Booking Holdings

Booking Holdings is an American travel technology company that owns and operates several travel fare aggregators and metasearch engines. It provides online travel and related services to consumers and local partners in more than 220 countries and territories. Its five primary consumer brands are Booking.com, Priceline, Agoda, KAYAK and OpenTable. Subsidiary brands include Rocketmiles, Fareharbor, HotelsCombined, Cheapflights and Momondo.

Booking Holdings is headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut. It has more than 24,000 employees across offices around the world. It operates in over 220 countries and territories and 40+ languages. The company primarily derives its revenue from commissions, with a small portion from advertising.

Jay S. Walker founded Priceline.com Incorporated in Stamford, Connecticut, in 1996. In July 2005, it acquired Booking.com for $133 million. In February 2018, it changed its name to Booking Holdings and adopted the Nasdaq ticker symbol BKNG.