Parent holding company of Expedia, Hotels.com, Vrbo, Trivago, Orbitz, Travelocity, and Hotwire. One of the world's largest travel platforms.
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A WARN notice filed in Washington state shows 58 corporate roles will go in late November and early December.
Vrbo will charge all hosts and property managers a flat 12% commission from October 29, 2026, while sharply cutting guest fees.
Expedia is now available inside Meta's Muse agent, yet CEO Ariane Gorin told Skift Global Forum she doesn't expect most bookings to become end-to-end conversations.
Dara Khosrowshahi told Skift Global Forum that Uber's hotel bookings run at break-even by design, funding 10-20% Uber One discounts, with Vrbo rentals arriving later this year and flights on hold.
Vrbo and Airbnb are leaning into paid placement just as personal AI booking agents arrive. One of them, Instinct, told Skift that paid placement carries no weight in its choices and that it defaults to booking direct.
Expedia Group's head of organic and agentic search says the company has a dedicated business-to-agent (B2A) team and plans for a range of agentic futures rather than a single outcome.
Expedia Group is betting on many specialised agents orchestrated into a whole-trip experience, not one monolithic assistant, with travelers keeping the final click on bookings and every live AI initiative registered and risk-rated.
Uber and Airbnb are both selling hotel rooms now, from opposite starting points. Skift argues neither has yet shown the hotel bet is incremental rather than cannibalized.
New Expedia Group and PredictHQ research says 18 US summer sporting events drew 4 million-plus attendees and $537 million in visitor spending, with demand spilling into neighbouring counties and bookings landing 62 days out.
Booking Holdings is running five consumer AI projects, including two stealth internal startups and a soon-to-launch Agoda planner, while Expedia scrapped its single chatbot for a multi-agent architecture.
Europe's General Court dismissed Booking Holdings' appeal against the 2023 prohibition of its €1.63bn Etraveli acquisition, endorsing a "reverse leveraging" theory of harm that applies to dominant firms only — leaving Expedia free to keep buying in adjacent categories.
Vrbo has made paid search placement available to all partners globally on a pay-per-booked-night model, six months after a nine-manager pilot. Visibility on the platform now has a price.