In travel he bought the rest of Expedia, the rest of Hotels.com and the Hotwire discount-travel site.
ScoreBig sells tickets to games, concerts and plays using an auction model similar to EBay, Hotwire and Priceline.
Imagine if all travel were still booked through travel agents and Expedia, Hotwire, Priceline, etc. did not exist.
Expedia is an online travel agent and earns a commission on travel bookings via Expedia.com, Hotels.com and Hotwire.com.
But, no, this time we booked in advance via the online clearinghouse Hotwire.
The carrier stopped offering its tickets on Orbitz late last year and has also stopped listing on Expedia and Hotwire.
During a five-year stint in the travel industry, he co-founded Hotwire.com and served as vice president of lodging for Expedia.
Hotwire, which sells unsold airline tickets, hotel rooms and rental cars at deeply discounted prices, has a four-star hotel in downtown St.
Current rates in these cities are down 21, 30, 31 and 37 percent respectively compared to last autumn, as measured by hotwire.com.
It operates online travel portals such as expedia.com, hotels.com and hotwire.com that help connect travelers with travel suppliers such as hotels, airlines, cruises and car rental companies.
Forty-one percent of U.S. adults use the majority of their vacation budgets on obligation trips such as weddings, holiday gatherings and reunions, according to a July Hotwire survey.
In first-half 2012, Kayak derived 24%, 10%, and 9% of total sales, respectively, from deals with Expedia (Hotels.com, Hotwire), Priceline and Orbitz (including its CheapTickets and ebooker subsidiaries), according to regulatory filings.
Start by clicking over to Travelocity.com, Orbitz.com, Hotwire.com or Cheaptickets.com (all of which are online travel agencies, or OTAs in industry parlance), and check the "flexible dates" button or link.
ITA's QPX software tool for organizing flight information is used by leading airlines and travel distributors worldwide including Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, Bing, Continental Airlines, Hotwire, Kayak, Orbitz, Southwest Airlines, TripAdvisor, United Airlines, US Airways, Virgin Atlantic Airways and others.
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