Travel

Expedia is one of the biggest web based travel booking agency offering a variety of services include airline tickets, hotel reservations, car rentals, cruises and vacation package deals.  It is based in the US with localized sites for 20 countries including Canada, Japan, India, Singapore,  Australia New Zealand, UK  and many other European countries.  Expedia was first started by Microsoft and is now a publicly traded company.

Priceline.com is a public traded company that facilitates the provision of travel services by its suppliers to its customers to helps users obtain discount rates for travel-related items such as airline tickets and hotel stays. Priceline was the brainchild of digital entrepreneur Jay S. Walker and later purchased by the Hong Kong company Cheung Kong Holdings .

Kayak  is a famous metasearch engine which looks for flights, hotels and rental car rates from hundreds of other websites.  Indeed Kayak aggregates results from various top travel sites, allowing its visitors to compare options and redirects them to one of these sites for reservation.

Yahoo travel is an online travel site offering airline tickets, hotels, cars, cruises and vacation pack reservations.

Orbitz provides customers with an easy way to research, plan and book a broad range of travel products.  It facilitates no less than 1.5 million flight searches and one million hotel searches per day and give users access to some of the lowest fares.

Travelocity is perhaps the second biggest online travel agency offering a variety of travel services, including fare finder, hotel and car rental information.  It operates a full-service business agency with main offices in the USA but also in Canada, Germany, France, the Scandinavian countries, Mexico, India and the United Kingdom. Travelocity sister sites include lastminute.com in Europe and Zuji in Asia as well as other brands such as World Choice Travel, a travel affiliate marketing program, IgoUgo. an online travel community and travel-planning resource, and AllHotels. an online hotel reservation site.

Hotwire is a discount travel website that offers low prices on airfare, hotel, rental cars and vacation packages by selling off unsold travel inventory at discounted prices. It is headquartered in San Francisco and is part of the Expedia group along with hotels.com, ClassicVacations.com and TripAdvisor.com .

Travelzoo is a global Internet media company with no less than 23 million subscribers around the world.  It publishes handpicked sales and special offers from over 2000 travel, entertainment and local companies.  Travelzoo is one of the largest and most trusted publisher of travel, entertainment and local deals with each deal published tested for accuracy, availability and overall ease of the booking process.

Agoda.com  is one of the best online hotel reservation services offering more than 150 thousands of accommodations, a real time booking system and the lowest rates guaranteed .  Agoda has a worldwide reach and is one of the market leader in the Asia Pacific Region with offices in Singapore, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Phuket, Bali, Sydney, Tokyo, Seoul, Beijing, Shanghai and Manila.

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Hostelworld.com is an online booking site offering over 17,000 hostels worldwide and over 1 million customer reviews.

Cheaptickets.com offers a variety of travel services including airline tickets, cruise tickets, auto rentals and  hotel reservations.

LateRooms.com is a hotel reservations website providing accommodation throughout the UK, Europe and the rest of the world.  It offers a wide choice of accommodations with more than 44,000 choices including independent and chain hotels, and has a daily unique visitors average of 231,758.

Skyscanner is perhaps the best flight reservation tool on the web, comparing hundred of airlines across various dates, as well as having various handy tools such as the interactive flight map .  It offers some of the best flights deals worldwide but especially within Europe.