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Expedia Group, Inc. is an American travel technology company that owns and operates travel fare aggregators and travel metasearch engines, including Expedia, ...
Expedia Inc. is an online travel agency owned by Expedia Group, based in Seattle. [1] The website and mobile app can be used to book airline tickets, hotel reservations, car rentals , cruise ships , and vacation packages.
In 2016, Gogobot, a travel booking and research company founded by entrepreneurs Travis Katz and Ori Zaltzman in 2010, acquired the Trip.com brand from Expedia and rebranded the service as Trip.com. [3] In November 2017, Ctrip acquired Trip.com. [4] At that time, Trip.com had more than 60 million users. [5] [6]
In September 2003, IAC/InterActiveCorp, which had acquired Expedia in 2001, announced its acquisition of Hotwire.com for $663 million. [7] In 2004, an internet research firm estimated that through cross-advertising between Hotwire and Expedia, IAC was able to reach a total of an additional 1.5 million unique visitors to both websites monthly. [8]
Old logo of Hotels.com used from 2002 to 2008 Hotels.com RusLine CRJ100 logojet at Pulkovo Airport (2017). Hotels.com was established in 1991 by David Litman and Robert Diener as the Hotel Reservations Network (HRN), providing hotel booking via a toll-free phone number in the United States. [2]
On November 4, 2015, Expedia Group announced it would acquire HomeAway, including VRBO, for $3.9 billion. The transaction closed in the first quarter of 2016. [7] [8] In March 2019, VRBO was re-branded Vrbo, including a new logo, capitalization, and pronunciation. [9] [1]
Hopper was founded in April 2007 by Frederic Lalonde and Joost Ouwerkerk, both of whom were executives at Expedia Group. [3] [4] It started as a travel planning tool with which a user could search for different places and activities. [4]
Travelocity.com is an online travel agency owned by the American Expedia Group.It has 12.4 million monthly unique visitors, making it the third most popular website owned by Expedia Group, after Expedia.com and Hotels.com.