Booking.com is owned by Booking Holdings (the United States, NASDAQ: BKNG), which acquired the brand on 1 September 2005.[1][2] Booking.com was founded in 1996 in Amsterdam and was independent until 2005.
Booking.com was founded in Amsterdam in 1996 and is the largest accommodation booking site in the world. Priceline acquired it in 2005 for about $133 million, a price that looks negligible against what the business became, and the parent eventually renamed itself after it.
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Priceline acquired Bookings B.V., the Dutch operator of Booking.com, for about $133 million. The business grew so far beyond its American parent that the group renamed itself Booking Holdings in 2018, so the acquired company ended up naming the acquirer.
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The parent company of Booking.com is Booking Holdings, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Booking.com originated in the Netherlands in 1996, but it is owned today by Booking Holdings, which is headquartered in the United States. So Booking.com is a Dutch-origin brand under American ownership.
Booking Holdings completed its acquisition of Booking.com on 1 September 2005, after announcing the deal on 21 July 2005.
Booking.com was an independent company from its founding in 1996 in Amsterdam until Booking Holdings acquired it in 2005.
Yes. As of 8 September 2026, Booking.com is still owned by Booking Holdings. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
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