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Most people still think Hotels.com, Vrbo, Travelocity, Hotwire.com, Orbitz, Ebookers, CheapTickets, CarRentals.com, Wotif, and Trivago are separate companies, y
by coldcode 3y ago
Most people still think Hotels.com, Vrbo, Travelocity, Hotwire.com, Orbitz, Ebookers, CheapTickets, CarRentals.com, Wotif, and Trivago are separate companies, yet they are just Expedia brands and sell Expedia inventory. For the most part, all of them exist only as marketing brands and use the Expedia backend. I used to work for one of those brands and when we were all laid off during the transition, we were not allowed to tell our customers the brand was becoming Expedia.
- scarface_74 3y agoIt’s right on their website that these are Expedia brands. https://welcome.expediagroup.com/en/about-us/about-expedia-group-travel-brands https://welcome.expediagroup.com/en/about-us/about-expedia-g... On the other hand, there are other companies not owned by Expedia who use their backend like AmexTravel.
- newhotelowner 3y agoit's not on hotels.com The majority of the guest don't know about it.
- yoden 3y agoIt's right there on the about us page: https://www.hotels.com/lp/b/about_us?pos=HCOM_US&locale=en_US&siteid=300000001 https://www.hotels.com/lp/b/about_us?pos=HCOM_US&locale=en_U... If you're a member they've been sending emails about how they're merging the rewards with Expedia's reward system. Perhaps you're right that most guests don't pay enough attention to realize, but it's not a secret.
- newhotelowner 3y agoit's not visible to the guest. Sure you can look for it but that's not what visitors do.