Accommodation-focused OTA owned by Expedia Group. Best known for the Hotels.com Rewards loyalty program ("Stay 10 Nights, Get 1 Free").
Hotels.com has launched a global business travel experience with saved work-trip preferences, quick rebooking and rewards on eligible business stays — a move at the unmanaged corporate segment that hotels have largely sold to directly.
A Hotels.com survey found 37% of American workers travel more for business than before the pandemic, with an average reported hotel budget of $236 per night and free breakfast the most valued benefit.
Travelers in the US can now complete a hotel reservation without leaving Google Search. Booking.com, Expedia, Hotels.com, Priceline and Trip.com are among the launch partners, alongside five hotel chains.
US travellers can now complete a hotel reservation inside Google's AI Mode using Google Pay, with inventory from Booking.com, Expedia, Priceline, Hotels.com, Trip.com and five hotel groups. Ranking is organic for now.
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 posted its best-ever Q1 profit margin, with 13% gross bookings growth and an 83% jump in adjusted EBITDA, as the B2B segment outpaced consumer brands by a wide margin.
Expedia Group has appointed Derek Andersen, formerly CFO of Snap, as its new Chief Financial Officer. He takes over May 11, succeeding Scott Schenkel who joined in early 2025.
Expedia Group Advertising is teaming up with Magnite to let advertisers reach high-intent travelers across streaming, display, and audio — using Expedia's first-party data outside its own platforms for the first time at scale.