Booking Holdings
Online travel & related services company
Booking Holdings Inc. is an American travel technology company based in Norwalk, Connecticut, that owns and operates several travel fare aggregators and travel fare metasearch engines including namesake and flagship Booking.com, Priceline.com, Agoda, Kayak, Cheapflights, Rentalcars.com, Momondo, and OpenTable. It operates websites in about 40 languages and 200 countries.
The company is ranked 243rd on the Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by revenue. The company primarily derives its revenue from commissions, with a small portion derived from advertising. In 2023, consumers booked 1.235 billion room nights of accommodation, 88 million rental car days, and 68 million airplane tickets using websites owned by Booking Holdings.
History
In 1996, Jay S. Walker founded Priceline.com Incorporated in Stamford, Connecticut, which launched Priceline.com, an online travel site, that used a Name Your Own Price bidding model.
On March 31, 1999, Priceline.com Incorporated became a public company via an initial public offering, making Walker, who owned a 35% stake in the company, a multi-billionaire. The company's original ticker symbol was "PCLN".
The company experimented with selling other products and services such as groceries, gasoline, home mortgages, and cars, but these offerings were discontinued in 2000.
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