Expedia, Inc., an online travel company, provides travel products and services to leisure and corporate travelers in the United States and internationally. The company’s products primarily consist of air, hotel, car rental, destination services and cruise.
Portfolio of Brands
Expedia: The company's Expedia-branded websites makes various travel products and services available directly to travelers through its U.S.-based website, www.expedia.com, as well as through localized versions of its website in Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom. Expedia-branded websites also serve as the travel channel on MSN.com, Microsoft Corporation’s (Microsoft) online services network in the United States, as well as certain international MSN sites. Expedia-branded websites target many different types of travelers, from families booking a summer vacation to individual travelers.
Hotels.com: The company's Hotels.com website makes available various lodging options to travelers, who can plan, shop for and book lodging accommodations, from traditional hotels to vacation rentals. Hotels.com seeks to provide travelers with premium content and service through the company's U.S.-based website, www.hotels.com, as well as through localized versions in the Americas, Europe, Asia Pacific and South Africa.
Hotwire.com: The company's discount travel website, Hotwire.com, makes available airline tickets, hotel rooms, rental cars, cruises and vacation packages. Hotwire.com works with many domestic and international airlines, including U.S. full-service major network airlines, top hotels in hundreds of cities and resort destinations in the United States, Europe, Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean and major car rental companies in the United States.
Worldwide Travel Exchange and Interactive Affiliate Network: The company's private label programs make travel products and services available to travelers through third-party company-branded websites. The products and services made available through its websites, www.wwte.com and www.ian.com, are substantially similar to those made available on Expedia-branded and Hotels.com-branded websites, respectively.
Classic Vacations: The company offers individually tailored vacations that it provides primarily through a national network of third-party retail travel agents. The company delivers a line of premium vacation packages air, hotels, car rentals, activities and private transportation — to create customized luxury vacations in Hawaii, the Caribbean, Mexico, Costa Rica, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Tahiti. Travel agents and travelers can preview the company's product offering through its websites, www.classicforagents.com and www.classicvacations.com.
Destination Services: The company's network of travel desks located at hotels and resorts in Florida, Hawaii, and Mexico makes available to travelers the opportunity to obtain tours, attractions, airport transfer services and other travel-related services.
Expedia Corporate Travel: The company's full-service travel management company makes travel products and services available to corporate travelers in the United States, Canada and Europe. ECT provides, among other things, centralized booking tools for employees of the company's corporate travelers, support of negotiated airfares and consolidated reporting aimed at small- and mid-sized businesses. ECT charges corporate client companies account management fees, as well as transactional fees for making or changing bookings.
eLong: The company's majority owned online travel service company, based in Beijing, the People’s Republic of China (China), engage in travel products and services in China. eLong uses web-based distribution technologies and a 24-hour nationwide call center to provide consumers with consolidated travel information and the ability to access hotel reservations at discounted rates at approximately 3,500 hotels in major cities across China. eLong also offers air ticketing and other travel related services, such as rental cars and vacation packages. Travelers can access travel products and services through the websites, www.elong.com and www.elong.net.
TripAdvisor: The company's online travel search engine and directory aggregates unbiased articles, guidebook reviews and user opinions on cities, hotels and activities in a variety of destinations from a number of online sources through its websites, www.tripadvisor.com and www.tripadvisor.co.uk. In addition to travel-related information, TripAdvisor’s destination-specific search results provide links to the websites of TripAdvisor’s travel partners (travel service providers and marketers) through which travelers can make related travel arrangements.
The company has an investment in and long-term strategic partnership with CruiseShipCenters International, Inc. Through this partnership, Expedia would broaden its exposure to offline distribution channels, and CruiseShipCenters' 100 retail franchise locations.
The company’s Spain Web site Expedia.es is a full-service travel booking site designed for Spanish travelers. The site offers Spanish travelers a selection of approximately 70,000 hotels; flights all around the world; approximately 3,000 leisure activities in innumerable destinations; and major rental car companies in approximately 5,000 locations.
