A travel agency is a private retailer or public service that provides travel and tourism-related services to the general public on behalf of accommodation or travel suppliers to offer different kinds of travelling packages for each destination. Travel agencies can provide outdoor recreation,arranging logistics for luggage and medical items delivery for travellers upon request,public transport timetables,car rentals,and bureau de change services. Travel agencies can also serve as general sales agents for airlines that do not have offices in a specific region. A travel agency's main function is to act as an agent,selling travel products and services on behalf of a supplier. They are also called Travel Advisors. They do not keep inventory in-hand unless they have pre-booked hotel rooms or cabins on a cruise ship for a group travel event such as a wedding,honeymoon,or other group event.
Orbitz.com is a travel fare aggregator website and travel metasearch engine. The website is owned by Orbitz Worldwide,Inc.,a subsidiary of Expedia Group. It is headquartered in the Citigroup Center,Chicago,Illinois.
Priceline.com is an online travel agency for finding discount rates for travel-related purchases such as airline tickets and hotel stays. The company facilitates the provision of travel services from its suppliers to its clients. Priceline.com is headquartered in Norwalk,Connecticut,United States and is wholly owned by Booking Holdings,which also owns Kayak.com,Booking.com and other sites. The company was founded in 1997. It operates in more than 200 countries and territories around the world and has partnerships with over 400 airlines and 300,000 hotels. Users can search for travel deals and discounts on the website,and in the past also offered the "Name Your Own Price" feature to bid on hotel rooms and flights.
Expedia Group,Inc. is an American travel technology company that owns and operates travel fare aggregators and travel metasearch engines,including Expedia,Hotels.com,Vrbo,Travelocity,Hotwire.com,Orbitz,Ebookers,CheapTickets,CarRentals.com,Expedia Cruises,Wotif,and Trivago. Over 3 million lodging facilities and flights on over 500 airlines are bookable on the company's websites. It has 16,500 employees,and its headquarters are located in Seattle,Washington.
Cheapflights is a travel fare metasearch engine. The website is part of the Kayak.com subsidiary of Booking Holdings.
Kayak is a metasearch engine for travel services,including airline flights,hotels,rental cars,and vacation packages. It is owned and operated by Booking Holdings.
Skyscanner Ltd. is a search aggregator and travel agency based in Edinburgh,Scotland and operating since 2003.
Agoda.com is an online travel agency catering to customers around the world,registered and headquartered in Singapore with operations in Bangkok,Thailand. Agoda facilitates reservations for accommodation,flights,ground transportation,and activities. It is a subsidiary of Booking Holdings.
Booking.com is one of the largest online travel agencies. It is headquartered in Amsterdam,and is a subsidiary of Booking Holdings. Booking.com provides lodging reservation services for approximately 3.4 million properties,including 475,000 hotels,motels,and resorts and 2.9 million homes,apartments in over 220 countries and territories and in over 40 languages. It also sells flights in 55 markets and tours and activities in more than 1,300 cities.
MakeMyTrip Limited is an Indian online travel company,headquartered in Gurgaon. Founded in 2000,the company provides online travel services including airline tickets,domestic and international holiday packages,hotel reservations,rail and bus tickets. MakeMyTrip also has international offices located in New York,Singapore,Kuala Lumpur,Phuket,Bangkok,Dubai,and Istanbul.
eDreams ODIGEO is a Spanish online travel company that was formed in 2011 as the successor of eDreams with the merger of online travel agencies eDreams and GO Voyages,and the acquisition of Opodo.
Qunar.com is a Chinese online travel agency headquartered in Beijing. Qunar means "Where to go" in Chinese.
Trip.com is an online travel agency owned by Trip.com Group. Its website and mobile app can be used to book flights,hotels,trains,car rentals,airport transfers,tours,and attraction tickets.
Booking Holdings Inc. is an American travel technology company incorporated under Delaware General Corporation Law and based in Norwalk,Connecticut,that owns and operates several travel fare aggregators and travel fare metasearch engines including namesake and flagship Booking.com,Priceline.com,Agoda,Kayak,Cheapflights,Rentalcars.com,Momondo,and OpenTable. It operates websites in about 40 languages and 200 countries.
Naspers Limited is a South African multinational internet,technology and multimedia holding company headquartered in Cape Town,with interests in online retail,publishing and venture capital investment. Naspers' principal shareholder is its Dutch listed investment subsidiary Prosus,which owns approximately 49% of its parent as part of a cross ownership structure.
redBus is an online bus ticket booking company that provides bus ticket booking through its website and iOS and Android mobile apps. redBus India is headquartered in Bangalore and works like a hub,acting as a medium for a network of more than 3500 bus operators,across the countries of India,Malaysia,Indonesia,Singapore,Peru,and Colombia. It claims to have registered over 180 million trips,with a customer base of over 20 million. In 2018,the company achieved a GMV of ₹50 billion,with a 70% share in the Indian online bus ticketing segment.
Navan is an online travel management,corporate card and expense management company.
Gogobot was an online travel business headquartered in Palo Alto,California. The company was rebranded Trip.com in November 2016 and acquired by the Ctrip Group in 2017. Founded in 2010,by Travis Katz and Ori Zaltzman,by 2014 the company was the fifth most visited travel-planning site in the United States.
Travis Katz is an American technology entrepreneur and investor. He is currently the General Manager of Shopping for YouTube. Katz served as the President and CEO of GM-backed electric vehicle maker BrightDrop,co-founded Fox Interactive Media,led the global expansion of social networking site MySpace,and was co-founder and CEO of online travel site Trip.com,which was acquired by CTrip in 2017.
Aviasales is a travel metasearch platform with a monthly audience exceeding 15 million users. As a metasearch,Aviasales does not sell air tickets,but redirects users to airline and online travel agent websites. The service was launched in 2007 and now operates in 14 countries across Eastern Europe,the CIS,Asia,and the United States. The company was incorporated in Hong Kong in August 2011 as Go Travel Un Limited and is headquartered on the island of Phuket,Thailand. In 2019,Skift ranked Aviasales among the top 25 most promising travel startups.
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