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Darren Huston Got 6 Amazing Brands Said On CNBC

After beating earnings expectations, Darren Huston discusses on CNBC how macro factors like oil and terrorism impact the travel environment.<br>

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Darren Huston Got 6 Amazing Brands Said On CNBC

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  1. Darren Huston Got 6 Amazing Brands Said On CNBC Darren Huston – Well, I think, Simon, one of the things people underestimated was travel specifically really benefits from loyal lower oil prices. And we're seeing in particular that macro effect having a positive impact on our business. It doesn't explain everything because I also think we're executing really well as a team. But generally it's a pretty healthy travel environment. Certainly the terror in Paris and issues you know, people see in Syria and Turkey. There’s a pocket of issues around the industry. But generally it's very positive.

  2. Simon – You know, just on the subject of you executing, you seemed on the conference call this morning at 7:30 to be more strident than I remember you. I mean, you even took a swipe at Expedia, effectively saying you're booking twice as many nights’ accommodation as your nearest rival. I wonder if it's also reading between the lines of frustration on your part that people may not understand, actually what you're doing with the business. I mean, you're now three years into this job when you took over. I think there were four thousand employees. How many do you have now?

  3. Darren Huston – We've actually closing in 16000 now, Simon, so I've been in the Priceline Group CEO Job for two years. I've been running booking dot com for four and a half years. And yeah, it's nice to get a little bit of recognition. We're a pretty quiet company. We focus, we do our jobs. Booking dot com is still not a household name in America. So people always bring in the household names of America. We're an American traded stock, of course. And it's nice to get a little bit of recognition. We are the world's third largest publicly traded e-commerce company. But I think there's a lot of surprise to people. They think of Priceline maybe as Priceline dot com, when in fact, we've got 6 amazing brands and that the key brand, of course, is booking dot com, but also Opentable, kayak. There's just a lot more to our company than I think we maybe get credit for.

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