Hotels.com
Information about Hotels.com
Hotels.com provides reservation services for hotel rooms and other places to stay.
The company was founded in Dallas, TX in 1991 as Hotel Reservations Network (HRN) by Dave Litman and Bob Diener as a toll-free telephone service, offering consumers a one-stop source for discounted hotel rooms in major cities. In 2002 HRN introduced Hotels.com and the brand 1-800-2-Hotels.
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The company was founded in Dallas, TX in 1991 as Hotel Reservations Network (HRN) by Dave Litman and Bob Diener as a toll-free telephone service, offering consumers a one-stop source for discounted hotel rooms in major cities. In 2002 HRN introduced Hotels.com and the brand 1-800-2-Hotels.
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CheapTickets is an online travel services company focusing on the leisure market. It sells airline tickets, hotel and condo rentals, rental cars, customized vacation packages, and cruises.
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Expedia.com is an Internet-based travel agency, part of Expedia, Inc.(NASDAQ: EXPE ), headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, USA. It books airline tickets, hotel reservations, car rentals, cruises, vacation packages, and various attractions and services via the World Wide Web
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Farecast.com is the first airfare prediction website in the computer reservations system industry. Farecast premiered to the public in May 2006, and went through a year of beta testing before emerging from beta on May 15th, 2007.
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FlightAware
Private
Founded 2005, Houston, Texas
Headquarters Houston, Texas
Key people Daniel Baker, CEO
Karl Lehenbauer, CTO
David McNett, CIO
Industry Aviation
Website flightaware.
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Private
Founded 2005, Houston, Texas
Headquarters Houston, Texas
Key people Daniel Baker, CEO
Karl Lehenbauer, CTO
David McNett, CIO
Industry Aviation
Website flightaware.
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Airlines of the Web (Flyaow) was the first index of airline sites on the web, and has been online since 1994.[1][2][3] Airlines of the Web was created by University of British Columbia associate professor Marc-David Seidel while conducting research
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FlyerTalk is an Internet forum for discussion of airline frequent flyer programs and business travel and has had more than 8 million posts. Founded in 1998 by Randy Petersen and currently owned by Internet Brands, FlyerTalk includes hotel reviews, forums for discussion of
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Go10000.com is a travel vertical or meta search engine based in Beijing, China. It was founded by George Cao (Cao Zhigang) in October 2004 and operates from the tenth floor of R&D Plaza, a startup farm just off Tsinghua University’s campus in northwestern Beijing
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GotoBus is an Internet travel agency specializing in bus travel. It is owned and operated by IvyMedia Corporation, a privately held company. GotoBus.com sells line run bus tickets, multi-day bus tours, and guided city tours throughout the United States and Canada.
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Hotwire.com™ is a discount travel site offering low rates on airline tickets, hotel rooms, rental cars, cruises and vacation packages by working with travel suppliers to sell excess inventory.
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- IgoUgo is also a term used for a type of turn-based strategy game.
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IXEO Interactive SA
Corporation
Founded Zürich, Switzerland
Headquarters UK, Switzerland, Germany
Key people Graham Leslie, Founder & CEO
Industry Hotel, Travel & Tourism
IXeo
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Corporation
Founded Zürich, Switzerland
Headquarters UK, Switzerland, Germany
Key people Graham Leslie, Founder & CEO
Industry Hotel, Travel & Tourism
IXeo
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Kayak.com is a travel search engine website based in the United States founded in 2004, which information from over 100 other travel sites, and helps find the flight, hotel, cruise, or rental car.
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Lonely Planet Publications
Private (subsidiary of BBC Worldwide)
Genre Travel guides
Founded 1972
Founder Tony Wheeler
Maureen Wheeler
Headquarters Footscray, Victoria, Australia
Area served Worldwide
Industry Publications
Employees 360
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Private (subsidiary of BBC Worldwide)
Genre Travel guides
Founded 1972
Founder Tony Wheeler
Maureen Wheeler
Headquarters Footscray, Victoria, Australia
Area served Worldwide
Industry Publications
Employees 360
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Orbitz LLC
Public
Founded 2001
Headquarters Chicago, Illinois
Industry Travel services
Website www.orbitz.com
Orbitz, Inc. is an Internet travel company headquartered in Chicago.
