Vacation rental marketplace owned by Expedia Group. Whole-home focused, primarily competing with Airbnb in the US and Europe.
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.
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.
Expedia Group announced 12 partner-facing products across Vrbo and its Escapia property management software, including a global rollout of pay-per-booked-night Sponsored Listings and a rebuilt Escapia reservation grid.
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.
A Harris Poll study of 1,758 travelers for Vrbo finds 86% would pay more for a higher-quality listing, with cleanliness, fast host responses and verified recent reviews driving the premium.
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.
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.
Uber has added hotel bookings to its app using Expedia Group's Rapid API, putting 700,000+ properties in front of Uber's user base. For listed operators, it's a new distribution channel — but Uber One discounts apply.
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.