Expedia News

It looks like Expedia is on an acquisitions run, but this time it's focused on B2B.

In her seven years heading Expedia B2B before becoming CEO in 2024, you can imagine Ariane Gorin feeling that the unit had so much unrealized potential. While Booking Holdings might be the much larger business, Gorin is trying to show that Expedia B2B is the secret sauce.

Is Expedia reverting to the deal appetite it displayed in 2015 when it acquired Travelocity, Orbitz and Homeaway? After acquiring Tiqets in February, Expedia could be looking to make another B2B move.

Expedia was the company that acquired Tiqets. Airbnb didn't buy the experiences brand, but seems to have made a solid return on its Tiqets investment when it cashed out.

Expedia’s B2B engine is proving the partner model works. The catch: It is still the smaller business, and AI is not yet big enough to change that.

Khosrowshahi said there's the usual tension with partners about Uber's travel ambitions, and he obliquely cited Expedia's shortcomings post-booking. If Uber gains traction in travel, you can expect Khosrowshahi to one day step away from the Expedia board, and all of those conflicts to get exacerbated.

A $6.3 billion take-private closes the books on one of the most convoluted cap tables in travel. The scorecard is not what you’d expect.

American Express Global Business Travel is going private with backing from major AI and tech investors. Despite a travel-tech experienced backer in General Catalyst, Long Lake will have to prove its mettle.

Online travel agencies still dominate how people book travel. But that dominance is starting to face pressure from multiple directions at once.

The math suggests Uber will subsidize hotel booking at a net loss for a subscription fee. Expedia's B2B business growing five times faster than its consumer business tells you who this deal is really for.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​