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Public
Founded 2001
Headquarters Chicago, Illinois
Industry Travel services
Website www.orbitz.com
Orbitz, Inc. is an Internet travel company headquartered in Chicago.
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Opodo is an Internet travel agency website. It is a pan-European enterprise, owned by a consortium of European airlines, including British Airways, Air France, Alitalia, Iberia, KLM, Lufthansa, Aer Lingus, Austrian Airlines and Finnair.
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Priceline.com (NASDAQ: PCLN ) is a commercial website which helps users obtain discount rates for travel-related items such as airline tickets and hotel stays. The company is not a direct supplier of these services; it is similar to a web portal, providing comparative pricing
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Rough Guides Ltd is a large travel guidebook and reference publisher, owned by Pearson PLC. Their travel titles cover more than 200 destinations, and are distributed worldwide through the Penguin Group.
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TripAdvisor, LLC (formerly SeatGuru.com Inc.)
LLC
Founded October 2001
Headquarters Needham, Massachusetts
Industry Travel Website
Website www.seatguru.com
SeatGuru.
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LLC
Founded October 2001
Headquarters Needham, Massachusetts
Industry Travel Website
Website www.seatguru.com
SeatGuru.
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SideStep Inc.
Private
Founded Palo Alto, California, USA (1999)
Headquarters Santa Clara, California, USA
Key people Rob Solomon, President & CEO
Industry Travel Metasearch
Products SideStep Travel Search Website and Downloadable Toolbar
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Private
Founded Palo Alto, California, USA (1999)
Headquarters Santa Clara, California, USA
Key people Rob Solomon, President & CEO
Industry Travel Metasearch
Products SideStep Travel Search Website and Downloadable Toolbar
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Site59.com was launched in May 2000 by travel and tourism professionals from The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and was further developed and backed by iFormation Group, a partnership between BCG, Goldman Sachs and General Atlantic Partners.
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Transport Direct is a non-profit web site that provides journey planning information. It is funded by the UK Department for Transport, the Welsh Assembly Government and the Scottish Executive. It is operated by a consortium lead by Atos Origin.
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travbuddy.com is a social networking Web site specializing in connecting travellers. The site was created by brothers Eric Bjorndahl and David Bjorndahl and launched in 2005 by TravBuddy LLC, a privately owned company.
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A travel journal, or road journal or travelogue, is an initially blank book carried by a traveler for the purpose of documenting a journey. Clippings, tokens, or tickets may be included as they are collected. The journal may also include notes written by acquaintances.
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Travelocity is an online travel agency operated by Travelocity.com LP. Travelocity is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sabre Holdings Corporation, which was a publicly traded company until taken private by Silver Lake Partners in March 2007.
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TripAdvisor.com is a free travel guide and research website that offers reviews and information to help plan a vacation.
Users research potential locales and attractions to visit, and hotels to book, primarily by browsing the thousands of reviews posted on the
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Viator, Spain
Coordinates:
Municipality AlmerÃa
Government
- Mayor Cristóbal Urrutia Cruz (PSOE)
Area
- City 21 km (8.
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Coordinates:
Municipality AlmerÃa
Government
- Mayor Cristóbal Urrutia Cruz (PSOE)
Area
- City 21 km (8.
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Vegas.com LLC
Private company
Founded 1998, incorporated 1998
Headquarters Henderson, Nevada, USA
Key people Howard Lefkowitz, President
John Keast, COO
Industry Travel Solutions
Ticketing Solutions
Online Commerce
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Private company
Founded 1998, incorporated 1998
Headquarters Henderson, Nevada, USA
Key people Howard Lefkowitz, President
John Keast, COO
Industry Travel Solutions
Ticketing Solutions
Online Commerce
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Venere Net is an internet based hotel reservations company. Venere.com serves online hotel bookings to consumers in English, Italian, German, Spanish, French an Japanese via its consumer web site, its affiliates and its call center.
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Virtualtourist (VT) is a free, travel-oriented community website featuring user-contributed travel guides for locations worldwide.
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