{"id":1626,"date":"2023-06-25T18:41:15","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T01:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/?p=1626"},"modified":"2023-06-25T18:41:15","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T01:41:15","slug":"expedia-and-booking-com-own-most-all-of-the-online-travel-web-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2023\/06\/25\/expedia-and-booking-com-own-most-all-of-the-online-travel-web-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"Expedia and Booking.com own most all of the online travel web sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Although dozens of travel-booking websites seem to fight one another for our travel dollars, what looks like healthy competition is actually an illusion. <strong>Agoda, Booking.com, Expedia, Hotels.com, Hotwire, Kayak, Momondo, Orbitz, Priceline, Travelocity, Trivago, and many others are owned by travel giants Expedia, Inc. or Booking Holdings<\/strong>, which together dominate the third-party online hotel-booking business.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/komonews.com\/news\/consumer\/how-to-find-best-hotel-room-rates-prices-hotels-vacation-travel-agencies-summer-customers-avoid-hidden-fees-third-party-websites-deals-expedia-priceline-bookings#\">Hotel intel: How to find the best rates for rooms | KOMO<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a duopoly and the hotels voluntarily fix the prices such that they are generally the same price regardless of where you book the room. Second, many properties tack on &#8220;hidden fees&#8221; after you make your choices (watch out for Wi-Fi and &#8220;resort&#8221; fees).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although dozens of travel-booking websites seem to fight one another for our travel dollars, what looks like healthy competition is actually an illusion. Agoda, Booking.com, Expedia, Hotels.com, Hotwire, Kayak, Momondo,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accommodations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}