Booking.com

Booking.com
Type of businessSubsidiary
Type of site
Travel and accommodation services
Available in43 languages
Founded1996; 28 years ago (1996)
Enschede, Netherlands
HeadquartersAmsterdam, Netherlands
Area servedGlobal
OwnerBooking Holdings
CEOGlenn Fogel
IndustryTravel agency
ParentBooking Holdings
URLbooking.com
CommercialYes
RegistrationOptional
Launched1996; 28 years ago (1996)
Current statusOnline
Booking.com's head office in Amsterdam

Booking.com is one of the largest online travel agencies.[1][2] It is headquartered in Amsterdam, and is a subsidiary of Booking Holdings. Booking.com provides lodging reservation services for approximately 3.4 million properties, including 475,000 hotels, motels, and resorts and 2.9 million homes, apartments in over 220 countries and territories and in over 40 languages. It also sells flights in 55 markets and tours and activities in more than 1,300 cities.[1] Hotel partners have reported not being paid for months at a time, leaving small hoteliers out of pocket.[3]

  1. ^ a b "Booking Holdings 2023 Annual Report Form (10-K)". U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. 22 February 2024.
  2. ^ Harger, Jim (25 August 2015). "Booking.com signs 10-year lease for its growing global contact center in Wyoming". Advance Publications.
  3. ^ Taylor, Josh. "Travel website Booking.com leaves hoteliers thousands of dollars out of pocket". The Guardian. The Guardian. Retrieved 22 July 2024.