The world's largest online travel agency by traffic and bookings. Part of Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG).
Google's I/O 2026 announcements confirm the company's move from search intermediary to active travel booking platform — with Booking.com and Expedia among the first named OTA partners for direct hotel and flight booking in AI Mode.
BC Premier David Eby publicly rejected Airbnb's FIFA World Cup exemption request, while Mexico City reviews its STR law and a Valencia court voided the city's tourist housing moratorium. What each means for operators.
Authorities seized Booking.com's records after 15,000 hotels claimed inflated commission payments due to restrictive pricing rules.
Booking Holdings grew room nights 6% and revenue 16% in Q1 2026, though the Middle East conflict clipped an estimated two percentage points off growth. Adjusted EBITDA rose 19% to $1.3 billion.
Booking.com is now searchable and bookable through Claude, Anthropic's AI assistant, creating a new discovery channel for the platform's 28-million-property inventory.
Booking.com's 2026 Travel & Sustainability Report finds that 74% of travelers factor extreme weather risk into destination and timing choices, with one in three having canceled a trip in the past year due to climate disruption.
Booking.com's 11th annual Travel & Sustainability Report finds that Gen Z leads on stated intentions but Boomers consistently outperform younger travelers on concrete sustainable behaviors — from reducing waste to travelling off-peak.
Booking.com's 2026 Travel and Sustainability Report finds that Boomers and Gen X outperform younger generations on actual sustainable travel behavior, while 100 million room nights were booked at certified sustainable properties in 2025 — a demand signal properties can no longer ignore.
Booking.com confirms a data breach where hackers accessed customer data, including booking details, though financial info was not compromised.
A Dutch consumer group has initiated legal proceedings against Booking.com, challenging its practices under competition laws.
A 2025 traffic-based ranking of the world's 20 largest online travel agencies shows Booking.com in a league of its own — pulling 3 to 4 times the monthly visits of any competitor. We break down the rankings, the holding-group consolidation, and the regional champions still holding their own.
An Amsterdam court has ruled that German hotels have not yet proven Booking.com's pre-2016 price parity clauses restricted competition, handing the OTA a meaningful interim win and potentially undermining the damages case against it.