{"id":20077,"date":"2011-06-01T16:12:20","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T00:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/?p=20077"},"modified":"2011-06-01T16:28:33","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T00:28:33","slug":"groupon-and-expedia-team-up-for-groupon-getaways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/living\/travel\/groupon-and-expedia-team-up-for-groupon-getaways","title":{"rendered":"Groupon and Expedia Team Up For Groupon Getaways"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Travel is the new fashion, it seems, judging by the number of websites jumping into the space lately. Today Groupon<\/strong> became the latest site to strike out into the discounted travel space with Groupon Getaways<\/a> (a partnership with Expedia<\/strong>).<\/p>\n After Gilt and Hautelook demonstrated near immediate success with the daily fashion sale model, it seemed a new company following the exact same model appeared every week faster than you could say 70% off. Gilt was the first of those sites to bring travel deals into the mix with their Jetsetter website; but today there’s the American Express backed Vacationist<\/a> and Exclusively.in (a Gilt style site targeted towards Indian fashion and design), who recently expanded to include Asian focused travel deals<\/a>.<\/p>\n Unlike fashion, there’s no Vente Privee (who American Express also recently partnered with)<\/a> – that is an established behemoth who’s been making money off the model for a while. That’s the good news, now the critical look.<\/p>\n