CEO Journals

Darren Huston : China travels next big market from CNBC . Darren Huston , Priceline Group president & CEO, discusses the company's quarterly earnings and partnership with Ctrip. Darren Huston says Ctrip will help them bring Chinese customers to their business around the world.

Darren Huston says that customers want non-hotel accommodation.   Darren Huston company has the largest inventory on the planet and what customers really want out of hotel services.   Darren Huston : Customers want non-hotel accommodation from CNBC .

Rich people are hiring bodyguards to go to Disney World. “Our summer was huge . . . on the heels of what happened in Paris and London,” said Paul Viollis , CEO of Viollis Group International, a global security firm. “We’ve gotten maybe 20 new clients.” Paul Viollis firm offers multiple layers of protection — from security drivers and armored vehicles with bulletproof glass to vacation bodyguards. But in the case of a suicide bomber or a truck plowing into a crowd, what can a bodyguard even do? Personal-security requests aren’t just limited to major European cities. Experts say they’ve seen an uptick in Europeans and Asians hiring guards for Disney World in Orlando, Fla. The visitors are asking for “armed escorts,” said Paul Viollis . “They’re afraid of terrorist attacks in Disney. We never saw that until about a year ago.”   Engbrecht says it’s all about intel and prevention. “The venues [where terrorists have struck in these cities] are absolutely predictable...

Darren Huston Darren Huston was trying to watch a hockey game; half-listening to a headhunter talk about a company he had never heard of before. But as the headhunter went on, the then 45years old executive in charge of Microsoft’s global consumer and online businesses tuned out the arena noise and began listening to what he thought was an impossible story. “I said, ‘There’s nothing that big in Europe on the Internet,”’ Darren Huston recalled, laughing. The 2011 call was from Booking.com, the Amsterdam-based unit of Priceline Group that dominates the European online travel market. By last year, Darren Huston became President and CEO of Priceline Group itself, which has come from dot-com laughingstock to the fifth most-valuable U.S. Internet company—if one still really considers it a U.S. company, because 90 percent of its profits come from overseas, most of them from Booking.com. A year after taking over from now chairman Jeffery Boyd, Darren Huston is building a Price...

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