Who owns Hotels.com?
Hotels.com is owned by Expedia Group (the United States, NASDAQ: EXPE).[1]
Evidence: Expedia Group, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-02-13, SEC EDGAR, 13 February 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Expedia Group, Inc. verified
- Owner HQ
- 🇺🇸 United States, Seattle, Washington
- Origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Founded
- 1991
- Category
- Internet & digital › Online travel › Online travel agencies
- Parent ticker
- NASDAQ: EXPE
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Hotels.com
Hotels.com began in 1991 as a telephone reservation service called Hotel Reservations Network and moved online as the web grew. Its loyalty scheme, which gave a free night after ten stays, was unusually simple in a category built on opaque points, and it is now part of Expedia Group.
What Expedia Group's annual report says about Hotels.com
Sentences about Hotels.com from Expedia Group's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
As part of our platform operating model strategy, we migrated both the Hotels.com and Vrbo front-end stacks onto the Brand Expedia stack and created one unified front-end stack in 2023, which increases our test-and-learn capacity and feature release velocity while also providing a scalable and efficient base to operate upon.
While we maintain a large portfolio of consumer brands, we put the majority of our marketing efforts towards our three core consumer brands: Expedia, Hotels.com, and Vrbo.
In aggregate, we put the majority of our marketing efforts towards our three core consumer brands: Expedia, Hotels.com and Vrbo.
How often Expedia Group names Hotels.com in its annual report
A plain count of the times the name appears in the text of each annual report, not counting the start of a sentence. A brand that an owner writes about more is usually one it treats as central. The brand is named less often than it was three years earlier.
Ownership timeline of Hotels.com
- Current owner Expedia Group [1] verified
Where Hotels.com sits in Expedia Group
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Expedia Group
Expedia Group controls 9 brands on Brandtree, 9 of them in internet & digital.
Also in internet & digital
- CheapTickets (1986)
- ebookers (1996)
- Expedia (1996)
- Hotwire (2000)
- Orbitz (2001)
- Travelocity (1996)
- trivago (2005)
- Vrbo (1995)
Other brands in online travel agencies, and who owns them
Expedia Group has more brands in online travel agencies on Brandtree than any other owner: 7 of 42.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Corporate Traveller | Flight Centre Travel Group | 🇦🇺 Australia |
| Bravofly | lastminute.com Group | 🇳🇱 Netherlands |
| Agoda | Booking Holdings | 🇺🇸 United States |
| eDreams | eDreams ODIGEO | 🇪🇸 Spain |
| Goibibo | MakeMyTrip | 🇮🇳 India |
| Kurz Mal Weg | HomeToGo | 🇱🇺 Luxembourg |
| Ctrip | Trip.com Group | 🇨🇳 China |
| Cozmo Travel | Air Arabia | 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates |
About the owner: Expedia Group
Expedia Group is a publicly listed company headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States, founded in 1996. Brandtree records 9 brands under its control, and it is listed as NASDAQ: EXPE.
Expedia began in 1996 as a division of Microsoft, was spun out in 1999, and passed through Barry Diller's IAC before becoming independent again in 2005. It owns most of the American online travel brands that appear to compete with each other, which is why comparing Expedia against Hotels.com and Orbitz compares three products from one company.
Expedia Group: full profile, brands and acquisition history →
🇺🇸 Hotels.com and other American brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,549 brands that began in the United States. 478 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Hotels.com is not one of them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Hotels.com?
The parent company of Hotels.com is Expedia Group, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is Hotels.com American?
Yes. Hotels.com originated in the United States in 1991 and its owner, Expedia Group, is also headquartered in the United States.
Is Hotels.com still owned by Expedia Group?
Yes. As of 10 October 2026, Hotels.com is still owned by Expedia Group. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Expedia Group, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-02-13 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 13 February 2026; retrieved 16 September 2026.
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