hop, skip and a jump from your boat, so missing your departure time is never a worry.Save [...]
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• Priceline, Expedia Making Me Dizzy

  
  Sramana Mitra on Strategy — Authority: 564
  The Travel Industry Association estimates that total travel spending in the United States has fallen to $712 billion in 2009 from $772 billion a year ago. Recovery is expected in 2010, with travel spending expected to grow 5% to $745.2 billion driven by improvement in leisure travel sales. By 2012,... ..
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• Florida sues Expedia & Orbitz over hotel taxes: This may change the way agencies quote prices

  
  Upgrade: Travel Better — Authority: 464
  Municipalities across the country have been suing the online travel agencies, charging them with cheating the local governments out of lodging taxes. Agencies responded by keeping hotels in those cities out of searches. Until now, it’s been primarily smaller cities like Columbus, Georgia. But last week, the state ...
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• How to avoid crowded airports this holiday season

  
  TerraCurve.com: Go beyond green. | Responsible travel news, places, people and events. — Authority: 126
  We have all seen the lines – wrapping around the dividers at the check-in counters, jam-packing the security queues. And the worst part? That is just on a regular day. So what happens on, say, Thanksgiving – the busiest travel day of the year? A new post by the Orbitz Insider Index has just announced the busiest ...
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• Priceline.com earnings preview: A sweet deal in Q3?

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 670
  Filed under: Earnings reports , Forecasts Priceline.com Inc. ( PCLN ), which was recently added to the S&P 500, is scheduled to discuss its third-quarter 2009 financial results in a conference call Monday, November 9, at 4:30 PM ET. You can catch the live webcast of the call on the companys website . During ...
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• HR Jobs Mumbai Orbitz Corporate & Leisure Travels requires Recruitment Executive in Mumbai

  
  Bandra Blogs, About Bandra Mumbai, Jobs in Mumbai — Authority: 449
  About Orbitz Corporate & Leisure Travels Pvt. Ltd. :We introduce a new era to the Indian business & leisure travellers by bringing world class services. Our sincere efforts and the niche concept of business tours helped to open avenues to technological progress in India. Indian businesses grew globally ...
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• The New Orbitz

  
  Two JetSet Divas...and a Map — Authority: 115
  Orbitz has a brand new look! Sometime in August Chrissy and I received an invitation from Orbitz to be apart of their ‘Blogger Day’ I may have the wrong name) at the headquarters in Chicago to talk about new, great and exciting changes they would be rolling out in the near future, dynamics of the company, and ...
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• Money Saving Travel Tips For Booking Flights Online

  
  3stepADS - Free Advertising Blog — Authority: 587
  Individual travelers cant expect to get impartial advice when they call a particular airline. An airlinereservation agent is not going to tell you that another airline has a better schedule or a better fare for your particular itinerary...What IS a weary traveler to do?
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• Orbitz Q3 revenue fell 22%, blames removal of booking fees

  
  HOTELMARKETING.COM — Authority: 440
  Orbitz posted a quarterly profit on Thursday, helped by lower expenses and more bookings, and said it had received equity investments amounting to $100 million. The company said fee cuts and promotions offset weak demand during the economic recession but that travel demand is starting to recover on its own.
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• Expedia Drops Phone Booking Fees

  
  TheBeat.travel - a travel business community — Authority: 126
  Expedia announced today that they are removing booking/service fees on all travel products sold through Expedias call centers. read more
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• Expedia Drops Fee For Booking By Phone [Online Booking]

  
  Consumerist — Authority: 795
  This morning, travel service Expedia announced it will abandon its book by phone fee , which it first implemented last May. This makes it the only major online travel agency to not ding customers with a fee for booking flights over the phone, notes consumer travel advocate Christopher Elliott. Elliott spoke with an ...
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• Travel Smarts - 10% off Chicago Hotels near Museum of Science and Industry - Engineer a Better Deal Every Time You Travel

  
  Fabu Daily Coupon Blog — Authority: 127
  Check out a working coal mine. Explore a captured German U-boat from World War II. And get up close and personal with a NASA spacecraft. Your family vacation to Chicago gets a whole lot more exciting when you visit the Museum of Science and Industry.Make getting to and from the museum a snap when you [...]
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• Online Travel Companies Dragged To Court By The State of Florida

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 599
  The state of Florida has begun legal proceedings against the online travel companies operating in the region charging these companies with tax evasion. This latest string of lawsuits from Florida is yet another addition to the long chain of nationwide lawsuits against such travel related firms. Expedia and Orbitz, two ...
  3 weeks ago

• Florida Sues Expedia And Orbitz Over Taxes

  
  WebProNews Feed — Authority: 698
  Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum said today his office has sued online travel companies Expedia and Orbitz for failing to pay the right amount of taxes on hotel room rentals. The lawsuit states that while the companies have been collecting these taxes from consumers all along, they have only been paying a ...
  3 weeks ago

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