Demand for hotel rooms boosts Expedia's second quarter earnings


Skift Take

Ever since its split with TripAdvisor, Expedia's moved quickly ahead, both to reinvent itself as the most social of the OTAs to one that's likely the only challenger to Priceline's suite of sites.
Expedia, based in Bellevue, Washington, advanced 20 percent to $54.92 at 2:31 p.m. in New York, after earlier climbing as much as 28 percent for the biggest percentage jump since April 27. They had ga