Expedia Group

Expedia Group, Inc. is an American travel technology company that owns and operates travel fare aggregators and travel metasearch engines. Its brands, including Expedia, Hotels.com and Vrbo, cover hotels, vacation rentals, packages and flights. It connects travelers, partners and advertisers in a single marketplace.

Its headquarters are in Seattle, Washington, and it has 16,500 employees. Its services reach travelers in more than 70 countries. Over 3.5 million lodging facilities and flights on over 500 airlines are bookable on its websites. It is listed on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol EXPE.

Expedia was founded as a division of Microsoft in October 1996 and spun off into a public company in 1999. IAC acquired a controlling interest in 2001 and the remainder in 2003, then spun the company off in August 2005. It became Expedia Group in 2018.