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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Expedia Group beat the top end of its Q2 guidance and lifted full-year gross bookings and revenue targets. Underneath the beat, B2B gross bookings grew 21% against 8% for the consumer brands — while B2B's margin went the other way.
Expedia's restructured One Key program goes live today: earning rates now depend on status tier, flight bookings earn nothing, and the Hotel Price Guarantee disappears from Expedia and Hotels.com.
Expedia Group is the first OTA ever authorized to sell Allegiant flights, under a 12-month exclusive covering 566 routes across 124 US cities.
Expedia's travel-agent affiliate program is positioning itself as more than a booking tool, adding a push-based data API and custom booking identifiers aimed at agency back offices.
Expedia Group research shows 77% of travelers want to book multiple trip elements on a single platform, prompting an expansion of its Rapid API ecosystem for B2B partners.
Expedia Group has hired Bill Watkins, Pinterest's former Chief Revenue Officer, as SVP of Global Advertising to scale its travel media network.
Expedia Group executives outlined their strategy for "business-to-agent" (B2A) marketing at the Explore partner conference, as AI agents emerge as a new layer between brands and travelers.
At Explore 26, Expedia Group B2B unveiled its Intelligent Experience Platform — a composable AI toolkit letting partners build branded travel experiences on Expedia's supply infrastructure, signaling a major bet on agentic travel distribution.
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.
Expedia Group has agreed to acquire CarTrawler, the Dublin B2B platform connecting 550+ car rental suppliers with 300+ travel brands, for approximately $350 million — its second B2B acquisition of 2026.
Expedia Group will webcast the opening session of its annual Explore 26 partner conference on May 19, featuring CEO Ariane Gorin and newly promoted B2B President Alfonso Paredes.
Expedia spent $279 million acquiring Tiqets to strengthen its experiences market position, while Airbnb gained $70 million from the deal.